Height Comparison Tool

[TheKillerBs]

A useful tool I found for comparing the heights of people. It's aimed at artists, but I think it might be help authors visualise characters too, especially with differently-sized races such as halflings or giants.

Comparing Heights

 

[glutton]

For fun I decided to compare Cart-Dragger (5'1 MC of the series titled after her) and Strength, one of the 4 imperial generals from the same books (7'0, she is female too BTW). The contrast looks so bae, especially knowing that Cart-Dragger dunks over Strength in ring(basket)ball!

 

[SeverinR]

So a 4 ft character could castrate a 12 ft giant if they leaped. It looks to be mid thigh to the 12ft giant.

 

[mariaerick]

A useful tool I found for comparing the heights of people. It's aimed at artists, but I think it might be help authors visualise characters too, especially with differently-sized races such as halflings or giants.

Comparing Heights

 

[minta]

Thanks for sharing!

 

[xena]

Nice find! That seems really helpful.

 

[Naruzeldamaster]

Lol Adding just 2 feet to the average human height of 6 is already an insane difference.
Most of my races are vaguely humanoid with extra 'features' but I do have giants and dwarfs.
Though my dwarfs would be considered 'tall' for most fantasy dwarfs (and yet they are short for most humanoid species, and are very aware of this)

 

[pmmg]

Yes, an ogre of just 10' towers above a 6' human type, and the tool does not really show the extra bulk. I called one immense in one of my stories, and my editor said it was large enough to be immense...sorry, but yes it is.

 

[Naruzeldamaster]

Yes, an ogre of just 10' towers above a 6' human type, and the tool does not really show the extra bulk. I called one immense in one of my stories, and my editor said it was large enough to be immense...sorry, but yes it is.

Depends on what kind of Ogre though?
Our Boi Shrek is roughly human sized though he does tower over certain humans in his series slightly.
Orcs Must Die has the Orcs having various types/species of them, some human kind, some the giant kind, some tall and lanky etc.
What would really help visualize the height difference, a background image behind the humans of different building types.
1 Story house, two story house etc

I don't think my Giants are much bigger than average humans, ranging 9-15 feet, my Orcs/Ogres are around human size but they do have that bulk, and yes, the bulk counts as part of their scale.

My Dwarves are in a weird spot. They range from what you typically 'expect' a dwarf to be sized at, to 'almost' human sized, but still laughably short for a human like. They just can't win.

The Fae in my story are bigger than most would depict them (they're enormous compared to say, the ones in say Ferngully) but they can also briefly transform into human versions of themselves.

 

[El_d_ray]

If only it used metric system, or at least had two options for units.

 

[CupofJoe]

Try this
https://www.mrinitialman.com/OddsEnds/Sizes/compsizes.xhtml
It is a link from the first site.
Up to six at once, feet and inches and metric and the figures are larger,

 

[pmmg]

Metric system? Whats that?

 

[El_d_ray]

Try this
https://www.mrinitialman.com/OddsEnds/Sizes/compsizes.xhtml
It is a link from the first site.
Up to six at once, feet and inches and metric and the figures are larger,

Fantastic, thank you!

 

[mariaerick]

Lol Adding just 2 feet to the average human height of 6 is already an insane difference.
Most of my races are vaguely humanoid with extra 'features' but I do have giants and dwarfs.
Though my dwarfs would be considered 'tall' for most fantasy dwarfs (and yet they are short for most humanoid species, and are very aware of this)

Haha, true
If you want to see how insane that difference really is, you should give heightcomparisonchart. com
a try—it makes giants, dwarfs, and “tall-for-their-race” characters much easier to visualize side by side.

 

[Naruzeldamaster]

Haha, true
If you want to see how insane that difference really is, you should give heightcomparisonchart. com
a try—it makes giants, dwarfs, and “tall-for-their-race” characters much easier to visualize side by side.

My dwarfs are on average about 3-4 feet tall, so not like, short short but like, shorter than most humanoids, and god forbid your genes bless you to be taller than other dwarfs, because even then you'd still be 'short' for a humanoid species (Never mind the giants) and my DND dwarf character (I am saving him for if I ever play DND) is a play on this, he 'towers' over his own species but he's still short for humans, brother just can't win haha. (unless you challenge him to a sword fight, then you might be in trouble)