I would have argued at the time I did that drawing that the front sections of the body looked so small because of perspective distortion from it being so crazy big, but it turns out that the cinematic model actually looks like this, i./URpJ92B.jpg, and Blizzard actually had it much smaller than I had guessed. It also turns out the cinematic Leviathan model for that cutscene is actually a completely different shape than the one we see far more of in-game, in wallpapers, etc. If any of the in-engine cutscene shots imply they are moon sized, I attribute it to their constant use a of forced perspective and weirdly-scaled things, never actually using full-sized planets for example because the draw distance and lighting / rendering setup for that kind of shot would be ridiculous. Leviathans definitely can't be moon-sized as in the HotS intro, as well as on planets like Zerus Kerrigan's Leviathan fits very comfortably in atmosphere, even below clouds. Honestly the game and surrounding media is not 100% consistent, but I will stand by most of these sizes. It just won't be all Blizzard approved stuff.) This one has the Blizzard-official sizes and much more polished artwork from the Field Manual, but I still plan to have another version with all the hero units like the Odin added in. (If you are wondering, 'What happened to all of the extra units from the single player campaigns, or the retro Brood War designs? I remember there being more,' I'm splitting the chart up into two versions. And you can see that the art is much more polished than in previous versions.

Here you can zoom in and get a much better look at the artwork, and there's a lot less empty space than some of my early online versions. As you can see from all the different units' shapes and the fact that each race's units take up a different amount of space, formatting this for book pages is quite tricky. The version in the book itself had the formatting and a bit of color correction done by Insight Editions. These images were also on display at BlizzCon 2015, which was an honor. If you are interested, here is a short interview Blizzard did with me about the charts and my involvement with StarCraft art in general. We never discussed an official size for the Liberator while working on the book, for example, because it hadn't been created yet.)ĭownloading the full size, 5200x9325 image is necessary! (It also features the few multiplayer units that were omitted from the book, so it's like 98% official. The 'official,' authoritative version, featuring all the units at their Blizzard-approved sizes from Insight Editions' StarCraft Field Manual!

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