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Unusually Large Absol Looming Over the Countryside
Ynaa the unusually large Absol is back again and bigger than she's ever been!
What we have here is Ynaa deciding to test herself and see how big she can get (Hint: This isn't anywhere close to her limit). Thankfully for the people in those cities, Ynaa is a mostly gentle giant. She won't intentionally cause large amounts of property damage and would feel terrible if she hurt someone. She does, however, quite enjoy being big and seeing how her smallest actions at these sizes can have devastating effects on the landscape.
I also decided to give Ynaa some stylized braids ended with beads/jewels so that her front is more interesting and because I'm trying to come up with ways to make my characters look more unique beyond just their glowing markings. It's occurred to me that aside from those markings and the eye colors, my characters (with the exception of Experiment b424) are fairly typical in appearance. I want to come up with a-few more things for each character so that you can see one of them and instantly know it's this particular character and not just another random Zoroark/Absol/Weavile/Lucario/Delphox. In Ynaa's case I do have a-couple more ideas, but let's just say she hasn't developed yet to a point for her to have those accoutrements.
So as usual, I tried some new things this time. Tweaked my shading approach again, changed the glow layer to "Add Glow", used gradients on the sky, water, and landscape to try and make them more interesting, and also added extra little features to them also for that purpose of making them more interesting.
I'm still iffy on the shading, but I think I'm getting there.
I also just want to say that drawing an Absol from the front is surprisingly difficult. And those eyes... I must have redrawn them a dozen times and I'm still kind of meh on them.
One last thing: Would you say this is gigamacro or megamacro? I'm leaning more towards gigamacro since I tend to think of megamacro as being around the size of a mountain. The way I think of it, gigamacro goes anywhere from the size of a state or most countries up to maybe the size of an average continent? I really am curious what you all think is the range for each.
[EDIT - Typo]
~ More of Ynaa the Unusually Large Absol ~
Pokemon and Absol belong to Nintendo and Game Freak
Thanks for the view and as always, questions, comments, thoughts, suggestions, and critiques are welcome!
What we have here is Ynaa deciding to test herself and see how big she can get (Hint: This isn't anywhere close to her limit). Thankfully for the people in those cities, Ynaa is a mostly gentle giant. She won't intentionally cause large amounts of property damage and would feel terrible if she hurt someone. She does, however, quite enjoy being big and seeing how her smallest actions at these sizes can have devastating effects on the landscape.
I also decided to give Ynaa some stylized braids ended with beads/jewels so that her front is more interesting and because I'm trying to come up with ways to make my characters look more unique beyond just their glowing markings. It's occurred to me that aside from those markings and the eye colors, my characters (with the exception of Experiment b424) are fairly typical in appearance. I want to come up with a-few more things for each character so that you can see one of them and instantly know it's this particular character and not just another random Zoroark/Absol/Weavile/Lucario/Delphox. In Ynaa's case I do have a-couple more ideas, but let's just say she hasn't developed yet to a point for her to have those accoutrements.
So as usual, I tried some new things this time. Tweaked my shading approach again, changed the glow layer to "Add Glow", used gradients on the sky, water, and landscape to try and make them more interesting, and also added extra little features to them also for that purpose of making them more interesting.
I'm still iffy on the shading, but I think I'm getting there.
I also just want to say that drawing an Absol from the front is surprisingly difficult. And those eyes... I must have redrawn them a dozen times and I'm still kind of meh on them.
Link to the full size picture for anyone interested
https://www.dropbox.com/s/u8x6yrho5vk70u1/Ynaa_Continental_Looming_Full.png?dl=0One last thing: Would you say this is gigamacro or megamacro? I'm leaning more towards gigamacro since I tend to think of megamacro as being around the size of a mountain. The way I think of it, gigamacro goes anywhere from the size of a state or most countries up to maybe the size of an average continent? I really am curious what you all think is the range for each.
[EDIT - Typo]
~ More of Ynaa the Unusually Large Absol ~
Pokemon and Absol belong to Nintendo and Game Freak
Thanks for the view and as always, questions, comments, thoughts, suggestions, and critiques are welcome!
Category All / Macro / Micro
Species Pokemon
Size 1600 x 1600px
File Size 2.2 MB
Toeing the line between macro and megamacro?
Fully agree with you on the gigamacro being continent and terramacro being planet, but I've always seen the line between macro and megamacro being at a-little past skyscraper sized (let's say roughly half-a-mile). And then megamacro extending for a larger (heh) range but usually sitting around the size of a mountain.
Hmmmmm.... I do think you're right, though, that this is more megamacro than gigamacro. I think I'm letting my original plan for a clear gigamacro (which changed about half-way through the picture) influence me.
It's interesting learning how others define these macro classifications and comparing notes.
I feel like I remember seeing something over on Deviant Art a-few years ago where someone decided to put down specific ranges complete with numbers for each class of macro (all the way beyond universal) but now I can't find it...
Fully agree with you on the gigamacro being continent and terramacro being planet, but I've always seen the line between macro and megamacro being at a-little past skyscraper sized (let's say roughly half-a-mile). And then megamacro extending for a larger (heh) range but usually sitting around the size of a mountain.
Hmmmmm.... I do think you're right, though, that this is more megamacro than gigamacro. I think I'm letting my original plan for a clear gigamacro (which changed about half-way through the picture) influence me.
It's interesting learning how others define these macro classifications and comparing notes.
I feel like I remember seeing something over on Deviant Art a-few years ago where someone decided to put down specific ranges complete with numbers for each class of macro (all the way beyond universal) but now I can't find it...
In the first place, it is sometimes difficult to quantify size in macro images, because (ironically) a lot of macro art, and some writing, does not give enough information about size (I assume that we've all read a macro story where we've stopped to try to figure out how big a character is) or gives contradictory indicators to size (should the "city" consisting of 5 skyscrapers in the middle of nowhere have its "real" size calculated from its spread on the ground, or from its height?).
Were you to ask everybody who is interested, I don't think that you would find a more specific definition of "mega macro" beyond "more macro than regular macro." I've personally taken to thinking of its lower boundary as that size that prevents reasonable interaction with anyone of a real-life normal size. Maybe it's confirmation bias, but it's hard for me to think of a non-POV image that I've seen called "mega macro" but still shows small people - maybe where they're little dots? It seems like my sense of size is quite subjective - show me a macro next to a building, and I might not think that it's too big (seeing big buildings more often in that context than in real life does part of this, I think), but show me it next to a person who is only a dot, and I'll think that it's very big.
Gigamacro likewise seems to be "more macro than mega macro." If the primary thing you interact with as a mega macro is a city, as a giga it's the land itself, in the same way that as a mega macro, you interact with cities instead of individual people (and buildings?). So, by my definition, this image seems like a good example of giga macro.
Teramacro always seems to come into relevance only when I start thinking about "the planet" as an object instead of a concept that supposedly (in that I "know" it but do not "feel" it) describes the real form of the ground.
A lot of people seem to use "mega" to describe anything beyond normal, including giga and tera, and there are who others make no distinction between "giga" and "tera" and describe everything beyond mega as "giga". I suppose that there's not an issue of nonstandard meaning if they don't use the words at all, though.
It'd be interesting to see what the distribution of sizes is in images where that can be objectively-enough determined. I wonder if it's smooth, or if there are significant dips.
Were you to ask everybody who is interested, I don't think that you would find a more specific definition of "mega macro" beyond "more macro than regular macro." I've personally taken to thinking of its lower boundary as that size that prevents reasonable interaction with anyone of a real-life normal size. Maybe it's confirmation bias, but it's hard for me to think of a non-POV image that I've seen called "mega macro" but still shows small people - maybe where they're little dots? It seems like my sense of size is quite subjective - show me a macro next to a building, and I might not think that it's too big (seeing big buildings more often in that context than in real life does part of this, I think), but show me it next to a person who is only a dot, and I'll think that it's very big.
Gigamacro likewise seems to be "more macro than mega macro." If the primary thing you interact with as a mega macro is a city, as a giga it's the land itself, in the same way that as a mega macro, you interact with cities instead of individual people (and buildings?). So, by my definition, this image seems like a good example of giga macro.
Teramacro always seems to come into relevance only when I start thinking about "the planet" as an object instead of a concept that supposedly (in that I "know" it but do not "feel" it) describes the real form of the ground.
A lot of people seem to use "mega" to describe anything beyond normal, including giga and tera, and there are who others make no distinction between "giga" and "tera" and describe everything beyond mega as "giga". I suppose that there's not an issue of nonstandard meaning if they don't use the words at all, though.
It'd be interesting to see what the distribution of sizes is in images where that can be objectively-enough determined. I wonder if it's smooth, or if there are significant dips.
Hmmm... I kind-of like that way of distinguishing macro/megamacro/gigamacro based on what they are interacting with most. MiniMacro - people and small buildings / Macro - large buildings and skyscrapers / Megamacro - entire cities / Gigamacro - landscapes.
Even those can be kind-of nebulous, though. For example, what would you consider a macro that can pick up and hold an individual skyscraper in their hand? Technically, that's interacting with a skyscraper, but I'd consider that as more of a megamacro because this rather large individual is in the 3-10ish mile range and capable of "interacting" with huge swaths of a city all at once.
Even those can be kind-of nebulous, though. For example, what would you consider a macro that can pick up and hold an individual skyscraper in their hand? Technically, that's interacting with a skyscraper, but I'd consider that as more of a megamacro because this rather large individual is in the 3-10ish mile range and capable of "interacting" with huge swaths of a city all at once.
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