VFX Artist Reveals TRUE Scale of Attack on Titan!

oh hey wow thanks for joining me i'm starting to get pretty lonely in here i just wanted to talk about my favorite anime attack on titan it's a brutal story about the last of humanity living behind massive walls that protect their civilization because on the other side are horrifying giant monsters called titans whose only desire in life is to eat people alive they're also incredibly weird in fact they tend to be straight up comically bizarre these big-eyed creatures are not the classic monsters you might be used to seeing though it's exactly their uncanny nature that makes these titans so effectively terrifying but in today's video i wanted to give you a taste of what it would really look like if titans were real i'll do my best to avoid story spoilers and we'll only be pulling from the anime shown so far as opposed to the manga source material so you won't be sending any fish bones here the titans range from 3 meters tall to 15 meters tall and usually generally humanoid in shape the proportions can be kind of crazy i mean just take a look at this gluttonous dude right here look at him oh no oh no oh no oh no oh no but a cool twist to this type of story comes from the addition of what are called titan shifters they're people who can turn into massive specialized titans at will and these titans oh man they are awesome they're basically giant mech suits the same that you'd see in pacific rim or gundam wing or even power rangers but these guys are fleshy they even have their own little fleshy pilot cabins it's the idea of a mech suit as a superpower and when they fight they tend to reduce their surroundings to rubble so they're obviously really big by the nature of them being animated it's kind of hard to discern their true scale how big are these titans really well the show often reminds us exactly what the scale of the world is it's got to be 14 meters seven meter titan 17 meters tall two 15 meter titans four meter companion sony we know that the main character aaron yeager has a titan form that is 15 meters tall and if he existed in real life this is what he would look like towering over these industrial buildings of los angeles another titan shifter is aaron's biggest rival the armored titan although much wider and more built he's the same height as the attack titan and the rivalry between these two is pretty awesome you wouldn't want to be anywhere nearby when they start fighting the creator of attack on titan hajime isa yama is said to have designed aaron's titan after the professional fighter yushin okamai and i definitely see the resemblance the attack titan is basically just a bigger version of him and that got me wondering how big humans can actually be for some context okama and i are both about six foot two even though the average male height is about five foot nine levi ackerman on the other hand is five foot three yet despite his short stature he's easily the coolest character in the entire show but to be considered an actual real live giant you have to be at least seven feet tall like the most famous example the kazam legend shaquili o'nealy it is absurdly rare to be as tall as him in fact you are five times more likely to be struck by lightning than to be as tall as shaq but there's only one person who can hold the record for the tallest person of all time and that was robert madlow standing at almost nine feet tall his height made him famous and even toured with the ringling brothers circus perhaps unsurprisingly though he also holds the record for the largest hands and feets of any person in recorded history sadly though his size caused multiple health complications and he ended up dying at the age of 22. the human body struggles to work correctly when it's this big but why is this it's incredibly easy to imagine a giant you just think of a person but bigger the problem is that when you scale something up the physics don't scale up the same way for example strength is determined by the cross-sectional area of something the more cross-sectional area you have the more strength you have it's why bones are easier to break this way than that way however the mass of an object is determined by its volume as an object gets bigger it gets heavier faster then it gets stronger the strength increases by the square but the mass increases by the cube and the difference between these two numbers increases exponentially in physics this is what is called the square cubed law as things get bigger strength just can't keep up with the weight gain so you have to compensate this is the exact reason why elephants have such thick legs to hold up their heavy bodies and it's also the exact reason why the largest animal in the world the blue whale can only exist with the buoyant force of water holding it up attack on titan explains all this away by simply saying the titans weigh a lot less than they should it actually kind of makes sense if you want your titans to realistically hold their shape and considering how fictional the show is it's an appreciated effort now there's one more titan that i haven't talked about yet the largest one the colossal titan [Music] he debuts in the first episode by smashing a hole in the outer wall literally kick-starting the story as a flood of mindless titans enter the city the colossal titan is truly gargantuan it's portrayed as a living skyscraper towering over everything as it lays waste to it all so how big is the colossal titan he's listed at being 60 meters tall that's huge however when we start thinking in relative terms he becomes a little less imposing for example this is a football field and this is the colossal titan at less than 200 feet tall he wouldn't even come close to the full height of the statue of liberty which most new yorkers will tell you isn't really all that big for them it's just that little thing off in the distance you know now here's something that blew my mind remember that little boat that got stuck well the colossal titan could lay down on that ship sideways like i'm talking without sticking out on either side or hanging off at all this really makes the titan look tiny although to be honest i think this is more just a testament to how huge these ships are than anything else i mean this ship is larger than the empire state building and if you want to find out how it got stuck i recommend checking out practical engineering if you've seen godzilla vs king kong you're already familiar with the two most famous titans that humanity has come up with with kong over 100 meters tall and godzilla at 120 meters godzilla is literally twice as tall as the colossal titan and i don't know how to feel about that they would probably just kind of ignore him as a nuisance so then why does the colossal titan appear so colossal we touched on this in an episode of animators react for one the show can get away with things you can't in real life because it's a cartoon you can exaggerate different scales by simply having different field of views for the foreground versus the background also intentionally making something appear larger builds a sense of tension and visual drama when you have to face an unfathomably large opponent they take this even further by making the attack titan appear tiny when he's trying to fight back like he literally looks like this tall like seriously look at him he's barely as tall as the first floor of the building how is any of this to scale a more common example of this idea is the wall surrounding humanity it's a 50 meter wall which is certainly a huge wall as far as walls go however the way it's depicted in the show makes it appear like it's the wall from game of thrones and you'd totally be forgiven for thinking they're the same size however the wall from game of thrones is over four times larger than the wall from attack on titan that's well over three times taller than the colossal titan he would not be able to scale that wall although it is the colossal titan he's a very hot dude maybe he could just lean up against the wall and just melt through it i don't know what i'm saying here listen we've all seen airplanes before you know the boeing 747 imagine leaning that against the wall of attack on titan but now notice how the houses are way smaller than the plane see this is what i'm talking about they say the wall is 50 meters tall but then they visualize it being like 200 meters tall but you know what i get it no one actually cares about the discrepancy and size consistency across multiple levels it's about the emotional impact of the imagery when it comes to anime i would take that any day for the sake of being cooler and more impactful part of why i love attack on titan so much is that regardless of how dark the story can get it's about perseverance it's about not giving up in the face of adversity no matter what happens keep moving [Music] forward ah thank you so much for watching this video i really appreciate you tuning in this one had a lot of cgi in it so i wanted to give our friends at puget systems a shout out because even though we're crunched on time we're able to still make stupid stuff like that i mean there's no reason for this shot to exist and yet there it is and to be completely honest like our whole studios outfitted with puget systems at this point they make our lives so easy like you don't have to know how to build a computer at all and if you do they save you so much time by testing it they figure out the best computer to fit your needs for instance we've got several computers with 30 90s in them now and we even got amd ryzen processors we've got 64 cores ripping all kinds of threads around here so thank you again to puget systems for making that happen and thanks to you for watching this video if you want to share this video that would be the best way to help us and in the meantime try to think about what i should do next time i'm curious to see what you think thank you for watching i'll see in the next one

Channel: Corridor Crew

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Length: 9min 47sec (587 seconds)

Published: Sun May 09 2021

Reddit Comments

[u/ariolander]

Now, this is a video with scale. I realized how inconsistent the show was while watching but appreciated the dramatic effect the forced perspective provided. Good to see context though, really well-executed readers into real life and modern environments.

[u/Professional_Raisin8]

Wren did good

[u/Pokesaurus_Rex]

Unrelated to anime/manga but if you want to learn more about VFX and the entire process I highly recommend their channel.

[u/[deleted]]

They also made a video about S4 animation.

Tldr(other video) :- it says if first 3 seasons are considered at 100%, this season was like at 85%. Which is certainly not bad.

The hate for cgi is overblown imo.

[u/Matrix_A-M]

I've never really thought about inconsistent sizes in shows other than really obvious stuff like Gamagoori in Kill la Kill, but it's a really interesting discussion and I'll definitely be looking out for it more now.

[u/COLDBL4D3]

Whoever made that collosal titan in the ice wall shot should be hired, ya know what i mean?

[u/Vader_360]

That was a great video, thanks for sharing it OP

[u/LordMonday]

kinda unrelated, but i hope in their future anime react vids they do more than just 2 anime. both good and bad ones.