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Estimating the heights of the Elliott from Earth characters: a normal and useful pastime

We’re gonna start with Elliott because he’s the main character and therefore acts as the “height scale” for other things. Also there’s only two human characters here, and when it comes to stylization I feel like he’s a biiittt more typical proportions-wise.

Using an Earth object to measure, at first I was gonna use the convenience store counter (those are 36 or so inches) but it was hard to get a good shot with it, so I tried the coffee table (usually around 18 inches) and it checked out, even aligned with the counter’s supposed size at roughly half of its height

So using the coffee table shot above as our standard, I stacked the table on top of itself until it was as tall as him, and it came cleanly out to about 3 tables:

Around 54 inches, or 4 foot 6 inches (about 137 cm)! Within the average for his age and species, though definitely a little on the shorter side.

Okay, now it gets a bit weird. Because of cartoon stylization and all, although Elliott’s height measured with the table made sense, using that for the other characters gets some weirdly superhuman results.

So it gets a little less visually literal or exactly calculated from here…

It was kinda hard to find a good standard comparing Elliott and Frankie’s heights, there’s some slight inconsistency (usually to have them both be within the center of a shot where they’re standing together) or otherwise it’s shots where one is leaning, one is further back than the other, etc. But in general Elliott comes up to about the collar-to-shoulder area for her:

So how tall in total is a human who is about 4.5 feet at that shoulderblade height??

With some basic online height comparison chart tools (I tried multiple for accuracy) it roughly estimated the 5’7” range would align with that best. So somewhat on the taller side for her!

For Mo we can’t rely on estimating through basic human proportions anymore, since he’s a weird dinosaur (also his posture can vary a lot). The good news: he’s generally near halfway between the other two heights so it’s pretty easy to just get a rough average from those.

The rough halfway point between the other two heights is around 5 feet (152 or so cm), maybe a little bit more (especially seeing where he aligns with the humans’ proportions). Either way that is very below average for a stegosaur but we love him for it.

THE END! I put too much work into that

(Originally posted on Twitter lol)

#elliott from earth #cartoon network #elliot from earth #cartoons #this is so stupid

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