MetaBallStudios is back with an amazing 3D animated video showing comparisons of fictional starships size. Alvaro Gracia Montoya is the 3D animator behind MetaBallStudios. He’s built a reputation for his comparison videos that follow a rigorous process for accuracy. From Pokemon to asteroids to black holes, MetaBallStudios creates fascinating videos which bring both real and fictional worlds to scale.
Now MetaBallStudios has created one of their best videos to date. The “Fictional Starships Size Comparison” video improves on their first 3D starship comparison video uploaded to their YouTube channel five years ago. While the original is still interesting to watch, the new starship sizes video is a vast improvement in terms of 3D animation and the number of ships featured. The old video was 3:38 minutes and the new starship comparison video is 12:35 minutes because of the many starships included.
The video starts with the smallest ship clocking in at just 30 cm and works up from there. The video features dozens of starships spanning different genres: science-fiction, fantasy, video games, anime, and animated series. Of course, classic starships are represented like the USS Enterprise from Star Trek, the Millennium Falcon from Star Wars, the Bebop from Cowboy Beebop, and even the Planet Express ship from Futurama.
Interspersed among the fictional starships size comparisons are some actual flying vehicles like the Space Shuttle, SpaceX Dragon 2, and a commercial airliner that flies through the wings of the Romulan D’deridex-class warship from Star Trek: the Next Generation. The IRL vehicles offers a glimpse of the enormous scale of the fictional starships.
In fact, the dozens of starships shown helps the viewer to get a realistic sense of scale of these ships. Just when you think you’ve seen the largest ships, like the Battlestar Galactica (1.4 km) or Imperial star destroyer (1.6 km), even bigger ships enter the screen. In fact, those two ships make their appearance before the video is halfway through.
The fictional starships size video is surprising by blowing up misconceptions about starship sizes. Closer to the middle of the video we see the Axiom from Wall-E, which is larger than we expected at 4.5 km. And then we see The Lexx at 10 km in length. From there the starships get bigger and bigger. Even when the video gets to the Death Star 2 at 200 km, it’s still nowhere near the largest ship.
There are many more starships in the video. Instead of listing them all and spoiling the surprise, watch the video below.
