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... the contrast gets epic:
Video, by the way, by Terry Shuriken, whose Second Life avatar is "somewhere between 1/3rd or 1/4th of an inch tall." Not quite sure who this particularly titanic avatar is, but this type has been measured as up to 200 feet tall.
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cool!
Posted by: irihapeti | Wednesday, June 03, 2015 at 02:22 PM
Beautifully done... but could there perhaps be a longer version that zooms out enough to show the larger avatar's scale in comparison with the surroundings?
Posted by: Melissa Yeuxdoux | Wednesday, June 03, 2015 at 04:51 PM
that makes me hard
Posted by: dude | Thursday, June 04, 2015 at 01:19 AM
Hello Melissa, here you can see awesome long zooms on and around my huge giant 500 meter avatar plus some dance moves:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fC1wsDm3TFc
Posted by: Chefkoch.Resident | Thursday, June 04, 2015 at 01:14 PM