Timeline for Elf eye proportions, feasible?
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| Jan 9 at 21:11 | comment | added | Devsman | How do you know the eyes occupy significant space inside the cranium? Maybe they're hemispheres. | |
| Jan 3 at 20:53 | comment | added | Michael Seifert | I'll just leave this here | |
| Jan 3 at 17:29 | answer | added | Jay McEh | timeline score: 25 | |
| Jan 3 at 11:35 | comment | added | Stef | If by "In more modern media", you mean "in live-action films where elves are portrayed by human actors", then it shouldn't be too surprising that elves look similar to humans in those media. | |
| Jan 3 at 11:02 | comment | added | Escaped dental patient. | Worth taking into account the nature and composition of tiny bird brains, they perform favourably compared to larger mammalian brains. I blame Darwin. | |
| Jan 3 at 10:50 | comment | added | Therac | Eyes develop to full size sooner than the rest of the body; and at old age, facial skin covers more of the eye. That's all there really is to it - elves' eyes are depicted as relatively larger and the skin is tighter to show (eternal) youth. And, since all elves are ectomorphs, they have narrower heads and faces. Their eyes have never been depicted as significantly larger in absolute terms - you're looking at maybe 10% wider eyeballs. | |
| Jan 3 at 5:29 | history | became hot network question | |||
| Jan 3 at 4:47 | vote | accept | Seraphim | ||
| Jan 3 at 4:35 | comment | added | elemtilas | (cont) Just from looking at the sketches, I a) don't really understand the nature of the problem and b) don't find any of the Elves to be sufficiently "different" to warrant a question like this. Dudes in the middle row look they've got some mandibular issues though: angry dude on the left could use some mandibular contouring and the lad on the right might need a LeFort to work on that weak chin. | |
| Jan 3 at 4:28 | comment | added | elemtilas | In stead of showing us a picture of the external face, can you address the underlying bone structures, bits of fat and muscle that actually determine the issue you're facing with Elf eyes --- i.e., what leads you to believe Elf eyes are "larger" in the first place? Eye slant is a function of skin and underlying tissues, not bone or muscle per se. Plastic / cosmetic surgery can cure that! (cont) | |
| Jan 3 at 0:18 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Jan 3 at 0:07 | comment | added | JBH | I could have voted VTC:Needs More Focus because the title question and post question aren't the same, but instead... VTC:Opinion-Based. You're asking us if some aspect of your entirely fictional creation can be, what, considered actually intelligent by evolution's standards? Why do you believe that your fictional creature can't be intelligent? Are you expecting someone to judge your fictional creature as incapable of actually existing based on today's understanding of science and therefore of no worth? | |
| Jan 2 at 21:16 | answer | added | John | timeline score: 39 | |
| Jan 2 at 20:23 | history | asked | Seraphim | CC BY-SA 4.0 |