Awesome Comparisons

We’re pretty comfortable driving on a race track at speeds around 130 to 140 mph. Anything more than that, and we start to get a little squirrely. Speaking of speed, Red Side put together this fun 3D animation that compares the speeds of various vehicles, from bumper cars to rocket cars and everything in between.

Want to feel small? This size comparison from Global Data shows just how tiny we are in the grand scheme of things. The video starts with sub-atomic particles and gradually scales up to chemicals, microorganisms, household items, animals, buildings, cities, asteroids, planets, black holes, galaxies, and superclusters.

MetaBallStudios is known for its infographic-style comparison videos. This time they took a slightly different approach, showing off the relative heights of different cliffs by driving a simulated car off of each one and watching how long it took to fall all the way to the bottom.

We think Earth is just the right size. It’s big enough to hold billions of people and other creatures, and if you’re dedicated enough, you can visit most of it in a lifetime. But what if we lived on a bigger planet? What If created an animated visualization that shows how big other planets are by stuffing them full of Earth-sized planets.

Recently, Red Side created an animation comparing the speeds of vehicles and other fast-moving objects. This new video switches up the perspective, letting us see how quickly they move from a first- or third-person view. While we love to go fast, a lazy cruise in that Apollo lunar rover looks like a nice way to spend the day.

We recently saw a tiny steam engine that could fit atop a pencil eraser. That was small, but this video from MetaBallStudios shows some objects that are much, much smaller, including machines, computer circuits, and structural materials. The engineered items are impressive, but it’s those handmade sculptures that really blew our minds.

Curious to know how much faster a bullet train is than a lunar rover? This speed comparison video from RED SIDE shows off a wide variety of vehicles, ships, and aircraft and how different categories perform against each other. We’re amazed at how quick some of the human-powered and wind-powered craft are.

Imagine what it might be like if a bunch of monsters came to town and started stomping around. MetaBall Studios takes to the streets with their latest size comparison video, giving us a sense of scale as various fictional monsters invade Earth and wreak havoc on the place. Once they start getting 30 feet tall or more, they can’t help but destroy the place.

Whether you’re a snail or a gazelle, you must move around to survive in this world. In the latest comparison video from RED SIDE, they animated the vast differences in the movements of all kinds of animals, from ants to elephants and everything in between. Watch it in 4K if you’ve got the bandwidth, and find out if a human can outrun a hippo.

MetaBallStudios offers a fun take on size comparison videos. By putting viewers in the body of a virtual human, we get to see how mechs might look roaming around Earth. They start with Emmet’s diminutive Constructo-o-Mech from The LEGO Movie and work their way up to the massive, city-stomping Super Galaxy Gurren Lagann.

When it comes to missiles, there are three critical factors: range, speed, and accuracy. RED SIDE’s latest comparison video simulates various kinds of missiles to see which ones are the slowest and fastest to reach their target. The video starts with a drag race, followed by a launch-stage-flyby sequence, a range demonstration, and finally, a size comparison.

We’ve featured many size comparison videos from channels like MetaBallStudios and RED SIDE. Kursgezagt wanted to make a different kind of comparison video, examining opposingly small and large things relative to the size of an average human, from the tiniest proton to the vastness of observable universe.

We’ve been up close with some of the impressive land-moving and construction equipment that Caterpillar makes. MetaBallStudios sizes up these alongside some even bigger machines, including giant excavators, cranes, and earth movers that make even the 51.5 foot-tall CAT 797F mining truck look like a miniature.

Red Side has compared the speeds of aircraft, spaceships, and other vehicles; now they’re back to show the differences in flying speeds of birds – or, in the case of penguins, chickens, and kiwis, how fast they can walk or run. Who here knew a seagull was faster than Usain Bolt?

If you thought that each of the moons in our solar system were similar in size, you’d be very wrong. Like they did before with stars, MetaBallStudios compares the relative sizes of the natural satellites orbiting around planets, from the tiny rocks zooming around Saturn, to Jupiter’s massive Titan and Ganymede.

The smallest plane we’ve flown on was a 4-seat Cessna, and the biggest was a Boeing 777. But there are much smaller and much larger airplanes out there. RED SIDE created this computer-generated clip of these flying machines ranging from a 12.8 feet long single-seater all the way up to a gigantic 275-foot-long cargo jet.