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Okay, about the frog. Is it OBJECTIVELY too big? Oddly, no. Remember that these are not just children, but *Halfling* children. 5th Edition Halflings grow to, on average, just 3 feet tall, so this boy stands roughly 20 inches tall, which means the frog is really only about 5 or 6 inches long. Sure, that's a nice big frog, but not *gigantic* by any standard.

Would I *like* the frog to be smaller? Oh hell yes. Not only is it extremely distracting, but it also comes dangerously close to turning the mood of this image from "silly young girl scared of a completely harmless frog, because it's all gross & slimy" to "terrified young girl flees from a legitimate threat".

So why'd I choose *this* image? For two reasons. #1, there's an actual boy-girl-frog *connection* going on here, that was missing from the other images. She was running from something behind her, yes, but you couldn't tell from *what*, specifically. Here, she's caught midway through turning away from the frog, and can still see it in her peripheral vision, so you get more of a sense that she's fleeing FROM the frog.
And Reason #2 is those extra background characters that I just mentioned in the Dwarf and Half-Orc pictures. They tend to do what the foreground characters do--in this case, run toward the "camera" with their mouths open. And because Bing does not do well with faces at a distance, they look smeared & distorted . . . and they're running right at YOU. Which, again, changes the picture from "boy scares girl with harmless frog" to "two little kids flee for their lives from the attacking nightmare zombies." But in THIS image, the background extras were very small indeed, and against a simple background, so I was able to completely edit them out.

"Two fantasy halfling children, 8 years old, 1 boy 1 girl, short & squat, petite. Boy in background, wearing ecru tunic, tan knickerbockers, wet clothes, excited, happy, holding bullfrog in both hands, extending frog towards girl, running, chasing girl. Girl in foreground, wearing short yellow kirtle with blue trim, weeping, tears, afraid, running away from frog. Both barefoot. Pasture, some trees, pond in distance. Stern, serious, grim, gritty, epic, harsh, photorealistic."

Description
Okay, about the frog. Is it OBJECTIVELY too big? Oddly, no. Remember that these are not just children, but *Halfling* children. 5th Edition Halflings grow to, on average, just 3 feet tall, so this boy stands roughly 20 inches tall, which means the frog is really only about 5 or 6 inches long. Sure, that's a nice big frog, but not *gigantic* by any standard.

Would I *like* the frog to be smaller? Oh hell yes. Not only is it extremely distracting, but it also comes dangerously close to turning the mood of this image from "silly young girl scared of a completely harmless frog, because it's all gross & slimy" to "terrified young girl flees from a legitimate threat".

So why'd I choose *this* image? For two reasons. #1, there's an actual boy-girl-frog *connection* going on here, that was missing from the other images. She was running from something behind her, yes, but you couldn't tell from *what*, specifically. Here, she's caught midway through turning away from the frog, and can still see it in her peripheral vision, so you get more of a sense that she's fleeing FROM the frog.
And Reason #2 is those extra background characters that I just mentioned in the Dwarf and Half-Orc pictures. They tend to do what the foreground characters do--in this case, run toward the "camera" with their mouths open. And because Bing does not do well with faces at a distance, they look smeared & distorted . . . and they're running right at YOU. Which, again, changes the picture from "boy scares girl with harmless frog" to "two little kids flee for their lives from the attacking nightmare zombies." But in THIS image, the background extras were very small indeed, and against a simple background, so I was able to completely edit them out.

"Two fantasy halfling children, 8 years old, 1 boy 1 girl, short & squat, petite. Boy in background, wearing ecru tunic, tan knickerbockers, wet clothes, excited, happy, holding bullfrog in both hands, extending frog towards girl, running, chasing girl. Girl in foreground, wearing short yellow kirtle with blue trim, weeping, tears, afraid, running away from frog. Both barefoot. Pasture, some trees, pond in distance. Stern, serious, grim, gritty, epic, harsh, photorealistic."