I tend to like having inflation for the subject being believable for its size. if it's a humanoid, they should only have so much stretch and the body should balloon over the body structure. Seeing a humanoid inflate to the size of a house is a little outlandish, but once it starts going into cities, planets, or hell, galaxies? I just go "...There's just nothing to this that makes any kind of sense at all. A body would only have so much tensile strength to its elasticity, enhanced or not."

I like any size either bouncing them like a ball or ride them like a blimp.

I figure everything has a proper scenario, when it comes to plus sized inflation and such. If a bunch of giant blimps want to keep getting bigger together, and can still interact with one another to some degree, then it is still fun. If folks can still have fun walking around on the nose of some gargantuan blimp, then go forth and enjoy! Other times simply having some house sized balloon critters is all you need.

Proportional inflation up to larger sizes is also quite fun, because then the balloon can potentially return the favour on whomever blew them up in the first place... :3

I'm more a fan of the proportional approach, not to where it simply looks macro, but where it seems the limbs are still somewhat useable even if it would be difficult to do much.

Yeah, getting nice and pear shaped & well rounded, but still able to move with effort. A fun method of puffing up to large sizes. :)

Some nights, I just want to grow forever. Just bigger and bigger, and generally tighter and tighter...

But some times, I love having limits... And feeling uncomfortable when reaching the limit... And the results of going over the limit...

Personally I prefer an inflatee retaining it's shape somewhat, a big bloated frame, of course there will be times when I go like seeing characters get a tad spherical, but then again, kinda depends on my mood and setting of the scene. I prefer having Darren's inflatees with a bit of mobility.

As for maximum size, well, My personal favourite MAX size would happen to be around the size of a fully inflated weather balloon.

Me? So long as the lines aren't TOO spaced out, any size is good. It's probably right around they become very close to being purely a sphere with bonus limbs before I start finding it unnecessary. Maybe around, what, ten, fifteen times their original width?

Trust me when I say that the limbs are what keeps the inflation bit from looking too bland. Too much stomach, too little limb, and it's annoying.

In theory, I love to inflate forever and get as big and fat as possible...But the sad truth is, there comes a point where a balloon belly stops getting bigger and you have to put way more air into it to keep the growth going.

Plus if you don't see much of the face, the eyes, or the limbs, they just become a floating ball. Probably the most common sign of a beginner inflation artist.

For me, what i find appling is the growth part of it, so as long as i can tell things are growing and getting bigger then i dont have a limit. Any form of growth that is.

that's a super interesting thing to talk about. i honestly am not too good at explaining things but i'll try my best to get what i think across.

personally, i kind of like most sizes. usually depending on how well it's pulled off can really help change how much i like about it. i do like things big, but i also really like them small and realistic or even in between. i really like seeing inflated and exagerated bodyparts from it as well as somethign like the tail swelling up as well as the ballooned bit part way through the tail.

i prefer my inflation usuially has some sort of anatomy to it, eben though i could go for less real stuff, i just like how it build the feeling of pressure and tension along the body as it's being swollen up far past what the body should normally do. arms getting fat, legs and hips and thighs pushing out, the belly and chest sort of filling out maybe more oval or depending on how you'd want it to inflate. like bighorse's stuff, i really enjoy seeing a big front but the back is relativly the same size with creases where it has swollen out a little or just as the badk bends a little.swolen hands and feet and fingers andtoes are so amazing and it's sad that peopel don't do them much becasue they can looks SO nice as well as big fat inflated necks.

my biggest size i think.... might be bigger than a house, but like i said as long as it looks good i'm okay with it. it does get kind of really boring and stale and not really worth looking at if it's just a perfect sphere with a few divits where the limbs sunk in as though someone pulled their arms into the middle of a ball suit. kind of really takes away from and realism or size or the fa t that the body can be tight and squish and become more oval and just bulge out when part of it is pushed or pulled into itself. when it literally is just a perfect circle there is nothing... yeah, like i said, no feeling, no shape, no pressure, just... nothing but a circle. i think i'd be more okay with it is there was maybe like a chest bump becasue then it'd really should that like there is some shape and some sort of anatomy that the body is going by that makes it more interesting.

i do like when it feels strained and tight and painful, especially if it's maybe a near bursting thing. one thing i don't really see much of before bursting is maybe the charcter's limbs and body becoming more of just a giant ballooned version of what they once were as if their entire body is reforming from the round ball it was or however they swelled up. i don't always really do it when i do inflate something but it's nice to know that there is something taht makes it FEEL like it's swelling out or that maybe if it's water that it hangs down and lays on things more widely as opposed to air being more round and light and sticking out but really deforming a little when you push into it.

eh.. i think i might have lost even myself with this but this is as much as i can think of to explain with my own tastes for now. hope it's an interesting read?

I agree with having them big, but not so big or dis-proportioned that you can't recognize the character. I also think that interaction is an important part. Meaning that that the inflater is not completely dwarfed by the inflatee.

Depends on the scenario itself for me more than anything. Different set-ups call for different sizes, sometimes it's best to keep things room-sized or less, other times things go beyond "the sky is the limit" by many orders of magnitude.

I think I tend to lose interest by the time they turn completely round and their limbs start to sink in. There is an allure to having their features pumped, and a little over-sizing on some parts never hurt either .

i usually consider near sphericality to be the limit. but when you can't even make out where the limbs used to be, the face is perfectly smoothed out against an inflated body AND the subject is obviously oversized compared to how they were before inflation? even for as much as i like toony stuff, there comes a time when things have to go bang, you know?

i mean, if you're going to get huge, at least show a lot of stretch along the way. it should take a while for something to hit sphericality. BH15 above me put it simply, "there is an allure to having thier features pumped, and a little over-sizing on some parts never hurt either."

I personally like inflation that eventually pushes the inflatee into a sphere as they continue to grow with pressure and strain, but at that point it can only get so interesting. Somewhere a bit larger than a house but smaller than a block seems to be about right.

I always like the pressure side of inflation, so for me whatever size it takes to make the "subject" look like he/she's about to blow. I'd say as soon as a balloon is around 10-15 times their original size is when I call it quits and say pop 'em!

Ideally? Round enough to be helpless, but not toooo much larger? Though I work with a lot of of sizes anyway.

My limit is when it starts to cover the majority of the body. There's only so many poses you can put an inflated character in and the bigger they are, the more their body blocks the view. Having a back or side view mitigates this somewhat.

I would say my limit is about hot air balloon size.

My usual limit seems to be roughly house-sized, but I'm willing to go considerably bigger in some scenarios, provided it's depicted well enough. I do seem to have a hard limit around mountain size. Once they start to get big enough that you can see the curvature of earth, then that's too big for be.

Though it varies with my mood, I tend to really like spherical inflation. It implies that they're under quite a bit of pressure, and I find that immensely appealing.

I do have specific limits, usually involving interaction levels and all. But I can be swayed well outside of that zone by talented artists, depending on their approach and backgrounding to the concept.