Really small shapes design

Anyone can give advise how to make customise shape for little creatures.
I know that I can create new shape in SL and under appearance apply setting but it has limit to set max & min. height etc.

What I am looking is to create a really small shapes. I saw a few up in Slex.
Anyone? Thanks !

Think you're referring to "Tinies"....its created using prims, some of which need to be made invisible (Invisi prims), plus you drop in animation for the appropiate walks or movements. Its not made through "Appearance" where 3ft 8/ 3ft 9 is about the smallest you can get and still look ok proportionally....however you need to make a default shape for it...usually as skinny and as short as possible so it makes it easier to hide a section of the shape inside the Invisi prim

There are a few ways to do this, and depending how small the avatars are, some ways are better than others.

Tinies traditionally are made by using special animations that fold the avatar up, so the arms and legs become half as long, and the torso is half as long.

Using an invisiprim to hide the avatar body is another way to do it.

The smallest ones, 'micro avatars' or whatever they are called, sometimes use an animation to move the avatar deep underground, or use a combination of animation and invisiprim, such that the 'normal avatar body' is moved away and hidden, leaving only a prim avatar behind. I have seen an avatar that was like a 6" tall furry driving a segway around, very cute, but the actual avatar was hidden several meters underground.

-Atashi

Really helpful. 5 stars !