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"Whether you liked the stylized representation or not, most of you told me that you definitely felt that the figure did look short."

I had to laugh a little bit at that.

Sort of like saying, "Yes, they looked terrible...but at least they're short! We got that part right!"

More seriously, the art at the bottom of the article is leagues better than the concept art from before. I'll definitely take them over the huge heads look of the concept art or the angry children look of 4E.

Why not make them look like the hobbits? *run and duck for cover*

What do I think of the Halfling now? Honestly, I think that how much more "realistic" it looks now takes away significantly from what made it actually look like a Halfling in the concept art. I know what you're showing us is a Halfling because this is an article about Halflings and because we just had a discussion about body proportions, but this Halfling that I'm looking at now has the same problem as the Halfling that's just a scaled down Human; I have no idea that it's a Halfling without something else to compare it to. The proportions that you're using for this Halfling just aren't very dramatic, so if I saw such an illustration in the book without an environment or other characters around it, I'd probably just chalk the slightly odd proportions up to the artist's style of drawing Humans.

Of course, I'm one of the people who thought that the concept art for the Halfling was absolutely perfect as it was exactly because it was so exaggerated and "silly".

Maybe now people will stop moaning about the Halfling Art :P

We could say there are two types of D&D halfling:

The hobbit-like

They are cute wonderful nPCs, but horrible PCs, I don´t talk about racial traits but background, they are too happy farmers to be adventurers. 

 

And like Arthasian halflings from Dark Sun and the Kenders from Krynn

Kenders are fun for a short time, after they became annoying. 

 



I suggest both should can be possible like subraces, like hill and mountain dwarfs, or high and wood elves.

About background I suggest the hairfeet really should wear shoes for adventures (because they are traps and other things in the dungeons) but they are barefoot for summer when they lives in their towns (because there isn´t danger or menace, but be bitten by some scorpion or snake).

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They are the famous Don Quijote de la Mancha and his loyal squire Sancho Panza, the classic characters by Miguel de Cervantes. (Image from late 70´s Spanish cartoon serie) Yes, they are humans, of course, but you could notice Sancho Panza has got a little touch of "halfling", because he is a man from country.

 

The last concept art about halfling has me make rebember "my" Sancho Panza.



Halfling from warhammer fantasy, the classic fat hairfeet (too fat). 

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We would need alternative fighter subclass without heavy armor if somebody wish a monk or swashbuckler halfling or gnome (with great jumps by ki maneuvers).

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About the skethc in the end of the article, the the halfling in the rights has got a chin too big, he looks Lord Farquaad, the first Shreck´s enemy.

 

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About the body proportion.

Hairfeet halfling could have got proportion of a at birth human but the legs. The legs shouldn´t be shorts.

 The proportion of legs should be like 6 years old human like minimum. 

The right proportion could be like 6 years children, and maybe head could be bigger (but it isn´t really necesary)