As Cooper stated in an interview, 'I was a great believer in constantly changing Kong's height to fit the settings and the illusions. This did not stop Cooper from playing around with Kong's size as he directed the special effect sequences by manipulating the sizes of the miniatures and the camera angles, he made Kong appear a lot larger than O'Brien wanted, even as large as 60 feet (18.3 m) in some scenes. O'Brien and his crew built the models and sets scaling Kong to be only 18 feet (5.5 m) tall on Skull Island, and rescaled to be 24 feet (7.3 m) tall in New York. Cooper envisioned Kong as being '40 to 50 feet tall', animator Willis H.
Kong's size changes drastically throughout the course of the film.
