tag guidelines (Version 43)
General Tagging Guidelines
- Uploads should have an artist and show name tagged.
- Names should be in western order. [First-name Last-name] - use Google or ANN if you are not sure.
- Place 'art:' infront of an artist's name to convert it to a yellow artist tag.
- eg: art:yutaka_nakamura
- Place 'copy:' infront of a show name to convert it to a purple copyright tag.
- eg: copy:macross_plus
- Tags can't have spaces, use underscores '_' instead.
- Use artist_unknown & source_unknown if you are not sure.
- The site supports webm, mp4 and apng as well so tag ALL gifs/webms/mp4/apngs as animated.
- Try an identify at least one major element of the animation in the upload and tag accordingly, some examples are: effects, mecha, background_animation and so forth.
- Specify the episode number or movie name in the source text box.
- If it was uploaded online, on a blog or on twitter, use the link as the source instead.
- Still images and illustrations are welcome. Just tag them accordingly. (screencap, genga, illustration etc.)
- When making gifs/webms/mp4s.
- DO NOT USE YouTube or other low quality footage (unless it's the only source, but make sure it complies with the quality guidelines)
- DO NOT USE Footage with subtitles
- DO NOT USE the wrong aspect ratios, keep it as 4:3, 16:9 or whatever the original was.
Commonly Used Tags
Artist
- Use the western naming order:
Copyright
- Use whatever name is in common use.
- Only use a copyright tag when the upload is from an official production.
- Exception: if the animation (or picture) was personally released by the artist (as a “fan work”) and it's related to a copyright, a tag for the copyright work should be added if the artist has been involved in the official work before.
- e.g. post #56416
- Exception: if the animation (or picture) was personally released by the artist (as a “fan work”) and it's related to a copyright, a tag for the copyright work should be added if the artist has been involved in the official work before.
General
- General tags cover elements that describe the contents of a upload or picture. Try be a little reserved and only describe the major elements in a gif, not everything has to be tagged. So don't tag the character names and so forth.
- animated - Use this on all uploads that have a moving element. The site supports gif/apng/webm/mp4 as well so tag those too.
- illustration - A still drawing done by an animator or artist, usually from a magazine, artbook or doujinshi.
- web - Used to denote animation (or drawing) that was uploaded online, on an animator's blog, twitter, website or other online resource. Usually some kind of personal drawing or animation.
- western - Since this website is mainly for Japanese animation, use this for animation not of Japanese, of either American or European, origin.
- presumed - Use when you know with reasonable accuracy that it might be by particular animator. Also use if the Sakuga@wiki uses (憶測) or (推測), which mean guess/speculation. If you ever get confirmation, leave a message in the reply box as to where you found it.
- rotation - Any form of rotating camera movement captured through animation.
- fighting - Hand to hand or other forms of combat.
- dancing - Characters dancing.
- running - Showing characters running or a run cycle.
- flying - Any animation depicting flight of some kind.
- falling - Characters falling.
- sports - Scenes of sporting activity such as basketball, baseball, soccer, football, racing, horse racing etc..
- henshin - Scenes showing transformation sequences, often stock footage. Mainly for magical girl shows, but other kinds are also accepted.
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creatures - Tag for any kind of creature. Demons, monsters, aliens, yokai etc...
- animals - If you have a real world animal, then use this.
- fabric - Any use of good cloth or fabric animation.
- hair - Any use of interesting hair movement.
- morphing - Objects or people that are changing and transforming. Take post #6633 for example.
- character_acting - Scenes where the focus is on general character movement more than anything else. i.e wouldn't apply to dancing/running scenes etc
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mecha - Any form of mechanical animation this includes giant robotic mecha like Gundam. This also includes moving gears and mechanical parts.
- gattai - Combination sequences for mecha.
- vehicle - For real world vehicles like cars, bikes, helicopters, planes, boats etc..
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effects - This tag encompasses all the different forms of effect animation. Here are the specific tags in use:
- explosions - Any kind of extravagant explosion.
- smoke - Any kind of smoke effect, can also use for things that are similar like steam or clouds.
- liquid - For water, blood or other liquid substances.
- debris - Chunks of earth, buildings, metal etc..
- fire - Fire and flames.
- ice - Animation featuring ice.
- lightning Animation that features lightning or electricity.
- missiles - When you see missiles being fired.
- beams - Lasers and energy beams also fall under this catgory.
- sparks - A small fiery particle thrown off from a fire, alight in ashes, or produced by striking together two hard surfaces such as stone or metal.
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cgi Any kind of 3D CGI element in the upload.
- 3d background - Animation that employs a moving 3d background. Usually made with CGI.
- background animation - When an upload has an animated background. Such as post #15832
- walk cycle - A sequence that loops to create animation of a walking character.
- crowd - Animation featuring large groups of people moving in a notable way.
- smears - Split second frames that are distorted to give a sense of motion. The first cut in Post #11356 for example.
- screencap - Purely any kind of screencap that shows something significant from an animator.
- black and white - When animation is in black and white.
- impact frames - Split second frames that appear, often to put emphasis on action or impacts. Click on the tag to see more.
- food - Making, eating, and/or moving of food in an animation.
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production materials - Any form of material related to the production of a project.
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genga - Pure Key Animation.
- genga comparison - When someone compares KA with the finished film like post #1124
- flipbook - An animation flipbook.
- storyboard - Blueprint from which the scenes are drawn from. See post #9252
- layout - Work drawn between storyboard and animation stages; plans the framework, positions, camera angles etc..
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settei - Material that is from the pre-production and planning stages, includes:
- character_design - Model sheets, turnarounds, characters drawn in different poses.
- mechanical_design - Similar to the above but for mecha, vehicle and any other mechanical objects.
- background_design - Similar to the above but for backgrounds. See post #1436
- concept_art - This covers work drawn before designs are finalised.
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genga - Pure Key Animation.
Terminology
This section is for terms and phrases that are commonly used by (Japanese) sakuga fans to describe certain types of cuts or elements of a cut. Most of them are translated terms from Japanese.Updated by Skrullz over 5 years ago