tag guidelines

General Tagging Guidelines

  • ALL uploads must have an artist tag. If you don't know the artist, use artist_unknown.
    • 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
  • (Almost) ALL uploads must have a copyright tag (name of the series/movie/franchise). The only exceptions are personal animations/studies.
    • 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.
  • Try to 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. Epsiode numbers should be listed with two digits at least.
    • If it was uploaded online, on a blog or on twitter, use the link as the source instead.
  • Still images, illustrations and gifs aren't welcome anymore in the site, but old posts will remain online. The only accepted image posts now are production materials.
    • Even when uploading production materials, be reasonable and don't flood the website with dozens of concept art or background images, if they're easily available on other websites.
    • When uploading a sequence of storyboard pages, edit them together as a single large image for easier access, like post #220524
  • When editing videos to upload:
    • 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

  • Only tag the key animator(s) who worked on the scene. No need to add storyboard artists, inbetweeners etc. unless it's a production material post.
  • If multiple animators are tagged in a scene, write in the comments which cuts they did, if possible.

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.. FAN WORKS WILL ONLY BE UPLOADED IF THE ANIMATORS HAVE GIVEN THEIR EXPLICIT CONSENT. Avoid uploading quick sketches and other quick animators they might want to share in social media.
  • For works with multiple installments, an "umbrella" tag may be used for all official content related to that franchise.
    • E.g. dragon ball series includes all posts related to the original Dragon Ball anime, DBZ, DB: GT, DB: Super and any movies and spin-offs. dragon ball includes content specifically from the original Dragon Ball (1986) series and related movies.
  • Since this website is mainly for animated series, movies and shorts, works that don't fall on such categories may have an extra description in the copyright tag.
    • (mv) - Music videos
    • (cm) - Commercials (advertising)
    • (video game) - Animation from a video game

Source

  • In the Source box, write the number of the episode in the '#???' format. Use 2 digit numbers if a show has less than 100 episodes, 3 digits if it has 100+ episodes, and 4 digits in the rare case of 1000+ episodes.
    • If a show has different tags for each season (e. g. avatar: the last airbender), use the numbering in the context of the specific season instead of the overall show.
  • If a show is available in various different formats, e.g. DVD, BD (Blu-Ray), Webrip (streaming) etc; you may add which version you sourced from.
  • Other commonly used Source keywords:
    • OP - opening
    • ED - ending
    • NCOP - opening without credits text
    • NCED - ending without credits text
    • PV - promotional video (trailer)
    • Bank - animation reused in multiple episodes
    • SB: (artist's name) - Storyboard artist of the episode
    • CAD: (artist's name) - Chief Animation Director of the episode
    • AD: (artist's name) - Animation Director of the episode
    • Solo KA - episode or short in which a single animator did most (or all of) layouts and genga
    • NC - artist in charge of one or more scenes in the post but was not credited on the episode in question
    • PN - artist in charge of one or more scenes in the post but was credited using a pen-name on the episode in question
  • If the post is a production material, add a link to the webpage where it was originally uploaded, or the name if it's a resource unavailable online, e.g. a book or a documentary.

Parent

  • If two posts are related (e. g. genga and finished animation), write the ID number in the Parent box of one of the uploads to link them together as parent and child. In most cases, the finished animation is the "parent post" and any production materials are "child posts".
  • It is acceptable for a production material (usually storyboards) to cover the content of multiple animated scenes without being split into smaller posts. In such cases, the post may be used as a parent to group all the scenes together. See post #182410

Rating

  • See ratings. However, it should be added that extreme violence and gore also falls under "explicit", as well as non-sexual nudity.
  • Posts with explicit sexual content are less likely to be approved by mods, to comply with content guidelines of the website's host provider.

General

  • General tags cover elements that describe the contents of the post. Try be a little reserved and only describe the major elements in a post, not everything has to be tagged.
  • animated - Use this on all video uploads.
  • 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 from western (non-Asian) countries.
  • eastern - For animation from Asian countries other than Japan, such as China or Korea. (Not including outsourced western animation)
  • 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.
  • remake - The remake tag is for posts that need to be redone in the future. For example, something that was dimmed or ghosted on broadcast would be tagged remake so that it can be replaced once the BD is out.
The following tags describe the contents of an upload. Try to make sure these are the main element, if some smoke or debris appears for a split second then don't tag it in. We have to make sure the tag represents significant forms of this type of animation.

  • rotation - Any form of rotating camera movement captured through animation.
  • fighting - Hand to hand or other forms of combat.
  • performance - Artistic performance. Dancing, singing, playing an instrument etc.
  • running - 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.
  • 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
  • crying - Characters crying.
  • mecha - Any form of mechanical animation. This includes giant robotic mecha like Gundam, Macross, Orguss etc. Moving gears and mechanical parts are also included.
    • gattai - Combination sequences for mecha.
    • henkei - A vehicle changes forms and become a robot.
  • vehicle - For real world vehicles like cars, bikes, helicopters, planes, boats etc..
  • 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 category.
    • 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.
    • wind - Animated wind, mostly used to indicate high speed movement.
  • 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.
  • food - Making, eating, and/or moving of food in an animation.
  • smears - Split second frames that are distorted to give a sense of motion. The third cut in post #234632 for example.
  • 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.
  • sprite - Sprite animation from a video game, or "video game"-style animation (pixel art).
  • flipbook - An animation flipbook.
  • live action - Posts with live-action footage.
  • stop motion - Posts with stop-motion footage.
  • title animation - When the title card of the show is part of the animation.
  • production materials - Any form of material related to the production of a project.
    • genga - Pure Key Animation.
    • genga comparison - When someone compares KA with the finished film like post #1124
    • comparison - comparisons using other types of production materials
    • douga - Inbetween animation and/or cleanup.
    • 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.
    • correction - Correction drawings by the Animation Director.
    • settei - Material that is from the pre-production and planning stages, includes:
  • screencap - Purely any kind of screencap that shows something significant from an animator. These aren't accepted anymore.

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.

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