tag guidelines (Version 30)

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.
  • When making gifs/webms/mp4s.
    • DO NOT USE Youtube or other low quality footage
    • 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

Copyright

  • Use whatever name is in common use.

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.
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.
  • fighting - Hand to hand or other forms of combat.
  • dancing - Characters dancing.
  • running - Showing characters running or a run cycle.
  • 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 any use of good cloth or fabric animation.
  • morphing - Objects or people that are changing and transforming. Take post #546 for example.
  • mecha - Giant robotic mecha like Gundam.
    • gattai - Combination sequences for mecha.
  • 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.
    • missiles - When you see missiles being fired.
    • beams - Lasers and energy beams also fall under this catgory.
  • walk cycle - A sequence that loops to create animation of a walking character.
  • smears - Split second frames that are distorted to give a sense of motion. Post #59 for example.
  • screencap - Purely any kind of screencap that shows something significant from an animator.
  • impact frames - Split second frames that appear, often to put emphasis on action or impacts. Click on the tag to see more.
  • flipbook - An animation flipbook.
  • genga - Pure Key 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.

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 Kraker2k almost 10 years ago
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