tag guidelines (Version 45)

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 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 (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

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.

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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • 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.
  • 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 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.
  • 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. These aren't accepted anymore.
  • 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.

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
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