Can we do something about animated posts? I feel like there should be a better way to sort them, besides between file type. Who cares about sorting between gif and png (I obviously understand there are reasons you would want to differentiate between file types)? I didn't even know pngs supported animation before this site. Not only that, but webm and mp4 are their own separate tags, but gif is animated_gif? (I understand animated_png being separate because pngs usually don't move)
I'll get on to my point.
Danbooru is a community that prioritizes quality and has a very strong focus on indexing and tagging. Why are post #2111848, post #2133897, post #2888736, post #2628569 (ew, CG), and post #3075875 all lumped into the same group?
I have a solution. I want tags that help the user differentiate between different types of animated gifs, and I have proposals for a few, along with a few examples of each and a description.
Tags
traditional_animation
Any animation traditionally animated (on a frame by frame basis, without the use of tweening)
Examples:
post #3081692
post #3020538
post #2520076
post #2523054 (personally, I think animated pixel art should get its own tag)
post #2855332
tweened_animation
Animation that makes heavy use of motion tweening. Between us, I believe that there are extremely few tweened animated images that look good. Also, if we could get a tag for all of those still images turned animations a la post #2460633, post #3073626, etc that would make my day. I hate clicking on an animated post only to get a character that's just slightly breathing.
Examples:
post #3075085
post #2941433
post #2912623 (there is hand-drawn animation in this but I believe it's minimal enough that it doesn't count)
post #2520224
post #2706564
hybrid_animation
Animation the makes even use of both hand-drawn animation and tweening.
Examples:
post #2953157
post #2550486
post #2895867
post #2939544
slideshow_animation
Animated images that are compilations of related/sequential still images.
Examples:
post #2014476
post #2445235
I had a hard time finding examples, but you guys definitely know what I'm talking about.
CG_animation
Yuck.
Animation that uses 3d models.
Examples:
post #2622221
I think we all get the point.
As a side note, I think there should be a tag for looping animations since there's one for non-looping.
My plea.
I do genuinely believe that Danbooru is the king of imageboards--it has a level of quality that you don't find anywhere else. I may have just created my account here, but I've been using this site for few years.
In the 13 years that this site has been around, I find it a little confusing that there's no way to get the kind of animation you want. Imagine how much of a leg up on Gelbooru this would be *cough* *cough*
There are close to 100K animated images on there. You think they'll be able to tag them all? This could be a good way to further establish Danbooru as the better site.
So why don't I just do all of this myself?
There are 18K animated images on this site. Not only that, but the only real way to do this requires the ability to use more than 2 tags. The way I'd do this, if I could, would be to search animated and then exclude posts that have any of the new tags I proposed. That way, you're only seeing the animated images that haven't been tagged with the new tags yet. This is also a good way to maintain it once there are no posts left to tag.
Also, without a gold account, there are some posts I just can't tag.
Then how am I expecting this to get done?
I know what you're thinking: 18K posts is still a lot to tag.
...Not necessarily.
I've been a member for about two weeks, and I've tagged just over 700 images. That's with me having work and school to deal with. We could bang this out super quick with more people. These types of animations aren't subjective, either. This seems doable. Hell, I'd help out if I had the permissions.
Is this a good idea? Or am I a dumb noob that's asking for way too much?
My suggested tags, for easy reference:
traditional_animation
tweened_animation
hybrid_animation
slideshow_animation
CG_animation
pixel_animation