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Hello,
I want to upload a animation I made for a game that is still developing. Am I allowed to upload it here?
I know uploading a animation from a game is not allowed, but what about if I made it myself?
My reasoning is like someone commissioned me a animation for their game and I upload my commissioned work here.
Just wanted to ask before I upload. Thanks.
hpinky said:
Hello,I want to upload a animation I made for a game that is still developing. Am I allowed to upload it here?
I know uploading a animation from a game is not allowed, but what about if I made it myself?
My reasoning is like someone commissioned me a animation for their game and I upload my commissioned work here.Just wanted to ask before I upload. Thanks.
The specific rule in regard to this on the Uploading Guidelines is:
The "screen capture" rule is mainly to deter random people from uploading whatever clips they like from a game they had played or a video they had watched.
As the artist/animator, I believe you would be treated the same as if you were the developer of the game itself, so you would be exempt from this rule.
However, there are still certain expectations to the screen captures posted by the developer/artist themselves.
You should keep any "external UI elements" to a bare minimum. If you had reused any animation cycles on different characters, they should be limited to 10 posts only as per the image set rule.
thegreatwolfgang said:
The specific rule in regard to this on the Uploading Guidelines is:
- Screen captures: Screenshots from games, still images from movies, video snippets from YouTube, etc.
- This includes all content created in sandboxes like Second Life, Minecraft, and similar.
- This also includes all ripped image files from visual novels and similar games.
- Exception: games and interactive media may have screen recordings captured by a developer. External UI elements such as cursors and recording software labels must be kept to a minimum, and captures including different characters using similar animations are subject to the normal base limit.
The "screen capture" rule is mainly to deter random people from uploading whatever clips they like from a game they had played or a video they had watched.
As the artist/animator, I believe you would be treated the same as if you were the developer of the game itself, so you would be exempt from this rule.However, there are still certain expectations to the screen captures posted by the developer/artist themselves.
You should keep any "external UI elements" to a bare minimum. If you had reused any animation cycles on different characters, they should be limited to 10 posts only as per the image set rule.
Thank you!
thegreatwolfgang said:
The specific rule in regard to this on the Uploading Guidelines is:
- Screen captures: Screenshots from games, still images from movies, video snippets from YouTube, etc.
- This includes all content created in sandboxes like Second Life, Minecraft, and similar.
- This also includes all ripped image files from visual novels and similar games.
- Exception: games and interactive media may have screen recordings captured by a developer. External UI elements such as cursors and recording software labels must be kept to a minimum, and captures including different characters using similar animations are subject to the normal base limit.
The "screen capture" rule is mainly to deter random people from uploading whatever clips they like from a game they had played or a video they had watched.
As the artist/animator, I believe you would be treated the same as if you were the developer of the game itself, so you would be exempt from this rule.However, there are still certain expectations to the screen captures posted by the developer/artist themselves.
You should keep any "external UI elements" to a bare minimum. If you had reused any animation cycles on different characters, they should be limited to 10 posts only as per the image set rule.
Can you explain the rule in more detail and why it is this way? I am not sure I understand it. I have an erotic game of my own I am working on. I want to follow that rule, I hope I don't sound like I'm arguing against it.
redphoenix42 said:
Can you explain the rule in more detail and why it is this way? I am not sure I understand it. I have an erotic game of my own I am working on. I want to follow that rule, I hope I don't sound like I'm arguing against it.
To put it simply, we don't want unaffiliated third-parties to randomly screenshot/screen record games they play and then upload here.
It could be like from any porn game they had played, screen recorded, and then uploaded here (e.g., just search any porn game you know and look for videos of lets-plays or walkthroughs).
It is considered as low-effort (since anybody can do it) and it is not the main purpose of this site.
If you are the developer or one of the persons involved in the game's development, you are (probably) exempt from this rule.
You would be allowed to post screenshots or small snippets of your game, but it should be void of any "external UI elements" as much as possible.
If you are still unsure if your post would be allowed, I'd recommend approaching one of the janitors or mods who can answer any questions you may have and then evaluate your post for you before you upload.
redphoenix42 said:
Can you explain the rule in more detail and why it is this way? I am not sure I understand it. I have an erotic game of my own I am working on. I want to follow that rule, I hope I don't sound like I'm arguing against it.
The screenshot rule applies to third parties since they're not doing anything artistic or transformative with the assets. The pictures also tend to be low in quality.
However, for a developer and an artist directly working on a game, it's less of a screenshot and becomes more of showcasing their own work, as with any other self-uploaded post. Of course, their uploads are still subject to the other uploading guidelines, but that ought to be expected.
A question. The rule exemption says:
games and interactive media may have screen recordings captured by a developer.
So is the exemption for screenshots/recordings having been made by a developer, can third-parties (i.e. us plebs) upload those screenshots/recordings the developer made? Within reason of course, so not uploading every promotional in-game image or video.
I ask because we don't normally restrict who uploads a piece (outside of (C)DNP artists, obviously). If a video or image is allowed here, it generally doesn't matter who uploads it. And the wording seems to reflect this, as long as the screenshots/recordings were made by the developer, it doesn't say only the developer can upload it. But the common way it's explained is "a developer can upload screenshots/clips of their own game", which does imply that restriction. What's the correct way to interpret this?
watsit said:
A question. The rule exemption says:
So is the exemption for screenshots/recordings having been made by a developer, can third-parties (i.e. us plebs) upload those screenshots/recordings the developer made? Within reason of course, so not uploading every promotional in-game image or video.I ask because we don't normally restrict who uploads a piece (outside of (C)DNP artists, obviously). If a video or image is allowed here, it generally doesn't matter who uploads it. And the wording seems to reflect this, as long as the screenshots/recordings were made by the developer, it doesn't say only the developer can upload it. But the common way it's explained is "a developer can upload screenshots/clips of their own game", which does imply that restriction. What's the correct way to interpret this?
As a third-party, you should be able to repost any official screenshots/screencaps made by the developers themselves.
What you are not allowed is to make screencaps of your own, such as making your own looped/edited segments of said officially-released content.
However, I do recall a couple of instances where someone came to the forum to complain about how their post got deleted as a screencap regardless, even though they had taken it straight from the developer's page.
I can't find the exact forum post where this one was mentioned in, but I do recall the screencap as being somewhat low-quality and very reminiscent to those kind of game walkthroughs you find on porn sites.
In another instance, the uploader had improperly sourced where they had gotten the official screencaps, which resulted in their posts getting deleted as potential commercial content & screencap, see topic #54082.
