I personally disagree, and will explain why, but will offer some ideas anyway.
My view is that of what an artist is. Drawings are art, paintings are art, CG images are art, but so is music, so is dance. There are long arguments about “computer games as art” or “television as art”. Is humour art?
- Art is something that a person or group has spent time making.2. It shows the skill of that person or group and, 3. It draws out a response in those that watch/listen to/look at it.
So it is my view that an animator is an artist as the animation that they make is art, and should be tagged as having created that animation.
Someone who draws an origonal B&W piece is just as much an artist as the person who comes along later and spends their time colouring that piece in. They should both be tagged as such.
The writer for a comic should be tagged just as much as the artist who drew it afterwards.
Kind of along the lines of what celebrities we follow. Everybrony knows the name and face of the entire VA staff of MLP, most of us can name at least one of the writers, and very few even know anything about the animators. Yet each of them work their special talent into the show that we love. They’re all artists, and all deserving.
As our artist tags include the name of the artist EG “artist:ED-SKaR” then you know the people involved in creating a piece. and separating those who deserve the “artist:” tag over those who ‘only’ deserve an “editor:” tag doesn’t seem serve any purpose.
Which logically extends to those who maybe don’t deserve the tag. Does someone who spends twelve seconds in MS paint drawing horse genitalia over someone else’s painting really deserve to be mentioned as an “artist:”?
And most importantly, where do you draw that line (pardon the pun)?
So if a system of separating these tags up were to be introduced, how would they be divided?
Do we seperate those who hand draw and paint from those who CG and photoshop? How about those who use ms paint from those who use photoshop?
Or do they all stay under the “artist:” tag?
There is a lot of artists helping each other or furthering another’s work by colouring in a previously uncoloured work, are they to get a separate “colourer:” tag? Furthermore is that different from otherwise editing someone elses work?
Would a person who uses vectors count as an editor?
All considered, how does the following set line up:
“Origonal artist:”
“Editing artist:”
“Colouring artist:”
“3d modeller:”
“Animator:”
“Writer:”
“Captioner:”
I’d be interested to see how this system were to be implemented, the Derpibooru staff have done a lot of hard work to improve the website, introducing new features, changing how tags work, lots of behind the scenes tweaks that we don’t always notice….
… Making a thing…. showing their skill…. appreciated by others….hmmm.
