Donmai

create implication papercraft -> unconventional_media

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iridescent slime

A lot of the posts tagged papercraft are digital art designed to be printed and folded, like post #1849175. Not unconventional_media. Moreover, this tag's wiki is unclear about whether it applies to drawings of characters making things from paper, like post #1584305. This isn't unconventional_media either.

Also, classifying sculpture in general as "unconventional media" is a mistake, IMHO. It's one of the most basic branches of visual arts. There's nothing unconventional about it.

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Danielx21

iridescent_slime said:

A lot of the posts tagged papercraft are digital art designed to be printed and folded, like post #1849175. Not unconventional_media. Moreover, this tag's wiki is unclear about whether it applies to drawings of characters making things from paper, like post #1584305. This isn't unconventional_media either.

Also, classifying sculpture in general as "unconventional media" is a mistake, IMHO. It's one of the most basic branches of visual arts. There's nothing unconventional about it.

I get that point, but I've been thinking that papercraft and sculpture are unconventional media in the context of an anime imageboard. We don't often see those here.

That said, it's true that sculpture is one of the most basic branches of visual arts.

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evazion

Looks like there are three separate things here, photos of completed papercraft projects, digital papercraft templates, and drawings of characters making papercraft. The tag should be split up along these lines. Completed papercraft photos is the only one that would qualify for implying unconventional media.

"Unconventional media" is a tag I made up that was meant to be a catchall term for anything that's not digital or traditional media. I called it that for lack of a better name but I'm open to changing it if anyone has any better ideas.

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iridescent slime

evazion said:

Looks like there are three separate things here, photos of completed papercraft projects, digital papercraft templates, and drawings of characters making papercraft. The tag should be split up along these lines.

Photos of objects made from paper have been moved to papercraft_(medium). The templates have all been moved to paper_cutout and/or paper_doll. Characters making things from paper have been moved to arts_and_crafts for lack of a better tag.

Papercraft isn't yet fully depopulated; there are still a few illustrations like post #532363 and post #2875485 that defy categorization. Suggestions for a better way to tag those are welcome.

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