Animated PNGs of other artists' work

S1eth said:
I request the deletion of all images from kaze_(kazesan).

None of his images are original art. All of them are third-party photoshops.
The photoshops were created using image distortion software such as xx-cake or similar.

See for youself how little effort it takes to shop these:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJjwJbIXfQE

examples of his images that I noticed and flagged 3 months ago:
post #1348335, post #1348331

Worth discussing separately. The wiki says these are all done with the permission of the original artists, but I kinda agree with them not being upload-worthy. Maybe link to the edit in the comments of the original instead?

It's ok with permission of the original artist. I see that as similar to uncensoring or coloring another artist's work.

Without consent it's stolen art, that's a no-go.

I think those strap-on animations don’t add anything Danbooru-worthy to the image. The original images are fine as they are. Some of the animations even introduce animation artifacts, such as misaligned lines (post #1018167, for example). Sometimes the animation sequence doesn’t even make sense, like in post #1271425, which looks animated backwards. Some are just plain bad, like post #1402343: The face and the top hair move while the hair around her shoulders and behind her back doesn’t. Also, what’s with that leg animation? Human legs don’t work that way.

If it’s some elaborate animation that really adds something to the image, yes, but this kind of cheap animation doesn’t cut it for me.

This really should be decided on a case by case basis. Some of his works may be poor, but others are fairly decent (e.g. post #1367403).

Blanket bans are a bad idea in general, they always cause problems in the long run. So I think that we don't need any hard rules regarding this, simply adding a note to the howto:upload or animated wiki about extra scrutiny when it comes to such images may be enough.

I strongly support treating these like we do nude filters. Not necessarily animated edits in general, but definitely ones like kaze_(kazesan)'s that are just a still frame ran through a distortion program for invariably terrible results.

The fact that they get permission is irrelevant. They're not really danbooru quality and wouldn't belong here even if the person who made it was the artist of the original image.