The tag implication #56651 realistic_feral -> feral is pending approval.

Reason: A character would have to be feral in order to be a realistic feral.

I'm iffy on this because I'm not actually sure it's a useful tag. It contains a bunch of content that is stylized/'cartoony' and if you want realistic feral images realistic feral is going to accomplish that. There's also the anatomically_correct_feral tag which is largely indistinguishable from realistic_feral but could be useful for separating out stuff like post #4126635.

I like that this tag exists because it's something I've wanted to blacklist for ages. I don't think I see much in that tag that I would call too stylized to fit – the tag, I believe, isn't trying to refer to photorealism, it's referring to ferals that resemble real animals in body structure and proportions. When blacklisting realistic_feral, I'd absolutely want things like post #4445515 and post #4377118 to be included.

Meanwhile anatomically_correct_feral doesn't do the same job because I'm not bothered by feral characters like post #4275278 or post #4287366 that are obviously much further departed from reality in how they are drawn.

nimphia said:
I like that this tag exists because it's something I've wanted to blacklist for ages. I don't think I see much in that tag that I would call too stylized to fit – the tag, I believe, isn't trying to refer to photorealism, it's referring to ferals that resemble real animals in body structure and proportions. When blacklisting realistic_feral, I'd absolutely want things like post #4445515 and post #4377118 to be included.

Meanwhile anatomically_correct_feral doesn't do the same job because I'm not bothered by feral characters like post #4275278 or post #4287366 that are obviously much further departed from reality in how they are drawn.

Problem is that posts like #437718 aren't really 'supposed' to be tagged realistic_feral under its own definition. The distinction between the two is a vague blurry idea of 'tooniness' that isn't consistent in either tag.

If you compare the anatomy of post #4377118 to post #4275278 they're actually pretty close to each other. One has more rendered shading but both are pretty much dog shaped.
post #4377118 post #4275278

I also want there to be a way to sort out stuff like post #4618101 and post #4491461 from ferals that are shaped like animals, but it's sticky when dealing with areas of stylization.

regsmutt said:
Problem is that posts like #437718 aren't really 'supposed' to be tagged realistic_feral under its own definition. The distinction between the two is a vague blurry idea of 'tooniness' that isn't consistent in either tag.

If you compare the anatomy of post #4377118 to post #4275278 they're actually pretty close to each other. One has more rendered shading but both are pretty much dog shaped.
post #4377118 post #4275278

I also want there to be a way to sort out stuff like post #4618101 and post #4491461 from ferals that are shaped like animals, but it's sticky when dealing with areas of stylization.

Yeah, I get what you mean, it can be a pretty grey area. To me, I think the first post might have been a bad example, but I think the eyes and facial expression probably played a part. (I think I'm gonna remove the tag from the first image, since now that you've brought it up it is far too toony for the tag. Note that I didn't add it to the image, just picked an image out of the tag as an example without thinking too much of it.)

A better example would have been something like post #3950792.

nimphia said:
Yeah, I get what you mean, it can be a pretty grey area. To me, I think the first post might have been a bad example, but I think the eyes and facial expression probably played a part. (I think I'm gonna remove the tag from the first image, since now that you've brought it up it is far too toony for the tag. Note that I didn't add it to the image, just picked an image out of the tag as an example without thinking too much of it.)

A better example would have been something like post #3950792.

See, that image is on the edge and it illustrates my issue with this tag. There's a lot of edge cases and splitting "animal shaped" and "animal shaped but with toony faces" into two separate tags gives the question of where that line is.
Is it large eyes? That's why that picture of Jenna doesn't pass. How large? Most images have some degree of exaggeration to the eyes. Human eyebrows? Anthropomorphic expressions? How anthropomorphic?
That's not even getting into animations where you have dog-shaped dogs and horse-shaped horses thrusting and posing like humans in costumes.

Basically there's already a degree of subjectiveness with "animal-shaped ferals" and I don't think adding the extra subjective judgement of "too stylized/anthropomorphic" on top of that.