we deserve a walfas tag ;w;

Im fairly certain walfas arent even allowed here on danbooru.

Why is this on Danbooru? And why do most of the characters have no expressions?

Stevo_the_Human said:

Why is this on Danbooru? And why do most of the characters have no expressions?

Create.swf, coded by Thefre with art assets by Walfas, is a program designed to create still images or Flash animations (yep, it's from a while ago) using "paper doll"-style elements. Characters have blank expressions by default, so the animator can modify them to suit the situation.

I personally have nothing against the art style being here on Danbooru, but to be fair, any examples of it that are here should probably be strictly those produced specifically by Walfas, the original artist. Otherwise, it's effectively like copy-pasting any other artist's characters into a new image or comic strip and claiming it as one's own. Elsewhere, so long as Walfas and Create.swf are properly attributed, it wouldn't be a big deal per se, as it's what Create.swf was designed for, but it does rather go against the purpose of an art curation site like Danbooru. (Writing and composition creativity does count for something, but not within the context of this site.)

Moonspeaker said:

Create.swf, coded by Thefre with art assets by Walfas, is a program designed to create still images or Flash animations (yep, it's from a while ago) using "paper doll"-style elements. Characters have blank expressions by default, so the animator can modify them to suit the situation.

I personally have nothing against the art style being here on Danbooru, but to be fair, any examples of it that are here should probably be strictly those produced specifically by Walfas, the original artist. Otherwise, it's effectively like copy-pasting any other artist's characters into a new image or comic strip and claiming it as one's own. Elsewhere, so long as Walfas and Create.swf are properly attributed, it wouldn't be a big deal per se, as it's what Create.swf was designed for, but it does rather go against the purpose of an art curation site like Danbooru. (Writing and composition creativity does count for something, but not within the context of this site.)

oh, didn't know ;w;

Walfas was one of the things that made me get into Touhou and consequently this website.

While I'd be fine with stuff created by the artist themselves as a "honorable mention", images made with create.swf made by other people would most likely fall into the low-effort zone.

Darkagma said:

Walfas was one of the things that made me get into Touhou and consequently this website.

While I'd be fine with stuff created by the artist themselves as a "honorable mention", images made with create.swf made by other people would most likely fall into the low-effort zone.

Yeah... speaking of walfas, I do notice a lack of walfas videos this year, since there aren’t a lot since... Y’know, when they were created...