Image Policy

In the process of making characters, most users like to find pictures off the internet to represent their character. Because doing so has become very popular, it is necessary to have a few ground rules for the use of pictures.

General Image Policies

 * 1) The image you choose can not already be in use by another character that was here first.
 * 2) The image you use can not have logos or copyrights clearly stamped on the photos.
 * 3) The images should be tasteful, no nudity, or showing of private parts.
 * 4) The picture shouldn't be overly recognisable to the larger population, if you question whether or not a image you want to use is too recognisable, you can submit it for approval to the judging panel, on the forum page here, also if you see an image that you feel is in breach of this policy point it out to an admin and it will be voted on. The voting will be open for one week, for users level 5 and up to vote on to either keep it or to have it deleted.
 * 5) Examples of an Image that Might be too Recognisable:
 * 6) Harry Potter
 * 7) Ichigo Kurosaki
 * 8) Sasuke Uchiha
 * 9) Brad Pitt
 * 10) Examples of Images probably ok:
 * 11) Actors who are primarily only popular in a certain country and not world wide.
 * 12) Fan art that doesn't resemble an anime character enough to be recognisable.

Permanently Reserved Images
A user may reserve up to three images on their user page, marked as Permanently reserved. These should be images that they have intention to use for an upcoming character.

Temporary Reserved Images
Early on in a user's level process, you may be working on characters to be created upon reaching higher levels, in this case, if you already have your three permanent spots taken, you may put a temporary reserve on more. However, as these are temporary spots, if you reserve one, after one week, it will no longer be counted as reserved if you have yet to use the image. At this time, if another user requested to use that image, it would be allowed.

Limits
In general we have no strict policy on how many images you may use for a character. However, I ask that you remain within reason, if the images are all clearly the same model, that's fine, but there is no need to use 30 images for one character, especially when all images are clearly different models (i.e. not the same person).