I agree with Beth Draco and Troll, plus Rainbow Kat told me the first image in your gallery HAS to be a graphic, not every single spirit related image, and I'm not going to start making them graphics, for everytime I try they never get activated because of a stupid reason.

So clearly graphics and official character images are 2 different things. Yes, we need a certain ratio of both in our galleries ( and for the life of me I can't remember what the ratio of graphics: other images is!) But that doesn't mean that every single official character image in our galleries HAS to be a graphic. Most people struggle to make decent graphics, and if it's not decent it won't be activated by the mods (I know, it has happened to me). Ok, I accept your argument that just colouring in a free lineart and uploading it as an official character image is rather lazy. Fair enough. But when the render is done well, with thought and care put into it, that's just as good as any graphic in my opinion. Plus, it's much easier for some people than trying to piece together a graphic. And when you're struggling to make a good graphic just so that you can upload the pictures you REALLY want to into your gallery, you're not enjoying making the graphic, and that just takes all the fun out of graphic design in the first place.

As far as I'm concerned, people should make graphics if they WANT to make graphics, not because they're forced to.

Sorry for the angry rant: I don't mean to be rude.

I think the rules are rather confusing to a lot of people. The fact that we don't have a single set of easily accessible, clearly written rules doesn't help.

As far as I was aware, official character images and graphics are 2 very different things. We HAVE been told that we need a certain ratio of graphics:linearts/renders in our galleries, and on our galleries it tells us to post one official character image for every 3 OC images. But nowhere have I seen official character images linked with graphics. Yes, most of the time if you make a graphic it will include some of the official characters so it qualifies as an official character image. But not all the time, and I hope you don't mind me using one of your own graphics as an example here, Troll, but the link below would not qualify as an official character image, because there are no official characters in it:

http://www.animationsource.org [...] 2.html&numart=15266&display=18

I thought that was only supposed to be for a person's FIRST image, like that rule said, not every single spirit related image we have to do, that's was Kat told me.

It is getting around the rules, I noticed these popping up too. So if you see any, please report them. Renders ARE NOT graphics people!