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Automatically allowed :


-Characters with natural colors for its specie :

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- Characters with natural colors for their " family " ( ex : the canines family ) even if the breed doesn't have those colors

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Allowed if it's just a little :

- Characters with natural colors BUT with a little bit of unnatural color. :

Ok :






Too much :








- Animals with not much accesories ( and it has to be explained if they're wild ) :

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Characters that are automatically not allowed :



- Characters with unnatural colors :

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- Characters with wings, skull parts, or other unnatural things EVEN IF THE COLORS ARE NATURAL :

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- Too much accessories :

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- The Zombies, vampires, were-wolves, chimeras, impossible breeds etc ...

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Now we will talk about the explanation of the colors you can use or not :


You just have to pay attention to the colors you use. Using natural colors for the most of the animals like white, grey, brown etc ... is really easy. The most difficult is to know when the yellow for example is natural or not. Because yes, there is a difference between the reality, the cartoon version and the Sparkle version. Sometimes it's really small.



For example, this is a real " red " husky.


You can see that the " red " looks more like a brown than a satured red. This is what we call a natural red.


Now the cartoon version.


The red is more satured but doesn't " hurt " the eyes. This is what we will call the cartoon version. Many animated movies use this kind of colors for their animals because it's more attractive for the children. Simba, for example, is a lot more yellow/orange than a real lion. A golden retriever dog will be yellow in a cartoon version, even if they're not in the real life.



The most difficult is to not make colors that would change your characters into " Sparkle " characters.

Those colors are really satured and hurt the eyes. This is totally out of subject on the most of the Animation Source sites.


Take care to not fall in those colors because your characters will be desactivated.
Sometimes, the line between Sparkle and cartoon is not large. In this case, mods will all give their voice about it and the majority will win. If you got some doubts, don't hesitate to ask.



Now we will talk about the magic and magical powers, Anthro and other strange things :

The magic powers, characters with wings, vampires and other are not allowed in all the sites. Some animated movies here on Animation Source have some strange things like that and others don't. We only ask you to respect the universe of the movie.
Anthro characters have the same rules ( it's when a character is part human and part animal. Most of the time, it's an animal that walks on 2 legs and wear human clothes ). Some sites have those characters, you have to stay in the movie's state of mind.



Here are the site concerned by ALL the rules ( No Sparkle and strange things ).

The lion king source.
Oliver and co source.
Rio source ( even if birds can have colors who are not natural for mamales, they're natural for them ).
Spirit source.
The aristocat source.
The lady and the tramp source.
The jungle book source.
Bambi source.
The 101 dalmatians source.
The fox and the hound source.



The sites that can use magic, but not unnatural colors :

Brother bear source. ( magic )
The princess and the frog source. ( magic )
Super baloo source. ( Anthro ).
Balto source. ( a little magic on the second movie ... Pay attention to don't use it too much !!! Keep the mind of Balto movie ... there is only spirits and Nava who are strange )
Anastasia source. ( Magic )
Mulan source. ( dragons and Spirits )
Cats don't dances source. ( anthro )
How to train your dragon source. ( Dragons )
Robin hood source. ( anthro )


( Warning, the " magic " and other strange things have to stay on the movie's spirit ... Don't say a wolf can fly, control fire and water on Balto source, it's not allowed. Nava is the ONLY character that can use magic. Be logical and reasonable in your choices. And this applies for all the sites !!
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Sites that allows everything.
All dogs go to heaven source Source. ( unatural colors, magic, wings, anthro etc ... )

( once again, warning. The Sparkle characters are allowed because they are on the site. BUT, beware with the magic. It's because it's unreal; dogs go to heaven and become angels and Annabelle have some powers and can give them to an angel. But the alive dogs don't have magical powers.



Normaly, we shoudn't have to say this to you ... A simple " stay in the movie's universe " should be enough. But we have seen that you just don't get it.

Attention, we have NOTHING against those characters ( the proof : all the drawings and images here are made by me and are my characters or my friend's one ). They just don't have their place here.