The tag alias #51235 inset -> cutaway has been approved.

Reason:

EDIT: The tag alias inset -> cutaway (forum #306620) has been approved by @Millcore.

Sheesh knotty, please state a reason!

The tag alias inset -> cutaway (forum #306620) has been approved by @Millcore.

Having found myself very confused recently trying to lookup any variant of the term "cutaway panel/view/shot/comc" and finding nothing resembling what the wiki states, I think flipping that alias would be preferable.

The only definitions I've found are "cutaway shot", a movie technique where the view cuts away from the subject of the scene without transitioning to a new scene, and "cutaway view/diagram", which is like a cross-section view, but showing the inside by "peeling off layers" instead of "cleanly slicing through". The latter is especially confusing since it's the kind of internal view you'll mostly see used in these "cutaway panels", leaving me to believe that the initial intent for the tag was to describe an inset panel with a cutaway internal view or something similar.

EDIT: Actually, nevermind the flipping, cutaway probably just needs a different name. inset is more of a visual layout concept (and probably shouldn't be aliased?) than an actual "content of the image" concept, but the name overlap is still problematic to me.

fifteen said:
Having found myself very confused recently trying to lookup any variant of the term "cutaway panel/view/shot/comc" and finding nothing resembling what the wiki states, I think flipping that alias would be preferable.

The only definitions I've found are "cutaway shot", a movie technique where the view cuts away from the subject of the scene without transitioning to a new scene, and "cutaway view/diagram", which is like a cross-section view, but showing the inside by "peeling off layers" instead of "cleanly slicing through". The latter is especially confusing since it's the kind of internal view you'll mostly see used in these "cutaway panels", leaving me to believe that the initial intent for the tag was to describe an inset panel with a cutaway internal view or something similar.

EDIT: Actually, nevermind the flipping, cutaway probably just needs a different name. inset is more of a visual layout concept (and probably shouldn't be aliased?) than an actual "content of the image" concept, but the name overlap is still problematic to me.

In my opinion this implication shouldn't have been made, and the naming isn't really intuitive. A "cutaway shot" is the film term, an inset panel is usually how a cutaway shot in comics or static art (it could be done in an animation too) is conveyed. "Inset" might not describe the purpose of the panel, but what cutaway describes is almost always what inset panels are used for, at least on this site.

"Cutaway" alone always make me think of a partial internal of something, without being a full cross section.

hungrymaple said:
In my opinion this implication shouldn't have been made, and the naming isn't really intuitive. A "cutaway shot" is the film term, an inset panel is usually how a cutaway shot in comics or static art (it could be done in an animation too) is conveyed. "Inset" might not describe the purpose of the panel, but what cutaway describes is almost always what inset panels are used for, at least on this site.

"Cutaway" alone always make me think of a partial internal of something, without being a full cross section.

But is it still a cutaway shot if it's a closeup of one character's junk and/or face or an internal view?

And yeah, I'm unsure what to tag the not-quite-cross-section type of cutaways, like this one. cutaway_diagram? cutaway_view?
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