So, I was under the understanding that SFM was a-ok for Newgrounds. But I had all of my stills wiped out, pointing to the usual complaints about collaborative 3D scenes. These character models and scenes are made for other people to use them, in some cases I contribute to Patreons to fund the artists so they can continue making these sorts of things. But "you didn't build that", so all the work of scene dressing, posing/animating, compositing, color correcting, etc. gets thrown away. At least the movies section hasn't been touched yet, and obviously I would prefer it stay that way, but I really don't know if it will.
That sucks. Just thank god this site isn't filled with animations using ripped video game sprites or anything. So much for this being my new home.
Exedor
SFM is ok for movies, because the movies are created by their submitters (in theory). Art, on the other hand, by it's definition, is something created by the artist. Compositing pieces of other people's creations does not count as original art, and thus, SFM is not accepted in the Art Portal.
SetsuneW
I disagree strongly. 1,000 frames are legitimate, but 1 frame isn't? Digital artists don't always create their own brushes, or textures. Musicians often use preproduced samples. God knows how many sprite animations are still on this site. 3D is by necessity collaborative, because while some people can do everything involved from modeling to texturing to lighting to set dressing to audio to post-production, it's setting an unreasonable standard to expect everyone to not only do that, but throw it out and start fresh each time they want to make something different.