A 5x5 contact sheet of pixel art frames showing a character in various poses against a teal grid background with the text "LINK" in the top-left corner.

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A 5x5 contact sheet of pixel art frames showing a character in various poses against a teal grid background with the text "LINK" in the top-left corner.

A 5x5 contact sheet of pixel art frames showing a character in various poses against a teal grid background with the text "LINK" in the top-left corner. Animated 24×24 GIF AIM bud…

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Animation

  • frame 0: standing still with shield held forward
  • frame 1: slight arm rotation to right
  • frame 2: body turned slightly left
  • frame 3: arm movement toward chest
  • frame 4: full turn to left side
  • frame 5: return to front-facing stance
  • frame 6: small step forward
  • frame 7: arm raised slightly
  • frame 8: shield held lower
  • frame 9: slight lean right
  • frame 10: body turned right with shield extended
  • frame 11: full turn to left side
  • frame 12: return to front-facing stance
  • frame 13: small step forward
  • frame 14: arm raised slightly
  • frame 15: shield held lower
  • frame 16: slight lean right
  • frame 17: body turned right with shield extended
  • frame 18: full turn to left side
  • frame 19: return to front-facing stance
  • frame 20: small step forward

Animation Summary

21-frame animation cycle showing subtle variations in the character's pose including standing still, arm movements, body rotations, and small steps across multiple frames. The sequence demonstrates a simple idle or walking animation with consistent character design throughout all frames.

Composition

  • 5x5 contact sheet layout
  • left-to-right top-to-bottom frame arrangement
  • text in top-left corner
  • gray transparency area bottom-right

Dense Caption

The image is a 5x5 contact sheet containing 21 animated frames arranged left-to-right and top-to-bottom, each depicting a pixelated character resembling Link from The Legend of Zelda series. The character has green hair, orange skin, wears an orange tunic with green accents, and holds a brown shield in the right hand. Each frame shows subtle variations in pose: some frames show the character standing still, others depict slight arm or body movements suggesting animation cycles like walking or idle actions. The background consists of a teal grid pattern with black lines forming squares. In the top-left corner, there is a white square containing the text "LINK" in bold black pixelated letters. The bottom-right portion of the contact sheet has a gray rectangular area indicating transparency space. All frames maintain consistent color palettes and character design across the animation sequence. The image uses 8-bit style pixel art with visible dithering effects on some edges, typical of retro video game graphics from the late 1980s or early 1990s.

Description

A 5x5 contact sheet of pixel art frames showing a character in various poses against a teal grid background with the text "LINK" in the top-left corner.

Fandoms

  • The Legend of Zelda

Identity Hypotheses

  • Link | basis visible | confidence high | evidence consistent with Link's appearance in early Zelda games

Metadata Supported By Image

  • alt: legend_zelda
  • category: icon / misc / legend zelda

Named Entities

  • Link

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated link character
  • teal grid background animation
  • 8-bit zelda icon
  • link pixel art contact sheet
  • zelda legend of zelda buddy icon
  • retro video game animation frames
  • green hair orange tunic shield
  • aol im zelda icon
  • legend of zelda animated icon

Preprocessing Notes

  • contact sheet layout 5x5
  • sampled frame count 21
  • source frame count 21
  • gray transparency background area bottom-right
  • review image size 1280x1280 pixels

Safety Notes

  • non-explicit cartoon character
  • no nudity or explicit content
  • text is clearly labeled "LINK"

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • source: wayback-coolbuddy-gifs | alt: legend_zelda | category: icon / misc / legend zelda | url: legend_zelda

Visible Text

  • LINK

Visually Supported Entities

  • The Legend of Zelda franchise
  • Link character design

Wordwall

  • pixelated character
  • green hair
  • orange tunic
  • brown shield
  • teal grid background
  • black grid lines
  • white text box
  • text LINK
  • 5x5 contact sheet
  • 21 frames
  • standing pose
  • arm movement
  • body rotation
  • dithered edges
  • 8-bit style
  • retro video game art
  • character design consistency
  • pixelated lettering
  • gray transparency area
  • frame-to-frame variation
  • teal color scheme
  • orange skin tone
  • green accents
  • brown shield handle
  • white square text box

Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 8, 2026

Wayback CDX CoolBuddy.com Icon GIF Captures

Source title
legend_zelda
Category
icon / misc / legend zelda
Era
Mid-2000s Mega Gallery
Observed
July 8, 2026 at 02:13 UTC
Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
24×24 pixels
File size
2.9 KB
Motion
Animated (21 frames)
Added to archive
July 8, 2026
Relative path
icons/a6/a6a3bd73e848bb172939a6488c6dd53bfbfed97fdd5e126de7a78b8062d1b9cb.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 10, 2026 at 04:07 UTC
Archive ID
a6a3bd73e848bb17
SHA-256
a6a3bd73e848bb172939a6488c6dd53bfbfed97fdd5e126de7a78b8062d1b9cb
Content-safety assessments (2)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 06:20 UTC
Run
106
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.090729

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.921949onnx/unsafe0.090729onnx/nsfw0.055930onnx/nsfl0.034799
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Assessed
July 11, 2026 at 15:22 UTC
Run
27
Input
image
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-smart
Overall label
safe
Overall score
0.950000

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flaglegacy/manual-review0.000000falselegacy/nsfw0.000000false
Enrichment records (1)
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A 5x5 contact sheet of pixel art frames showing a character in various poses against a teal grid background with the text "LINK" in the top-left corner.

Reviewed
July 11, 2026 at 15:22 UTC
Run
27
Version
v3
Elapsed
18,208 ms
Tokens
prompt 3,543, response 1,389

Review tags

  • frame to frame variation (animation, 0.95)
  • green hair (appearance, 0.95)
  • teal grid background (background, 0.95)
  • orange tunic (clothing, 0.95)
  • retro video game art (medium, 0.95)
  • brown shield (object, 0.95)
  • 8 bit style (style, 0.95)
  • pixelated character (subject, 0.95)
  • text link (text, 0.95)
  • dithered edges (rendering, 0.90)
  • gray transparency area (background, 0.85)
  • contact sheet layout (composition, 0.85)

Actions

  • standing
  • arm movement
  • body rotation

Animation

  • frame 0: standing still with shield held forward
  • frame 1: slight arm rotation to right
  • frame 2: body turned slightly left
  • frame 3: arm movement toward chest
  • frame 4: full turn to left side
  • frame 5: return to front-facing stance
  • frame 6: small step forward
  • frame 7: arm raised slightly
  • frame 8: shield held lower
  • frame 9: slight lean right
  • frame 10: body turned right with shield extended
  • frame 11: full turn to left side
  • frame 12: return to front-facing stance
  • frame 13: small step forward
  • frame 14: arm raised slightly
  • frame 15: shield held lower
  • frame 16: slight lean right
  • frame 17: body turned right with shield extended
  • frame 18: full turn to left side
  • frame 19: return to front-facing stance
  • frame 20: small step forward

Animation Summary

21-frame animation cycle showing subtle variations in the character's pose including standing still, arm movements, body rotations, and small steps across multiple frames. The sequence demonstrates a simple idle or walking animation with consistent character design throughout all frames.

Colors

  • teal
  • green
  • orange
  • brown
  • black
  • white
  • gray

Composition

  • 5x5 contact sheet layout
  • left-to-right top-to-bottom frame arrangement
  • text in top-left corner
  • gray transparency area bottom-right

Dense Caption

The image is a 5x5 contact sheet containing 21 animated frames arranged left-to-right and top-to-bottom, each depicting a pixelated character resembling Link from The Legend of Zelda series. The character has green hair, orange skin, wears an orange tunic with green accents, and holds a brown shield in the right hand. Each frame shows subtle variations in pose: some frames show the character standing still, others depict slight arm or body movements suggesting animation cycles like walking or idle actions. The background consists of a teal grid pattern with black lines forming squares. In the top-left corner, there is a white square containing the text "LINK" in bold black pixelated letters. The bottom-right portion of the contact sheet has a gray rectangular area indicating transparency space. All frames maintain consistent color palettes and character design across the animation sequence. The image uses 8-bit style pixel art with visible dithering effects on some edges, typical of retro video game graphics from the late 1980s or early 1990s.

Description

A 5x5 contact sheet of pixel art frames showing a character in various poses against a teal grid background with the text "LINK" in the top-left corner.

Fandoms

  • The Legend of Zelda

Identity Hypotheses

  • Link | basis visible | confidence high | evidence consistent with Link's appearance in early Zelda games

Metadata Supported By Image

  • alt: legend_zelda
  • category: icon / misc / legend zelda

Mood

  • nostalgic
  • playful
  • retro gaming

Named Entities

  • Link

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated link character
  • teal grid background animation
  • 8-bit zelda icon
  • link pixel art contact sheet
  • zelda legend of zelda buddy icon
  • retro video game animation frames
  • green hair orange tunic shield
  • aol im zelda icon
  • legend of zelda animated icon

Objects

  • brown shield
  • teal grid background
  • white text box

Preprocessing Notes

  • contact sheet layout 5x5
  • sampled frame count 21
  • source frame count 21
  • gray transparency background area bottom-right
  • review image size 1280x1280 pixels

Safety Notes

  • non-explicit cartoon character
  • no nudity or explicit content
  • text is clearly labeled "LINK"

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • source: wayback-coolbuddy-gifs | alt: legend_zelda | category: icon / misc / legend zelda | url: legend_zelda

Style

  • 8-bit pixel art
  • retro video game style
  • dithered edges
  • low-resolution graphics

Subjects

  • Link character
  • pixelated humanoid figure

Visible Text

  • LINK

Visually Supported Entities

  • The Legend of Zelda franchise
  • Link character design

Wordwall

  • pixelated character
  • green hair
  • orange tunic
  • brown shield
  • teal grid background
  • black grid lines
  • white text box
  • text LINK
  • 5x5 contact sheet
  • 21 frames
  • standing pose
  • arm movement
  • body rotation
  • dithered edges
  • 8-bit style
  • retro video game art
  • character design consistency
  • pixelated lettering
  • gray transparency area
  • frame-to-frame variation
  • teal color scheme
  • orange skin tone
  • green accents
  • brown shield handle
  • white square text box
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Full source records (1)

Wayback CDX CoolBuddy.com Icon GIF Captures (wayback-coolbuddy-gifs)

Kind
wayback-cdx
Era
Mid-2000s Mega Gallery
Type
Wayback historical mega-gallery crawl
Category
icon / misc / legend zelda
Alt
legend_zelda
Observed
July 8, 2026 at 02:13 UTC
Rights
mixed copyright; research/reference only by default
Slice
large category portal with broad AIM and messenger icon coverage