A 4x4 contact sheet of a pixel art animation featuring a yellow stick figure character with white head against blue sky and clouds, showing sequential motion frames including throwing a ball and speech bubble changes.

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A 4x4 contact sheet of a pixel art animation featuring a yellow stick figure character with white head against blue sky and clouds, showing sequential motion frames including throwing a ball and speech bubble changes.

A 4x4 contact sheet of a pixel art animation featuring a yellow stick figure character with white head against blue sky and clouds, showing sequential motion frames including thro…

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Animation

  • frame 0: holding ball
  • frame 1: ball in hand
  • frame 2: ball mid-air
  • frame 3: arm extended after throw
  • frame 4: no speech bubble
  • frame 5: small circular bubble
  • frame 6: medium oval bubble
  • frame 7: large oval bubble with arrow
  • frame 8: empty space

Animation Summary

13-frame animation showing yellow stick figure throwing white ball then displaying speech bubble progression with arrow, arranged in contact sheet layout

Composition

  • 4x4 contact sheet layout
  • top row sequential motion frames
  • middle section speech bubble progression
  • bottom-left isolated frame

Dense Caption

The image is a 4x4 contact sheet displaying 13 sampled frames from an animated icon. The central subject is a small yellow stick-figure character with a white circular head, positioned against a light blue sky background with stylized white clouds. In the top row (frames 0-3), the character holds a white ball in its right hand and appears to throw it across successive frames. Frame 2 shows the ball mid-air while frame 3 depicts the character's arm extended after release. The middle section (frames 4-8) displays speech bubble variations: starting with no bubble, then small circular bubbles growing larger until frame 7 shows a large oval bubble containing a black arrow pointing right. The bottom-left corner contains an isolated frame of the character in its default pose without additional elements. All frames maintain consistent pixel art style with visible dithering on cloud edges and solid color fills. The animation sequence demonstrates motion (throwing) followed by speech bubble progression, suggesting dialogue or action-based communication. A gray transparency background is present but not part of the icon content itself.

Description

A 4x4 contact sheet of a pixel art animation featuring a yellow stick figure character with white head against blue sky and clouds, showing sequential motion frames including throwing a ball and speech bubble changes.

Identity Hypotheses

  • michael_snowball | basis both | confidence 0.6 | evidence: source hint + simple stick figure design matching typical AIM avatar style

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • no visible text or branding confirming 'michael_snowball' name
  • no explicit contest logo or official submission markers in pixels

Metadata Only Entities

  • michael_snowball (character name)
  • contest entry (context)

Metadata Supported By Image

  • character design consistent with simple stick figure animation style
  • speech bubble progression matches communication-focused icon concept

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • yellow stick figure throwing ball animation
  • pixel art speech bubble progression icon
  • AIM buddy icon with arrow in bubble
  • 4x4 contact sheet animated icon frames

Preprocessing Notes

  • contact sheet layout shows 13 sampled frames from animation source
  • gray background indicates transparency area not part of icon content
  • frames arranged left-to-right then top-to-bottom sequence
  • sourceFrameCount=13 matches sampled frame count

Safety Notes

  • non-explicit cartoon character
  • no nudity or sexual content
  • text is purely visual symbols

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • alt: michael_snowball suggests character name or creator alias
  • category: icon / contest / imgs / michael snowball implies official submission context
  • url: michael_snowball indicates potential source URL reference

Visually Supported Entities

  • simple animated buddy character
  • communication-themed icon

Wordwall

  • yellow stick figure character
  • white circular head
  • light blue sky background
  • stylized white clouds
  • white ball prop
  • speech bubble variations
  • small to large oval bubbles
  • black arrow in bubble
  • throwing motion sequence
  • pixel art style
  • dithered cloud edges
  • solid color fills
  • 4x4 contact sheet layout
  • 13 sampled animation frames
  • frame 0 character pose
  • frame 2 mid-throw position
  • frame 7 speech bubble with arrow
  • gray transparency background
  • isolation frame bottom-left
  • sequential action display

Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 8, 2026

Wayback CDX CoolBuddy.com Icon GIF Captures

Source title
michael_snowball
Category
icon / contest / imgs / michael snowball
Era
Mid-2000s Mega Gallery
Observed
July 8, 2026 at 01:05 UTC
Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
3.6 KB
Motion
Animated (13 frames)
Added to archive
July 8, 2026
Relative path
icons/a4/a4fbe518feba2d6029f40984bfa75de2d3c9c6d3680b51dc5fca076cbaece049.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 10, 2026 at 04:06 UTC
Archive ID
a4fbe518feba2d60
SHA-256
a4fbe518feba2d6029f40984bfa75de2d3c9c6d3680b51dc5fca076cbaece049
Content-safety assessments (2)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 06:46 UTC
Run
106
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.111623

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.915389onnx/unsafe0.111623onnx/nsfw0.070152onnx/nsfl0.041471
legacy-enrichmentqwen3-vl:30blegacy-import
Assessed
July 10, 2026 at 19:00 UTC
Run
26
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)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

A 4x4 contact sheet of a pixel art animation featuring a yellow stick figure character with white head against blue sky and clouds, showing sequential motion frames including throwing a ball and speech bubble changes.

Reviewed
July 10, 2026 at 19:00 UTC
Run
26
Version
v3
Elapsed
17,892 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,944, response 1,307

Review tags

  • pixel art style (style, 0.95)
  • white circular head (subject, 0.95)
  • yellow stick figure (subject, 0.95)
  • throwing motion sequence (action, 0.90)
  • 13 sampled animation frames (animation, 0.90)
  • light blue sky background (background, 0.90)
  • white ball prop (object, 0.90)
  • speech bubble variations (symbol, 0.90)
  • stylized white clouds (background, 0.85)
  • black arrow symbol (symbol, 0.85)
  • 4x4 contact sheet layout (composition, 0.80)

Actions

  • holding ball
  • throwing ball
  • speech bubble appearance
  • speech bubble growth
  • arrow pointing right

Animation

  • frame 0: holding ball
  • frame 1: ball in hand
  • frame 2: ball mid-air
  • frame 3: arm extended after throw
  • frame 4: no speech bubble
  • frame 5: small circular bubble
  • frame 6: medium oval bubble
  • frame 7: large oval bubble with arrow
  • frame 8: empty space

Animation Summary

13-frame animation showing yellow stick figure throwing white ball then displaying speech bubble progression with arrow, arranged in contact sheet layout

Colors

  • yellow
  • light blue
  • white
  • gray

Composition

  • 4x4 contact sheet layout
  • top row sequential motion frames
  • middle section speech bubble progression
  • bottom-left isolated frame

Dense Caption

The image is a 4x4 contact sheet displaying 13 sampled frames from an animated icon. The central subject is a small yellow stick-figure character with a white circular head, positioned against a light blue sky background with stylized white clouds. In the top row (frames 0-3), the character holds a white ball in its right hand and appears to throw it across successive frames. Frame 2 shows the ball mid-air while frame 3 depicts the character's arm extended after release. The middle section (frames 4-8) displays speech bubble variations: starting with no bubble, then small circular bubbles growing larger until frame 7 shows a large oval bubble containing a black arrow pointing right. The bottom-left corner contains an isolated frame of the character in its default pose without additional elements. All frames maintain consistent pixel art style with visible dithering on cloud edges and solid color fills. The animation sequence demonstrates motion (throwing) followed by speech bubble progression, suggesting dialogue or action-based communication. A gray transparency background is present but not part of the icon content itself.

Description

A 4x4 contact sheet of a pixel art animation featuring a yellow stick figure character with white head against blue sky and clouds, showing sequential motion frames including throwing a ball and speech bubble changes.

Identity Hypotheses

  • michael_snowball | basis both | confidence 0.6 | evidence: source hint + simple stick figure design matching typical AIM avatar style

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • no visible text or branding confirming 'michael_snowball' name
  • no explicit contest logo or official submission markers in pixels

Metadata Only Entities

  • michael_snowball (character name)
  • contest entry (context)

Metadata Supported By Image

  • character design consistent with simple stick figure animation style
  • speech bubble progression matches communication-focused icon concept

Mood

  • playful
  • communicative

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • yellow stick figure throwing ball animation
  • pixel art speech bubble progression icon
  • AIM buddy icon with arrow in bubble
  • 4x4 contact sheet animated icon frames

Objects

  • white ball
  • speech bubbles
  • black arrow

Preprocessing Notes

  • contact sheet layout shows 13 sampled frames from animation source
  • gray background indicates transparency area not part of icon content
  • frames arranged left-to-right then top-to-bottom sequence
  • sourceFrameCount=13 matches sampled frame count

Safety Notes

  • non-explicit cartoon character
  • no nudity or sexual content
  • text is purely visual symbols

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • alt: michael_snowball suggests character name or creator alias
  • category: icon / contest / imgs / michael snowball implies official submission context
  • url: michael_snowball indicates potential source URL reference

Style

  • pixel art
  • low-resolution animation
  • dithered edges

Subjects

  • yellow stick figure character
  • white circular head

Visually Supported Entities

  • simple animated buddy character
  • communication-themed icon

Wordwall

  • yellow stick figure character
  • white circular head
  • light blue sky background
  • stylized white clouds
  • white ball prop
  • speech bubble variations
  • small to large oval bubbles
  • black arrow in bubble
  • throwing motion sequence
  • pixel art style
  • dithered cloud edges
  • solid color fills
  • 4x4 contact sheet layout
  • 13 sampled animation frames
  • frame 0 character pose
  • frame 2 mid-throw position
  • frame 7 speech bubble with arrow
  • gray transparency background
  • isolation frame bottom-left
  • sequential action display
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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 / contest / imgs / michael snowball
Alt
michael_snowball
Observed
July 8, 2026 at 01:05 UTC
Rights
mixed copyright; research/reference only by default
Slice
large category portal with broad AIM and messenger icon coverage