Animated contact sheet of a pixel-art character in green tunic and red boots performing various actions across multiple frames, including walking through cave-like environments with green stalactites and holding a sword.

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Animated contact sheet of a pixel-art character in green tunic and red boots performing various actions across multiple frames, including walking through cave-like environments with green stalactites and holding a sword.

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Animation

  • walking left-to-right across cave platforms
  • standing still near cave entrances
  • crouching interaction with cave walls
  • sword held upright in multiple positions
  • arm and foot position changes between frames

Animation Summary

Animated contact sheet showing a pixel-art Link character performing walking sequences through cave environments with green stalactites, standing still near cave entrances, crouching interactions, and various sword-holding poses across 25 sampled frames from an animated icon.

Composition

  • contact sheet layout
  • multiple environments in single image
  • character centered in frames
  • cave environment with stalactites
  • black background for weapon poses

Dense Caption

The image is a 5x5 contact sheet displaying 25 sampled animation frames from an animated icon. The central subject is a small pixelated character resembling Link from The Legend of Zelda series, wearing a green tunic with red trim, brown boots, and carrying a shield on their back. In the top-left frame, there's a logo reading "ZELDA" in orange text above a sword graphic. The character appears in multiple environments: light beige cave floors with dark openings surrounded by green stalactites, and solid black backgrounds where only the character is visible. The animation shows sequential movements including walking left-to-right across cave platforms (frames 0-4), standing still near cave entrances (frames 5-12), crouching or interacting with cave walls (frame 13), holding a sword in various positions (bottom rows), and performing action poses like raising the sword. The character's pose changes incrementally between frames, showing different arm positions, foot placements, and weapon handling. All elements are rendered in classic 8-bit pixel art style with limited color palette of greens, browns, reds, and black. The contact sheet has a gray background indicating transparency areas where the icon would appear on AIM's interface.

Description

Animated contact sheet of a pixel-art character in green tunic and red boots performing various actions across multiple frames, including walking through cave-like environments with green stalactites and holding a sword.

Fandoms

  • The Legend of Zelda fandom

Identity Hypotheses

  • Link | basis visible | confidence high | evidence green tunic, red boots, sword, shield matching character design
  • Zelda | basis both | confidence medium | evidence ZELDA logo frame and game context

Metadata Supported By Image

  • ZELDA logo frame
  • green tunic character resembles Link
  • cave environment matches The Legend of Zelda game settings
  • sword and shield are signature items for the series

Named Entities

  • Link
  • Zelda

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • zelda pixel art buddy icon
  • link walking cave animation
  • green tunic sword character
  • 8-bit zelda contact sheet
  • zelda logo animated icon
  • retro gaming buddy icon
  • zelda fan made animation
  • pixel art link character
  • cave environment zelda animation
  • zelda game character avatar

Preprocessing Notes

  • contact sheet layout 5x5
  • 25 sampled animation frames from source frame count of 27
  • gray background indicates transparency areas
  • frames arranged left-to-right then top-to-bottom chronologically

Safety Notes

  • non-explicit cartoon character design
  • no nudity or sexual content visible
  • standard video game character art

Source Metadata Interpretation

source: wayback-coolbuddy-gifs | alt: r_zeldaicon | category: icon / contest / imgs / r zeldaicon | url: r_zeldaicon suggests this is a Zelda-themed buddy icon from an online community or contest

Style

  • 8-bit graphics

Visible Text

  • ZELDA

Visually Supported Entities

  • The Legend of Zelda franchise

Wordwall

  • green tunic character
  • red boots
  • brown shield
  • sword held upright
  • walking animation frames
  • cave environment
  • stalactites
  • beige cave floor
  • black background frames
  • pixel art style
  • 8-bit graphics
  • ZELDA logo frame
  • orange text ZELDA
  • sword graphic
  • character facing left
  • character facing right
  • shield on back
  • red trim on tunic
  • brown boots
  • green hair
  • crouching pose
  • standing still
  • holding sword
  • walking sequence
  • cave entrance frames
  • stalactite background
  • beige cave floor tiles
  • black void backgrounds

Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 8, 2026

Wayback CDX CoolBuddy.com Icon GIF Captures

Source title
r_zeldaicon
Category
icon / contest / imgs / r zeldaicon
Era
Mid-2000s Mega Gallery
Observed
July 8, 2026 at 01:06 UTC

Hmmnd0 Historical AIM Buddy Icon Repository

Source title
iconhell_shroomfan64_zeldaicon
Category
IconHell/Geek
Era
Early-2000s Multi-Gallery Archive
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 13:52 UTC
Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.9 KB
Motion
Animated (27 frames)
Added to archive
July 8, 2026
Relative path
icons/eb/eb7c5e542204245a32c92777817988d3fe87d34fa163877a6f17141d4de0e854.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 10, 2026 at 04:06 UTC
Archive ID
eb7c5e542204245a
SHA-256
eb7c5e542204245a32c92777817988d3fe87d34fa163877a6f17141d4de0e854
Content-safety assessments (3)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
July 24, 2026 at 15:06 UTC
Run
1179
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000541

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagviolence0.000541falsesexual0.000047falseviolence/graphic0.000023falseself-harm0.000007falseillicit0.000007falseharassment0.000004falseillicit/violent0.000002falseharassment/threatening0.000002falseself-harm/intent0.000001falsesexual/minors0.000001falsehate0.000001falseself-harm/instructions0.000000falsehate/threatening0.000000false

Qwen scheduling evidence

Evidence strength is retained for queueing and audit. It does not set the public content-safety verdict.

EvidenceStrengthInputenrichment/visual/violence0.500000image
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 21, 2026 at 03:31 UTC
Run
74
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.114256

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.925737onnx/unsafe0.114256onnx/nsfw0.061044onnx/nsfl0.053212
legacy-enrichmentqwen3-vl:30blegacy-import
Assessed
July 10, 2026 at 19:21 UTC
Run
26
Input
image
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-smart
Overall label
safe
Overall score
0.980000

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flaglegacy/manual-review0.000000falselegacy/nsfw0.000000false
Enrichment records (1)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Animated contact sheet of a pixel-art character in green tunic and red boots performing various actions across multiple frames, including walking through cave-like environments with green stalactites and holding a sword.

Reviewed
July 10, 2026 at 19:21 UTC
Run
26
Version
v3
Elapsed
19,454 ms
Tokens
prompt 3,566, response 1,618

Review tags

  • link character (subject, 0.98)
  • 8 bit graphics (style, 0.97)
  • pixel art style (style, 0.97)
  • green tunic (clothing, 0.96)
  • contact sheet layout (composition, 0.95)
  • zelda pixel art (subject, 0.95)
  • red boots (footwear, 0.94)
  • black background (background, 0.93)
  • zelda logo frame (logo, 0.93)
  • cave environment (setting, 0.92)
  • walking animation (animation, 0.91)
  • beige cave floor (setting, 0.91)
  • stalactites (environment, 0.89)
  • zelda fan art (art style, 0.87)
  • sword held upright (action, 0.85)

Actions

  • walking
  • holding sword
  • crouching
  • standing still
  • facing left
  • facing right

Animation

  • walking left-to-right across cave platforms
  • standing still near cave entrances
  • crouching interaction with cave walls
  • sword held upright in multiple positions
  • arm and foot position changes between frames

Animation Summary

Animated contact sheet showing a pixel-art Link character performing walking sequences through cave environments with green stalactites, standing still near cave entrances, crouching interactions, and various sword-holding poses across 25 sampled frames from an animated icon.

Colors

  • green
  • red
  • brown
  • beige
  • black
  • orange

Composition

  • contact sheet layout
  • multiple environments in single image
  • character centered in frames
  • cave environment with stalactites
  • black background for weapon poses

Dense Caption

The image is a 5x5 contact sheet displaying 25 sampled animation frames from an animated icon. The central subject is a small pixelated character resembling Link from The Legend of Zelda series, wearing a green tunic with red trim, brown boots, and carrying a shield on their back. In the top-left frame, there's a logo reading "ZELDA" in orange text above a sword graphic. The character appears in multiple environments: light beige cave floors with dark openings surrounded by green stalactites, and solid black backgrounds where only the character is visible. The animation shows sequential movements including walking left-to-right across cave platforms (frames 0-4), standing still near cave entrances (frames 5-12), crouching or interacting with cave walls (frame 13), holding a sword in various positions (bottom rows), and performing action poses like raising the sword. The character's pose changes incrementally between frames, showing different arm positions, foot placements, and weapon handling. All elements are rendered in classic 8-bit pixel art style with limited color palette of greens, browns, reds, and black. The contact sheet has a gray background indicating transparency areas where the icon would appear on AIM's interface.

Description

Animated contact sheet of a pixel-art character in green tunic and red boots performing various actions across multiple frames, including walking through cave-like environments with green stalactites and holding a sword.

Fandoms

  • The Legend of Zelda fandom

Identity Hypotheses

  • Link | basis visible | confidence high | evidence green tunic, red boots, sword, shield matching character design
  • Zelda | basis both | confidence medium | evidence ZELDA logo frame and game context

Metadata Supported By Image

  • ZELDA logo frame
  • green tunic character resembles Link
  • cave environment matches The Legend of Zelda game settings
  • sword and shield are signature items for the series

Mood

  • adventurous
  • nostalgic
  • playful

Named Entities

  • Link
  • Zelda

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • zelda pixel art buddy icon
  • link walking cave animation
  • green tunic sword character
  • 8-bit zelda contact sheet
  • zelda logo animated icon
  • retro gaming buddy icon
  • zelda fan made animation
  • pixel art link character
  • cave environment zelda animation
  • zelda game character avatar

Objects

  • green tunic
  • red boots
  • brown shield
  • orange ZELDA text
  • sword graphic

Preprocessing Notes

  • contact sheet layout 5x5
  • 25 sampled animation frames from source frame count of 27
  • gray background indicates transparency areas
  • frames arranged left-to-right then top-to-bottom chronologically

Safety Notes

  • non-explicit cartoon character design
  • no nudity or sexual content visible
  • standard video game character art

Source Metadata Interpretation

source: wayback-coolbuddy-gifs | alt: r_zeldaicon | category: icon / contest / imgs / r zeldaicon | url: r_zeldaicon suggests this is a Zelda-themed buddy icon from an online community or contest

Style

  • pixel art
  • 8-bit graphics
  • retro video game style

Subjects

  • Link character
  • stalactites
  • sword
  • shield

Visible Text

  • ZELDA

Visually Supported Entities

  • The Legend of Zelda franchise

Wordwall

  • green tunic character
  • red boots
  • brown shield
  • sword held upright
  • walking animation frames
  • cave environment
  • stalactites
  • beige cave floor
  • black background frames
  • pixel art style
  • 8-bit graphics
  • ZELDA logo frame
  • orange text ZELDA
  • sword graphic
  • character facing left
  • character facing right
  • shield on back
  • red trim on tunic
  • brown boots
  • green hair
  • crouching pose
  • standing still
  • holding sword
  • walking sequence
  • cave entrance frames
  • stalactite background
  • beige cave floor tiles
  • black void backgrounds
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Full source records (2)

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 / r zeldaicon
Alt
r_zeldaicon
Observed
July 8, 2026 at 01:06 UTC
Rights
mixed copyright; research/reference only by default
Slice
large category portal with broad AIM and messenger icon coverage

Hmmnd0 Historical AIM Buddy Icon Repository (github-hmmnd0-historical-buddy-icon-repository)

Kind
local-directory
Era
Early-2000s Multi-Gallery Archive
Type
public Git mirror containing four organized historical AIM buddy-icon site collections
Category
IconHell/Geek
Title
iconhell_shroomfan64_zeldaicon
Archive entry
IconHell/Geek/iconhell_shroomfan64_zeldaicon.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 13:52 UTC
Rights
mixed anonymous, fan, commercial, and copyrighted imagery; research/reference only by default
Slice
cross-sectional archive of Badass Buddy, CoolBuddy, dollbuddieicons, and IconHell collections spanning personal identity, fandom, music, humor, holidays, sports, relationships, pride, dolls, and internet culture