pengilly

Yanno, the next time I go through a playthrough of Sonic 06, I'm thinking of pausing it on the prettiest shots, and going frame-by-frame to grab the best screenshots. Especially those with Elise and Sonic. I started awhile back, but never finished. I stopped at the point where Eggman was trying to abduct Elise in the opening cutscene.

I got into the habit of actually keeping an organized file of reference images of Princess Elise because I often looked for images of her online. And half the time I'd click into a screencap and it would have some dumb bashing like "Top Ten WORST video game girlfriends!". So rather than slogging through oceans of salt just to find references for Elise's hairstyle, I decided to finally get organized about my images so I wouldn't have to search the web for lost images. It was probably a good habit to get I into anyway. Before I did this, I would have a bunch of randomly-named images in my downloads, if I had even bothered to download the reference at all.

What I have in mind is an advanced version of that. Except instead of a low-res screenshot swiped from a clickbait article, these would be right from the source—the full frame, no downsizing, no nasty text attached, just pure aesthetic. I'd easily be able to make stamps, collages, etc, without having to remember exactly what point in the game a specific moment or pose was.

These are few screencaps I've already taken from the aforementioned cutscene:
A beautifully-rendered screencap of a redheaded girl waving and smiling against a night cityscape.

The same girl bowing her head and accepting a golden, intricately-detailed torch from a cloaked figure.