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 Everything You Always Wanted to Know About the Gallery *
         * But Were Afraid to Ask
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 * About the Gallery
* How to Navigate
* Usage Policies
* Credits/I Love Yous
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         * About the Gallery
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The reconstruction of this gallery was a massive project started in November of 2006 and completed in March of 2008. It constitutes a considerable move up from the original gallery. The content was entirely overhauled. Images were rescanned and cleaned up to be lossless and clean and offerable at 2000 pixels wide in PNG24 format. The series and movie were recapped in epic scale, including putting together panned shots into one image. Additional artwork was added, including character designs, background, and vehicle designs for both the movie and series.
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         * How to Navigate
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Use of the gallery should be fairly straightforward, the content is sorted by subject. Anime or movie, artwork or screenshots, etc. There is a search function, but it's not yet complete, so don't rely on it. Hundreds of thousands of tags need to be written to over ten thousand images before the gallery is completely searchable. At that time a more specific FAQ will be written on how to use it. For now, the easiest way to go about it is by character name. Do note that the search is limited to the page you search from. Meaning if you're on the page that lists the episodes from the Black Rose Saga, searching 'Touga' will only return hits from those folders. If you search from episode 12, it will only return hits from episode 12.
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         * Usage Policies
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The rules for use of these images are simple. Do whatever you like with them. That's what they're for. Make website layouts and wallpapers. Print them out and plaster them on your walls. Use them to analyze and recall events from the story. I'll even allow, within reasonable limits, the use of no more than fifty or so images at a time for your own site galleries. All I ask is that when and where you do use them, you credit me, and link back to Empty Movement. The gallery is meant to be a resource for you, the fans, to use as you will, but I put a staggering amount of time into that resource and would appreciate being credited for that time. If you have any questions about using these images, please contact me: Giovanna (mrsakio@ohtori.nu)
Where the issue of direct linking is concerned: Members of EM's forum, In the Rose Garden, may direct link from the gallery into forum threads as they like, since it's our forum anyway. (To get the absolute URL of an image for pasting into a thread, right click the image and 'Copy address'.) If you're posting elsewhere or using the images for your own site, move them to a Photobucket account or your own site hosting, please! Don't make me turn off direct linking.
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         * Credits/I Love Yous
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There are many people I have to thank for contributing to this project. Some offered content I couldn't obtain on my own, others offered coding help, and still others were there just cheering me on when I got aggrevated with it.

Thanks first must go to Yasha, who co-runs Empty Movement with me. Not to cheapen her imaging contributions, but without her listening to my bitching about Photoshop this and PHP that, I'd probably have had a vector-induced brain aneurysm. Similarly, the members of In the Rose Garden offered support, cheering me on. Thanks guys. :)

Numerous people contributed content to the gallery, foremost among them Blade (C&A Productions), who must be the only other person on the planet that would sink so much time into a gallery. The game screenshots and sketchbook, the Newtype art special, the game cards, and many of the character design sheets were donated by him. Also, the screencaps from the series that were on the old gallery were his, though I've since recapped them myself. Sorry about that, Blade. ;)

Rushita (Rushita.com) contributed the absolutely gorgeous E-graphics cards from the movie, which you can tell by the elaborate border art. She was even so kind as to rescan them for the new gallery at unholy resolution, and what you see now is the result of my cleaning those scans. MissMocha, of forum fame, purchased and loaned me a gigantic collection of character designs from the movie, as well as background art. Frosty, also of the forums, helped her pay for this rather pricy piece of SKUdom. They both still owe me naughty fanarts of Akio.

Other forum members also contributed: Dani loaned me two books with new artwork, as well as the secret to the specific model of Akio's car. (Yay!) Arki and Frosty helped clean up scans of the character designs.

Special thanks are also due to the forums members that are helping me with the tedious process of writing the search tags: MissMocha, satyreyes, and Frosty. (Yep, there are a few repeats here. You guys are awesome.)

Various scans and odd ends were donated by people over the years. Thank yous go to Himemiya, Fireye, Kiryuu, Shirono, wanderingstar, Laurie, and Kimi. Further love goes to Almaser, Copyman, Mylene, and dundundun of the forums for providing source material for the addition of the new material from the DVDs.

Thank you all of you! :)