I just finished cleaning up most of the Pacific picture archives. I now have something like 2210 draft, sketch, and other images on hand that I haven’t collected before.
Like, I’m sure I’ve posted this SOMEWHERE, but a look around shows that I haven’t?
So yeah, stuff like this. Old designs that we ultimately discarded in favor of something else.
Pose exercises like these that we ended up settling on something else.
Stuff like that. It’s kind of sobering to see how much stuff is out there. Gonna take me weeks to sort everything out.
Moral of today’s story, guys? Keep things organized while you can. I’m gonna crash now. Night. 🙂
What, you didn’t think we’ve stopped actually working on Pacific just because I’m re-organizing content, did you?
Work is never-ending. 🙂 Besides, if it’s a hobby, it’s not really work.
Say it’s the year 1992 and the President has just appointed me (I’m a two-star admiral) in charge of some segment of the world’s oceans to defend.
What stuff does STEC have to help me with my job?
Which shipgirl is the best?
How many can I get?
First of all, Abyssals come in all shapes and sizes. I’ve said this one before. It’s really not a one-size fits all solution.
Secondly, shipgirls aren’t Pokemon. Mike isn’t shouting orders at them and telling them to fire. While there’s definitely a command, control, and communication element to his job, STEC’s commander is, at the end of the day, managing a (reasonably) small group of highly powerful individuals.
Thirdly, this sort of ties in what we’re probably going to do with the site.
DEFENSE tends to be our test-bed for new layouts and new configurations. The Japanese folks for some reason have a culture of preview books, and this year I thought I’d not just give them what they’ll get in the actual Pacific book, but more information instead.
So, I stared at a bunch of old naval records – people familiar with the military will likely recognize the inspiration (and much of the criteria) for what this is.
My current plan is to use the fact that websites have near-unlimited spacing to seriously revamp the character profiles. A lot of information can be communicated in this way. I’m just trying to figure out the best way to do it, since I’d rather not do another spring cleaning again.
Yes. Day 3. Not 1 or 2 because I’ve been at this for two whole days.
Currently I am dealing with
290ish articles posted on the site, to be properly organized and beaten into shape.
About close to 1 million or so words and about 1000 word documents of Pacific drafts, notes, designs, and etc. Some should be posted. Others need to be revised.
That picture above is 1/1603 or about 30,000 sketches that we’ve accumulated over the last two and a half, three years. This is to say nothing of completed works. Historical stuff.
I’m doing my best. xD Talk to you guys in a few more days. Zero should have pictures from Comiket and the Chengdu convention, too. He’s just been traveling a lot. The others are as usual, busy. 🙂
Effective immediately, the entirety of our website will undergo critical infrastructural upgrades.
Website may experience oddities and downage as we begin our reorganization process.
This notice will remain in effect until revoked.
(By upgrade, I really mean, “a bunch of people who have no business actually putting websites together experiment with upgrading plugins and interfaces.”)
