Website : Marching on March

posted 2010.03.04 at 17:46

So much for February. What did I accomplish, ATC-wise? A bit of DCR script development, an initial draft of the first part of TV2 that has a viable shape but is going to require extensive rewriting and retooling to become useable, some deliberation on the shape of the website, a lot of bitching about CSS on IRC, and my first full UVW unwrap and texturing of a vehicle.

I've unwrapped bits before - notably the more difficult parts of the Aeon - but until this past weekend, I'd never done an entire ship by myself. It was more of a confidence building experiment than anything else - the ship in question has been rusting along with a few others (The Banshee, the Astra, as well as a tanker, cargo ship, corvette, passenger liner and cruiser all slated for appearance in TV.3) for quite awhile now. It feels good to have something done, even if it isn't the website, even if it's only going to show up in a few panels at most. Money shots after it shows up in-comic. We've already seen the passenger cabin in DCR.1, and the first external appearance will be a few pages from now in DCR.2.

So there's that, which doesn't have much to do with the website. It is an eyedropper expunged from the vast ocean that is the CG Backlog, so while nothing much happened on the web front in February, I did make a tiny bit of progress on CG assets. Combine that with the one-night crash modeling of Whitehouse's megaphone in January and I've managed a whopping two objects in two months.

I'm going to need to improve on that, obviously.

Which means I'm going to have to get to grips with things what have been dragging me down or otherwise sucking up my time lately, which also means getting realistic about the Order Of Operations, which means I really need to upgrade the website before I start waterboarding myself with 3d Studio MAX again.

Fortunately it's been sorted out on paper fairly extensively - and with some help from a couple of friends on IRC (who will get plenty of credit in the build notes), I'll be able to get over my Fear of CSS. Which puts "make the interface" next on the TDL.

It's been "next" on the TDL for a couple of weeks.

Fortunately, March is still Q1, and I set "ATC Website" as one of my major goals for Q1. I should be able to hit that for graphics and CSS - new content, well... that's another matter!