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TO DO: Secret Project KB

Wednesday, July 18th, 2012 at 10:45 am

(or kotobishoujo.com)

I purchased the domain for this site on Oct 18, 2011. I had the idea/passion to make this site about 9 months ago…but could only do it when warrenshea.com was finished, a project that took…..much longer than it should have.

I think around the end of May, I finished warrenshea.com…so I’ve had a month and a half of having this project as my focus. To be honest, it’s coming a lot slower than I expected. Here’s my checklist of things I’ve done

~~buying the domain~~
~~designing the basic layout~~
~~developing the basic functionality~~
~~pouring in content~~
fix the search and make it look nicer
create a logo
pour more content into the blog
go to various sites and look up prices for each statue (time consuming and tedious)
~~buy a camera~~
- learn how to use the camera to take professional shots (time consuming)
- take pictures of all the statues (super time consuming)
- create a gallery for each figure

Overall, it’s a bit overwhelming how much work is involved, not to mention the maintenance of it all. I need to be on top of kotobukiya bishoujo information! It’s harder than I thought it would be.

Anyways, there’s still a long way to go. I’m working on tons of things all the time, like learning about photography…for the site.

ETA on completion: who knows :/

Anyways, I just wanted to write about this project as it’s now the focus of my free time. This is to help me stay organized :) I feel better when I’m organized!

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DSLR Example – Wonder Woman

Tuesday, July 17th, 2012 at 12:33 am

I’m in the process of doing 16 angle shots of each of my bishoujo characters for my kotobishoujo.com site.

This was taken by me O_O. It looks so professional…though not as professional as it could :/

Here’s an example. Click for a larger image (Warning, the larger image is 4.89 MB).

Hmmm, as I compare this image with some professional images, I notice the color is off on my character. Not sure why. I’ll have to investigate.

Update

This one is truer to the real colors..it still doesn’t look right though!

Update 2

with gray card

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Life + Secret Project KB Updates

Sunday, June 24th, 2012 at 11:18 pm

My life’s been busy the last few day and will continue to be busy for another few weeks. I can’t write about why, unfortunately. Maybe in a few weeks, I’ll let you guys and girls know what’s up.

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My Secret Project KB has been progressing well though I haven’t been able to work on it nearly as much as I would have liked.

I did hit my first milestone: 45 retroactive blog posts. Retroactive because I’m way behind in releasing the site and I want users that go to it to think I’ve been around a while :)
This is only about 1/4 of the site’s content.

Next is to build pages on 42 products.
And build 4 other pages after that.

It’s going to be time consuming but I know what I have to do…it shouldn’t be that hard. And it should be fun! :D

Anyways, I’m just blogging because I’m procrastinating something else, more important. Sigh.

Back to studying…(yes, studying!)

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The last few weeks have been busy…

Tuesday, June 12th, 2012 at 1:14 am

I can’t believe it’s “only” been 3 weeks since I released warrenshea.com

I’ve been working hard on my Secret Project KB almost immediately after warrenshea.com but there’s still a long way to go. This site, like warrenshea.com, is mostly content based so I can see things taking a long time. There is a blog portion and within the last 21 days, I’ve written 28 short posts, as well as deved the shell of the site. There’s still quite a bit that needs to be done.

I know I haven’t been blogging much but I assure you guys that I’m still working hard. And to be honest, that’s what really matters for me. It feels absolutely great working on a new project and I can’t wait til this is done and I can start another side project or my epic project.

On another note: That Zelda Symphony I’m going to in Sept is coming up pretty quick and I realize I haven’t been playing and beating Zelda: Majora’s Mask or Zelda: Twilight Princess like I wanted to. I’ve been thinking I should prioritize those games over my projects…but I really don’t want to do that >_< . . . It's been 2.5 years since I stopped playing World of Warcraft. I feel like I've done so much in that time. I've really looked hard at the people around me and who I want to surround myself with and why. I've discovered so much about life, constantly thinking about where I'm headed and how I want to get there. There are so many people that are still lost in life. Don't know what to do professionally. Aren't good at their jobs. Don't know what to do with their life. And while I might not be certain of my path, I know that right now, I'm headed in the right direction. Despite all my talk about job and career, I don't believe I'm professionally ambitious. I'm not working for the money, I'm working for the experience. For the love of this hobby/profession. Not very many people can do that. I feel very fortunate that since World of Warcraft, I've been able to dedicate myself to what I believe is a future worth having. All the time spent both free and during work, done with love and passion...for a goal that has no end. You spend 8+ hours a day working. How can you waste that much of your life doing something you don't love? I think the theme of my life the last 2 years has been improvement and motivation. Those 2 things have been the driving force in my life. Well, I think improvement is always something that’s part of everyone’s life but I’ve really been paying attention to those 2 things. And the people that help me achieve them.

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Sorry, I know this post is all over the place. Many topics. I’m just writing some things that have been on my mind lately.

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Secret Project KB Update

Monday, June 4th, 2012 at 1:51 am

Alright. I suck.

It’s been 1.5 weeks since I posted about this project, since I linked to here:
http://worldofwarren.com/projects/secretprojectkb/
The truth is, working in this directory didn’t seem useful as I had to integrate WordPress into this site again.
So I haven’t updated it in a while. My apologies to those who may have been checking it hoping for something new.

I’ve still been working on this project…while playing Diablo 3, which I want to slow down a bit. I feel WoW type behaviour and that bothers me. While I played a lot this weekend, I’ve also been deving all night :D

Anyways. If you want the new link to my sandbox/live link, go here.

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