Following in the footsteps of other people/staff page updates, we've just launched a new batch of changes.
New role sections and ordering
Before, people pages had two sections: anime roles and manga roles. This is how most anime databases break the roles down, presumably because that's how everyone else does it. We've changed our sections to match something closer to IMDB, allowing you to look up all roles a person has, by their role (director, character design, voice actor, etc).
For someone with multiple types of roles, the section order depends on what the person's primary role is - voice actors have their VA roles listed first. Someone who's primarily an anime staff (a director, a producer, etc) has anime roles first, sorted in "importance" order (director first, then character design, etc). Mangaka have their author/artist roles listed first.
We'd love your feedback on these sections - I personally wonder if we should have some sort of quick filtering/navigation on the top, since otherwise if someone has multiple types of roles, it can be laborious to find their Character Design vs Voice Actor section. We're open to suggestions on this, or any other feedback on the sections. ^_^
"Known for" information
Also similar to IMDB, we've added a "known for" section at the top. The items shown here are based on an algorithm and (currently) can't be changed manually. It shows the person's top roles for what their main role is (so for people who are primarily voice actors, it will show voice acting roles. Directors will show director roles mostly, etc). If you find any weird "known for" info do let us know, as we can look into tweaking things further.
Here's some before and after images for a few different types of people:
GO NAGAI
MAKOTO SHINKAI
AKIRA TORIYAMA
MEGUMI HAYASHIBARA
Upcoming people/staff page changes, and mods needed!
We're looking into several more changes on these pages:
We're also hoping to get a moderator team going to start methodically updating the people database, and giving it some love, since we've never really had a team looking after it. Tons of the images are still old/small, we need to fix duplicate entries (common in cases where someone writes under a pseudonym, unfortunately), and could start getting descriptions written/added.
We also very badly need to get a team going to help add missing voice actors to the character database - this could potentially be a different "team" than the full people moderators since you'd only be updating roles, not fixing people images.
If you are potentially interested in this, chime in here. For the full role the key is you'd need to be skilled at programs like photoshop (so you don't need to be trained on how to not skew image ratios, how to save good quality images and crop, etc), and would have ample time to help out regularly. For the voice actor team, it's less technically challenging so you'd just need ample time :) For both roles, you'll need google hangouts access (for text chat - you don't need a g+ account, just the chrome plugin). This is how the mod teams communicate for easy, searchable group chat.
Thanks as always for your continued support of Anime-Planet
New role sections and ordering
Before, people pages had two sections: anime roles and manga roles. This is how most anime databases break the roles down, presumably because that's how everyone else does it. We've changed our sections to match something closer to IMDB, allowing you to look up all roles a person has, by their role (director, character design, voice actor, etc).
For someone with multiple types of roles, the section order depends on what the person's primary role is - voice actors have their VA roles listed first. Someone who's primarily an anime staff (a director, a producer, etc) has anime roles first, sorted in "importance" order (director first, then character design, etc). Mangaka have their author/artist roles listed first.
We'd love your feedback on these sections - I personally wonder if we should have some sort of quick filtering/navigation on the top, since otherwise if someone has multiple types of roles, it can be laborious to find their Character Design vs Voice Actor section. We're open to suggestions on this, or any other feedback on the sections. ^_^
"Known for" information
Also similar to IMDB, we've added a "known for" section at the top. The items shown here are based on an algorithm and (currently) can't be changed manually. It shows the person's top roles for what their main role is (so for people who are primarily voice actors, it will show voice acting roles. Directors will show director roles mostly, etc). If you find any weird "known for" info do let us know, as we can look into tweaking things further.
Here's some before and after images for a few different types of people:
GO NAGAI
MAKOTO SHINKAI
AKIRA TORIYAMA
MEGUMI HAYASHIBARA
Upcoming people/staff page changes, and mods needed!
We're looking into several more changes on these pages:
- Ability to leave comments (just like on character pages)
- Automatic descriptions (which call out similar "known for" info) if a manual one doesn't exist
- People tooltips for when you're on an anime or manga page. These in theory will contain the known for info. This is coming soon
We're also hoping to get a moderator team going to start methodically updating the people database, and giving it some love, since we've never really had a team looking after it. Tons of the images are still old/small, we need to fix duplicate entries (common in cases where someone writes under a pseudonym, unfortunately), and could start getting descriptions written/added.
We also very badly need to get a team going to help add missing voice actors to the character database - this could potentially be a different "team" than the full people moderators since you'd only be updating roles, not fixing people images.
If you are potentially interested in this, chime in here. For the full role the key is you'd need to be skilled at programs like photoshop (so you don't need to be trained on how to not skew image ratios, how to save good quality images and crop, etc), and would have ample time to help out regularly. For the voice actor team, it's less technically challenging so you'd just need ample time :) For both roles, you'll need google hangouts access (for text chat - you don't need a g+ account, just the chrome plugin). This is how the mod teams communicate for easy, searchable group chat.
Thanks as always for your continued support of Anime-Planet
