NEW THINGS ARE HAPPENING.
Ok so my website is back up after a fair amount of debating with the service provider. That's all nice. So now my new dilemma is this: It's coming time to renew my domain name, which is currently pahgawks.com, but I feel like maybe I should rename it now that I have the opportunity. My website has been under this name since I was in the third grade, and for the longest time, I only made videos about "pahgawks" (look at my older videos. Actually, don't; they're bad), so that wasn't a problem. But now I haven't done anything with the characters for a few years, so I think it's time for a change. Unless, of course, my username everywhere is well-known enough that it still works. Basically, it comes down to a question of who the main audience of my website will be: people who already know me online, and people who don't.
Anyway, what do you think? Any domain name recommendations?
Next order of business: I was contacted by a musician to ask if I could make them a music video. So, that'll probably be happening once NATA is over. But since this is something I'd be paid for, I'm going to take more than a month on it to make sure it's as polished as I can make it.
And lastly, about NATA. I'm changing things up this round. I've been getting lower marks in the art and animation categories, and with my current art/animation style, I don't think I can possibly get more points without putting in a ridiculous amount of effort. So instead, I'm changing styles. I've told a lot of people that I'm going to be changing styles anyway to keep things interesting for me while I'm making it, so this was bound to happen anyway. Below is a small example of the sort of atmosphere I'm hoping to create, although I should point out that I still don't have access to my tablet, so the whole thing was drawn with a laptop trackpad using the polygonal lasso tool in Photoshop.
Luis
you should just make it your name imo. for a long time i fought hard to disassociate myself with my freelance thing i had come up with while i was young (brainwashstudios) and it took a long time to finally just be luiscastanon. in hindsight i am glad that i made the switch because my work has gotten theoretically better and it makes me happier to be able to put my actual name behind it. Same sort of thing with my newgrounds username. I like owning the name Luis.
Pahgawk
Yeah, I think that's what I'll do. However, I have a really long name, so I think I might just crop it down (like I do half the time anyway.)