MysteryBen

February 2026 Update-

End of Year Post 2025-

October 2025 Update-

Hey all, time for an update (Which may or may not have been somewhat delayed on account of Silksong...)!

First up, thanks again to everyone I got to meet up with a Colossal-Con! I hope everyone had a good time both there and at all the other shows in the recent Mystery Skulls Tour!

This time around we're showing off a pair of shots that are close to completion! There are still some small things to add and tweak to these but the bulk of the work is in place here.

This prett...

Colossalcon notice!

Hey all, for those of you going to Colossalcon this year, I will try to be around for the day of the Mystery Skulls show, tomorrow on the 16th! Hopefully I'll get to see some of you there!

https://colossalcontexas.com/event-announcement-mystery-skulls-meet-greet/

July 2025 Update-

Hey all, apologies for the schedule being a bit out of whack.

For this update, we got a very concerned Arthur, ready to freak out at a moment's notice.

Video work continues, with many of the outdoor area backgrounds complete, additional effects getting done, and more shots being put through the post processing ringer!

Before we head in to next month, I wanted to post a reminder for the Mystery Skulls 2025 Ultra Rare Tour! It will be starting up he...

May 2025 Update-

Hey all,

Apologies for the delay on this month's update, things have been a bit busy on our end.

As a reminder from the post from last month, Mystery Skulls will be on tour starting next month, so if you wanna snag some tickets for that, hit up the link below!

https://mysteryskullshq.com/pages/tour-dates

For video news, the Background journey continues! The above screenshot is one of...

Mystery Skulls Ultra Rare Tour 2025!

Hey all!

Still a bit jet lagged from the Japan trip but here's a quick message on account that Mystery Skulls wanted me to let everyone know about the upcoming Ultra Rare Tour!

You should be able to get your tickets for it here!

The shows start on June 20th in San Francisco and go from there!

Checkout the link below for the place to order tickets!

https://mysteryskullshq.com/pages/to...

March/April 2025 Update-

Hey all, It's time for a monthly update!

Though this time around it will be accounting for both February AND March, as I will not be around to do an update then. As mentioned in the previous update, I'll be on a family trip in Japan so the update after this will be May!

For this month, we've got Arthur running across some freshly installed background!

Like last month, the major focus was on background art. We are still pluggin' away at it, with the screenshot above indee...

February 2025 Update-

Hey all, time for the February update!

January was by and largely focused around getting things prepared for background artists, with the screenshot of the month being a recent product of that!

We still got plenty left to do in this department but we're at least getting some progress on that front.

We are also getting prepared to get some post production editing/effects going so that we can get what we have unified and purdy to look at.

The next few months are certainl...

January 2025 Update-

Happy New Years 2025!

We're only a few days in and Mystery is already exhausted!

As the Holidays wrap up, we're hoping to get back in the swing of things!
We still got those BGs to get underway and we're just about to get started on animating the last remaining shot left.

So I didn't think this year was going to be the Year of the Snake.

As such, it seemed way too good of an opportunity to do something with the Deadbeats, who are already 90% snake as it is.
...

2024 Wrap Up Update-

Heya all, time to do an update to wrap up 2024!

For the last screenshot of the year, we've got a falling Vivi from quite early on in the video!

We're starting to get ramped up on the Background side of things! We have a few of them coming in right now with potentially a bigger push happening soon, so we'll hopefully make some nice progress on that front!

We're definitely running into the Holiday cycle so people are certainly getting busy around this time. Still, animation w...

Patreon changes for iOS users???

So this is not specifically a me thing, but a site wide change where I'm hearing that if you purchase a Patreon membership SPECIFICALLY through the iOS app, you get charged an extra 30% fee on it, which seems to purely go to Apple and no one else (Me OR Patreon).

It seems you will be fine if you did this before this month, but starting TODAY this change seems to go into effect.

As such, if you get your subscriptions through the iOS versions of this, please use either the desktop o...

August/September 2024 Update-

Hey everyone, apologies for missing out on last month, but it's time to get a new update out the door.

First off, thanks to everyone who watched the Higher music video! For those of you that caught the Rhythm Heaven Studio version from earlier, this was an attempt to flesh it out into its own small video that I worked on in my downtime.

Thanks to Kevin Fagaragan for the thumbnail art!
https://x.com/KevinFagaraga...

July 2024 Update-

Heya all, time for the July Update-

A new BONUS video is coming soon!

Note that it is NOT the next Mystery Skulls Animated video, but something more of a stand alone throwback to Money.

Those of you paying attention to the Patreon can likely figure out what this may be already!

But the video in question is completely finished and uploaded to Youtube already. I will most likely be posting it around the middle of August!

Meanwhile, though, fate though it'd be su...

June 2024 Update-

Heya all, it's time for the June Patreon Update.

As I alluded to last month, this month's update will be on the brisk side as I had a fair amount of things to tend to outside of the video work, some of which is going to bleed over into July as well.

We got Vivi dealing with headaches of her own for the screenshot of the month.

The team was largely dealing with getting more progress in with the ever daunting task of getting Murder Mystery all drawn and cleaned up. I personal...

May 2024 Update-

Hey all, it's time for the May Patreon Update-

VIDEO NEWS-

The screenshot for this month is a fresh off the press Arthur shot!

*EDIT: Replaced the .gif with a new one to fix some button shenanigans on the vest, thanks for catching that!

We've got more and more shots crossing a similar finish line, as a lot of my personal work this past month mostly involved shot correction. I'm sure I've mentioned this before but the shots left remaining involve the big, complex lad...

April 2024 Update-

Hey all, time for an April Update-

This month will bit a bit dry on the video news side of things. By and large it was mostly the typical cleaning up of shots and doing corrections on the shots we got turned in. Meanwhile we are still waiting for other things to get turned in so unfortunately there isn't anything terribly tantalizing to show off this month.

There are a few other housekeeping things to go over in other news though-

The MSA Shop-

2024-05-03 04:21:29 +0000 UTC View Post

March 2024 Update-

Hey all, time for the March 2024 Update!

Up first, I'd like to link to the Mystery Skulls Forever Lofi album!

This was the thing I was alluding to the previous month, though at the time I was only expecting the Ghost Lofi version and not the entire album!

For the visual side, I asked Gene over at Jellybox Studios to see if they could come up with a MSA version of the "Lofi Girl", of which Vivi was kind of the obvious go-to choice to substitute in with that! They did a great...

February 2024 Update-

As of an hour ago, the Vivi and Arthur Campaign has now concluded!

The final totals are-

Arthur at 1347 plushes
Vivi at 1332 plushes

A combined 2679 have been sold and are ready to get produced!

The plushes are expected to get shipped out May 19 so it won't be too long for it to reach all of you!

A huge thanks to everyone who ordered anything, every order is greatly appreciated!  And thanks to Makeship for being awesome folks to work with!

T...

Ben Tries Heaven Studio

I don't imagine Youtube would like the upload of this so here's an off the record post wherein I try using Heaven Studio for the first time.

*EXTREMELY* loosely based on a video idea I had even before Mystery Skulls Animated was a thing.  May upload the stuff to play it a bit later!

MSA Store and Plush Update!

https://mysteryskullsanimated.com/
2024-02-14 01:22:53 +0000 UTC View Post

Campaign Goal Met!

It took less than a day but we've already reached the campaign goal for both Arthur and Vivi plushes!

That means production will be going through!

Thank you all for the massive support!

***VIVI/ARTHUR PLUSH CAMPAIGN NOTICE UPDATE***

If you bought the Vivi/Arthur combo and did NOT get the discount, Makeship should now be going in and fixing that on their end!  No need to refund it yourself now!

January Update/Vivi and Arthur Plush Campaign!

https://www.makeship.com/products/vivi-plush
https://www.makeship.com/products/arthur-plush

Hey all!  Time for the monthly update.

This time we start up February with a new Makeship campaign, this time with Arthur and Vivi plushes!

If you caught me mentioning I was working on...

Coming February 1st!

December 2023 Update-

Heya all, time for the monthly update, give or take a few days in to the New Year.

We have survived the holiday gauntlet!

As mentioned in the previous update the holidays have made things a bit hard to work on things, but even still, we've had a number of shots animated and cleaned up throughout December, largely involving the epilogue sequence.

Meanwhile, I've been tinkering away with a small side thing that I need to get ready in time for February.  The screenshot for...

November 2023 Update-

Hey all!

Time for a November update!

As mentioned previously, me and the team were predisposed with an event at the start of the month.  It was the first time me and the rest of the core members of the crew were able to meet up in person together, (outside of MOST of the crew gathering together at conventions years ago, anyhow)!  

That, combined with Thanksgivings, made for a tricky month to work on video stuff, though regardless we got a few shots wrapped up and c...

October 2023 Update-

Heya,

Ben here!

This month's post will be a bit brief, as I will be predisposed this week.

For anyone who missed the spooky game streams of Signalis, the VODs should be up on my Youtube page's Live tab!

For the love of GOD skip the water puzzle segment.  Just please pretend the water puzzle never happened.

I prepared a video for people that don't tend to know about the Patreon page for Youtube, and while it is a bit redundant here, the second half contains u...

September 2023 Update-

Hey all, time for the September update!

Video News

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For this month, we can finally show off some of the background artwork we have coming in!
They are currently in the layout phase, so they haven't quite yet been colored, but we figured showing off some WIPs would be nice to show off since we've mostly shown the animation so far!

Much like the previous video, a lot of it features a very beat up Ki...

Patreon August Update-

Arthur cowers in fear before the August Update

Heya everyone, it's time for the August Update!

This month's news is probably going to be fairly brisk in comparison to last month.

Video News-

Production is still continuing at its usual pace.  Much of the focus of this month was getting in rough animation towards our Epilogue segment.  About 7 out of the 26 Epilogue shots have been finalized enough to move onto clean up, with a handful...