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July 2023 Update-

Hey All, time for the July Update-

*UPDATE FOR THE PREVIOUS MONTH*

So last month we showed the .gif of Vivi running, though keen eyed observers pointed out that she was missing her headband.  We have so rarely drawn Vivi from the back that we didn't even pick it up until it was pointed out so we've now got it in there!  Thanks again to everyone who pointed it out!

MSA Video News (This Month)-

As for Video news proper this mon...

June 2023 Update-

Time for the June update!

Summer has certainly hit full force over here...  My schedule has gotten more nocturnal just so I don't have the deal with the sun so much.

For the screenshot this month, we got a heroically running Vivi.  Hopefully its cooler where she's going.

Video News

This was a more straight forward month.  By and large it was just the usual grind of working on things, which in my personal case was getting sho...

May 2023 Update-

Time for the May Update!

The Makeship Deadbeat campaign has now concluded with 1586 plushes sold!

It's hard to articulate how blown away I am with the support shown on the campaign.  Before we kicked off the campaign, I was a bit worried that we wouldn't have meet the initial 200 amount required to get the plushes made.  

It took, what, like less than a day for it to reach that amount?  That certainly took a load off my mind making the goal that qui...

April 2023 Update-

Hey all, now that I am back from Japan, it is time for the April Update!

Obviously the big thing to go over is the release of the Deadbeat Plush from Makeship!

https://www.makeship.com/products/deadbeat-plush

It's only been a few days, but the plush campaign has already reached enough sales to be guaranteed to be produced!  Thank you to everyone who has picked up one already!  ...

February 2022 Update-

Hey all!

Time for the February Update and this time around we got something special to show off-

The official Deadbeat Plush!

We talked with Makeship to see if we could make a plush with them and I just recently got the prototype in my hands and it looks great!

So, for those unaware, the way Makeship works is that there will be a 3 week campaign in which to preorder the plush.  Should enough preorders go through (200), production will kick off and the plush will g...

January 2023 Update-

Arthur gawks at the January Update

Hello everyone, time for the Monthly update!

Paperwork!  The most thrilling of activities that I'm confident all you of are just bursting at the seams to hear about...!  ...Yeah this month was a bit bogged down by paperwork both personal and video related.

Regardless, video progress still marches on.  Rough and cleaned up shots are still coming in.  

Background artists are ramping up and doing concept work...

December/New Years Update-

Happy December Update/New Years!

(....I'm a bit late from getting this card finished up.)

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There won't be a ton to video news to report on for this past month, as it was mostly just continuing getting rough animating turned in and having meetings for finalizing some things.

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On the merch side of things, thank you to everyone that pre-ordered a thing for the Winter Sale!  I'll try to let ...

Winter Sale going on now!

https://mysteryskullsanimated.com/ 

Winter Pre-Order Sale* should be live now!

In addition to a few new designs, pre-orders for some specialty items are live as well, including an Arthur-like Vest and a Lewis themed Varsity Jacket!  We have restocked the pins as well!

Sale will last from today til January 1st!

*Note that these are for Pre-Orders and that the actual product has not be p...

November Update-

Hey all,

Time for the November update!

So first off, we are trying to get things ready for our Winter Sale.  For our monthly screenshot, I'm showing off two new T-Shirt designs.

The "Beam Me Up" Shirt, which I previously showed off has finally been constructed and assuming there is no upcoming feedback, should be ready to go!  Again, thanks to @nelnalium for the initial treatment of the design! 2022-12-01 05:07:56 +0000 UTC View Post

October Update-

Hey All, time for the October Update!

I guess this month marks our 8th year anniversary since the original Ghost was released!  Again, apologies we aren't able to release the new video around this time to go along with that, but we are still knee deep in production.

We wanted to show off something pretty beefy for this month, though, so the image for this month is the very first shot of the video!  Some intense Murder Mystery spinning kicks things off.

I still need...

September Update-

Lewis is... not sure what to make of the September Update-

Our shared screenshot shows off Lewis with his hands full with something.

That something you ask?

A Tumblr Sexy Man Tournament, apparently???

So a few weeks back, a twitter tournament for the #1 Tumblr Sexy Man went down.  

In said tournament, our boy Lewis was up against Professor Venomous (From OK KO) in the very first round.  

Unfortunately, without having much of a grudge against him o...

August Update + Notice About the Release Date

Hey all.

I wanted to get this news out there now so I that I wouldn't blindside people with it the month-of, but due to several factors, the video will NOT be releasing this October nor likely this year.

I had originally stated that October was something of an ideal goal point in releasing the video since that October time frame is pretty significant for us historically.  I did not want to hard confirm that date until I had some better idea when things would ...

July Update-

Hey all, 

Time for a monthly update!

The stuff we are showing off this month is the cleaned and colored shot of the Deadbeat scene we showed off the month before last!  One thing of particular note here is how unexpectedly technical it is to add in the heart beats they have in their centers.  This is *BY FAR* the most we've ever had them move about, so getting the hearts all beating properly is a lot of set up.  Traditionally, we would also have thei...

June Update-

Hey all,

Time for June's Patreon Update.

This month's preview features a very ominous snapping... from a very ominous character...

This is perhaps the most spoilery thing we can show off but remains vague enough for us to be able to show it off!

Overall, video progress is coming along evenly this month.

We are extremely close to finalizing the entire second pass on the animatic, and we've gotten a handful of newer folks to help in on the animation front.

We...

May Update-

Hey all, time for May's update!

First off, I want to again thank everyone that showed up to the Mystery Skulls Tour!

I was able to show up to one show and chat with some folks, which was something I haven't done for roughly 2 years.  For those that were able to meet up with me, thank you again for your kindness and support!

Here's some foota...

April Patreon Update-

Heya everyone,

This month's update is probably going to be a fairly brisk one.

As mentioned in the last update we are running thin on things to openly display that aren't just slathered in spoilers, and this month is getting hit by that.

Work across the board is going at a pretty even pace at the moment.  A big thing that I personally worked on was attempting to create a Toon Boom puppet from scratch, something I haven't tried before.  It's not the most feature ric...

March Update-

Heya all, 

Rolling right into update time!

MYSTERY SKULLS: BEAM ME UP TOUR REMINDER-

In case anyone missed it, it's time to remind folks about the upcoming tour centered around Mystery Skulls's new album, Beam Me Up.

Link here for the Tour Dates and links to tickets! 

VIDEO NEWS-

Video news is going to sound pretty similar to last...

February Update-

Hey all,

Time to share a few things for the February update-

MYSTERY SKULLS ALBUM / TOUR-

https://mysteryskullshq.com/

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

The new Mystery Skulls album, Beam Me Up, is now up for preorders!

To go along with this, Mystery Skulls will be going on tour...

Losing My Mind (Full Comic)

The full "Losing My Mind" comic in one place!

January 2022 Update-

New year, new Mystery Skulls Animated update! 

Comic Update-

With these last 2 pages our mini comic comes to an end. Thanks again to @Purpah and Caitlin Pennell for their amazing contributions to this project.  I will be trying to create a Patreon page that has all the pages in it shortly after this so that we have a place to view the entire thing all at once.

Video Update-

As far as video ...

New Years Update-

Happy New Years everyone!

For this months update we have the next page in the comic!  

Credit to @purpah for helping us get all this made!

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Video Progress-

Last time we had mentioned that we were looking out for Storyboard artists.  I want to thank everyone that submitted a portfolio out to us!  At the moment it looks like we'...

November Update- Comic Pages 7 & 8 + Looking for Artists

Hey all!

Hope everyone has had, and continues to have good Holidays lately!  For this November post, we got two more pages of @thepurpah's Losing My Mind comic!  We are getting pretty close to the conclusion on this, so there will be two more entries left!

In video news, we actually have something to ask this time around.

At this present moment, our Storyboard artists are currently bogged down wi...

PREORDER Reminder!

For those that picked up the shirts for our recent sell:

Keep in mind that they were PRE-ORDERS, so they should be in production right about now.  Hopefully we can get them out to you all ASAP once they have been printed!

👻 🎃 💀...Give me something sweet to bite...💀 🎃 👻

7th Anniversary sale~

*STORE UPDATE*  

While we still have some reserve supply going through the system which can possible get snagged up the Lewis Plush is now SOLD OUT!    

Given how fast it got snapped up, we'll have to look into a round 2 with them!  

The new shirts are still pre-orderable though!

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https://mysterysk...

September Update~

Hey all, time for an update~

This month's featured picture is a shot we just got finished off!  What's the context here?  We'll you'll just have to speculate for the time being...  Also pictured this month is a new shirt design coming down the pipeline by @KeyInk_Art!  While we aren't 100% sure it'll make it in time for next month's plushy pre-order sale special, we'll still have the past two designs mentioned in earlier posts ready to go!

Again, while we are s...

August Update~

Heya all, time for the August update!

Thanks again for everyone that was able to show up for the Mystery Skulls Animated - Ghost premiere in Fortnite!  Hope everyone who participated had fun there.  The video shown was actually a slightly higher resolution one than the one we currently have up, though whether or not that was obvious is hard to say given it was playing in the game.

We got sent the above picture of the constructed Lewis plushes not long ago, as we have got...

July Update + Short Nite 2~

SHORT NITE 2- 

So here's the interesting news I've been sitting on for a while!

The first video in the series, Mystery Skulls Animated:  Ghost, will be featured inside the game Fortnite!

The video will be airing along side a collection of other web created animations in a second ann...

June Update-

Heya everyone, got a lot of news this time around so let's get to it~

It's safe to say everyone caught last month's overly cryptic post!  It didn't take particularly long for people to find the message involved there.  Am I going to explain it much further than that?

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Of course not!

However, we wanted to post that to signify that actual production on video 5 is now properly underway!

The animation in this post is an extremely early sneak...

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