Monthly Update Time!
The Lewis plush is almost complete! Another pass or two of edits but here's how he's looking so far!
We also thought it'd be fun to share the shirt design that will go up alongside his preorder, designed by the amazing
In case you did not see it already, pages 4 through 6 of the mini comic have been put up as well.
Outside of that there is...
2021-04-16 20:42:13 +0000 UTC View Post
As promised! Part 2 of the Mystery Skulls Animated mini comic!
Brought to you through collaboration with artist @thepurpah, and author, Caitlin Penne
We're also excited to introduce Duet (they/them), enigmatic shop owner of The Tomb Tome... and Vivi's humble employer!
2021-04-15 19:37:21 +0000 UTC View Post
For the update this month we wanted to spotlight the first 3 pages of a short comic we'll be sharing over the next few months!
Something for you guys to nibble on while we finish up boards!
Written by Caitlin Pennell and Illustrated by @thepurpah
2021-03-15 04:41:07 +0000 UTC View Post
Heya all, time for a Monthly Update.
Video News-
Good progress is being made in regards to getting all the story beats laid out for pre-production. Currently our storyboarder is doing what he can to hook things up to make sense along side the music, and on that front I'd say we are getting pretty far. Afterward it'll have to go through actual BPM timing and all that jazz to make sure all the action stays to the beat as per-usual.
Not terribly much to a...
2021-02-13 19:32:35 +0000 UTC View Post
So uh, this took *ME* by surprise in the fact that they are on the store, for sale, right now. But as of right now, our shop is now selling PINS!
Lewis, Vivi, Arthur, Mystery, and the Mystery Skulls Animated Logo are all currently available to buy!
Also, per request, we added 4X & 5X size options for all the shirts as well! They will be pre-orders, but the option for them should be there now.
2021-01-08 23:25:56 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello everyone, I hope you've all had a good holiday season.
We are still underway with storyboards with Video 5 as well as getting some character development squared away. Might even have something of a sneak peak in that department sooner rather than later, so keep an eye out for that. We're hoping to get all this finished up 1st Quarter this year so that production can begin in full.
Trying to sort things out in terms of new merchandise, though due to the holidays t...
2021-01-02 02:01:47 +0000 UTC View Post
https://mysteryskullsanimated.com
New Winter PRE-ORDER sale starts today!
With designs from-
Ronkeyroo
Nahusnab
Purpah
Heya everyone~
We are now roughly a month away from the release of The Future and we are still pretty blown away from the reception. Last we checked, we were about 5 millions views on the video, which I feel like was some kind of record to make it this far so fast. Again, I want to real quick just thank everyone for all the support you’ve all thrown our way, be it, sharing the video, doing fan art, preordering the new merch, and of course all the new patrons that came by a...
2020-11-26 03:33:27 +0000 UTC View Post
We were going to post these later but there's already so much fan art and screencaps already so here are the reference sheets for !?MURDER MYSTERY?!
(Yes really)
This design was developed with the help of @nelnalium who was a perfect fit to help us solidify his looks~
If you are a fan artist, hopefully these references should help you figure this big guy out!
2020-11-03 02:28:50 +0000 UTC View Post
(Link may contain some spoilers for The Future video)
Hey all, if you've watched The Future and are itching for some follow up merch, we have preorders going on for some new designs.
This time around we have guest designs from some awesome artists!
Starcre8tor & KeylligraphyInk
Hey everyone, it's time for the FINAL update until we get the video out the door.
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First off though, I'd just like to add an update in terms of the shirt sale we had a little bit ago.
Thank you to everyone that got themselves a shirt! Hopefully by now everyone who has ordered one has got their by now. As mentioned during the sale, I said a portion of the profits would be going towards Doctors Without Borders&...
2020-10-04 03:07:53 +0000 UTC View Post
Heya all, it's time for the August update!
This month's headliner shows off some of the fresh new special effects we got coming in. This gun smoke is probably as close to a spoiler we can possible get, but we're eager to show something off in the effects department.
Beyond that, we have some fairly substantial things to tell everyone. We can definitely say now that all animation has been turned in at this point. While this doesn't account for future corrections/a...
2020-08-21 02:06:13 +0000 UTC View Post
Heya all,
Apologies for not having an update during June. As everyone is painfully aware, June wasn't a very good month, to say the absolute least.
There are plenty of updates to go over since last time, so let's get to them.
The main thing we wanted to focus on showing off this time around was background art. We've finally been getting in new background art in which we can start showcasing, mostly surrounding that of the Kingsmen Mechanics shop first intr...
2020-07-18 03:56:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey everyone. Hope you are all doing alright.
As you may have seen by now, we released a promotional video for Mystery Skull's new Album, Now or Never.
Again, if you want to get yourself a copy, go to the following links-
2020-05-18 22:28:39 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey everyone.
Ben here, and due to all the stuff going on due to COVID-19, the first thing I need to state up front is that I am personally doing fine at the moment. Thank you for all the well wishes and questions on if I'm doing alright.
Due to the way Youtube is handling its review system, me and other people on Youtube are experiencing effectively a halving of their monetization income.
While me only making half my income right now definitely stings, I am in an stab...
2020-04-27 02:57:48 +0000 UTC View Post
Heya all~
Apologies for the late update this month. We had wanted to post some updates that included some background art, however, our new background artists are still adapting to our art style.
We did not want them to rush out art just for the sake of the Patreon post this month, so we are unfortunately short on showing images this time around. However, Artsy Feathers wanted to fill ...
2020-02-28 03:31:28 +0000 UTC View Post
Heya all, it's time for the first update of 2020~
As a reminder, October 2020 is still our target date as mentioned previously. We've hit a milestone of production in that we have about only around 10 shots remaining that require setting up!
Up next, most of our efforts will be going towards finalizing the animation and the clean up of shots as well as getting in background art. Hopefully we can give all of you some samples of that for the next update. For...
2020-01-17 00:33:23 +0000 UTC View Post
Happy Holidays everyone, it's time for the December update~
Winter is here and the ancestor seemed perfect for this month's update. We also wanted to introduce one of our freelance animators @AtroxChobatsu who provided the roughs for this shot. He's been a tremendous help and his work is amazing!
As we've mentioned before. This will be the last month for these planned out types of screenshots. Ho...
2019-12-16 02:10:33 +0000 UTC View Post
Hiya everyone, it's time for the November update~
For the second to last of the screenshot pics, we've got the toothy puppy to show off.
The team is still truckin' along on the video on our end. Given that Thanksgiving is coming up soon, I want to give an especially large thank you to all of you that have supported us throughout this year. Honestly, this year has been particularly rough on me. Every video view, bought shirt, and Patreon donation has h...
2019-11-20 03:32:32 +0000 UTC View Post
While not related to the Mystery Skulls Animated series, here's some ghostly character explorations I've had in mind for a while that seems like an appropriate thing to post up for October.
None of these designs are really 100% finished but I feel like they're getting pretty close.
2019-10-12 23:20:51 +0000 UTC View Post
Time for the October Update~
With this month, we're showing off a spooky Shiromori shot for the monthly screenshot!
The team decided we are going to try to put out a screenshot each month until the year is up, after which we will be going dark on the screenshot specific updates. As mentioned in previous updates, we are running out of shots to show off that don't just flat out show off some manner of spoiler or just straight up something we want to save until the video is out...
2019-10-12 23:17:06 +0000 UTC View Post
I wasn't long ago since I learned off Procreate's ability to playback the drawing process and output a video of it.
Testing how this whole system works out to see how viable it is to upload stuff like this in the future.
2019-09-16 20:18:10 +0000 UTC View Post
Heya everyone, here comes the September Update~
Some of you might have caught the image of this month a bit early on other social medias but now it's Patreon's turn. I was hoping to have this post a bit earlier last week but as I mentioned in last month's post, I've been having some health stuff distracting me a bit still.
Regardless, things are probably going to get into full swing pretty soon, as the people on our team who had other business to tend to have finished up the...
2019-09-16 19:36:22 +0000 UTC View Post
Heya All, it's time for the August Update~
Due to a number of factors, this month we don't have a screenshot we are able to show off to everyone this time.
I've personally had some health things to tend to. I'm doing fine at the moment and while I feel like it will mostly clear up soon, it was a certainly distracting to deal with.
On top of that, a good chunk of the team had other outside work to finish up on, so they have had to focus on that first...
2019-08-16 01:46:21 +0000 UTC View Post
Didn't want anyone to think we were leaving Vivi out. Rest assured we woke her up just in time to join the fun!
Thanks to everyone who has made it out to the Mystery Skulls tour! It was fun to get to meet some of ya'll at the stop in Austin!
There is still more to the tour left to go so I hope you can make it to the ones coming up!
2019-07-13 20:44:47 +0000 UTC View Post
Heya all~
Thank you to everyone that's joined us on our first month on Patreon! Here is our monthly in-progress picture! Mystery is looking pretty excited eh?
For some addition news, we still have some Mystery plushes left over at-
https://mystery-skulls-animated.myshopify.com/
On Thursday at 8 PM Eastern/7 PM Central we will be selling some official Mystery plushes! Only 300 currently exist so the supplies will be limited, so be sure to check the above website out to get more info and sign up for when the site goes live! Due to the limited supply, we ask that everyone try to only purchase 1 s...
2019-05-20 23:36:41 +0000 UTC View Post
(Testing how images go in here...)
That was a larger initial push than I expected! Thank you to everyone that's chip in so far so early!
Passing through $44 actually covers the amount it takes me to subscribe to the Adobe Creative Cloud each month, so in the first day one of my primary goals was met!
Thank you very much once again, whether you went with the $1 amount or pitche...
2019-05-10 02:43:09 +0000 UTC View Post
