Mystery Skulls Animated Monthly Updated Hey everyone, apologies for missing out on last month, but it's time to get a new update out the door from our team about the production so far for video 5. Unfortunately we don't believe we'll be able to have the video ready in time for a October release. People's schedules have not lined up in such a way where we have the momentum to finish things up for this month. In particular, background art has been difficult to get in due to artist availability. We do have layouts ready for most of the backgrounds at the moment, it's just a matter of getting fully cleaned up versions of them. At the very least we still want to give you another animated gif and to sincerely apologize for not being able to bring the video to you this month for the 10th anniversary. We know everyone has been waiting a long time and we'll do our best to keep pushing and get this animation out the door as soon as we can. Full Patreon Post: CLICK HERE
You know what I dream about the most? Like if someone just dropped a billion dollars in my lap one day and said go spend this, my first thought after making sure my close friends and family were good and taken care of would be to legit help people in the industries I care about like the animation industry for example. Can you imagine having the power to make multiple people's dreams come true for say their animated cartoon pilots and give them stability and be able to say "I love your idea, more of this should exist, make 3+ seasons of this with a whole crew of skilled artists and here's some money for merch production and some more on the side for potential bonuses for your workers no strings attached and you retain control of your production and IP rights and I just want this to happen cause I can do that." Obviously it's always great to continue to give to other organizations and to help people abroad and at home who are struggling as well where and when you can, not taking that factor out of it at all and especially now, but this is a dream "what if" hypothetical I've thought about on and off for a long time when I see people sitting on so much money and not wanting to invest in anything "risky."
Reminder that my family is still trying to raise funds for our elder cat's medical costs. At the current time we are only 10% of the goal. More info here.
If you donate any amount, you can fill out this form to get a small thank you doodle from me! I may even draw it live when during art streams! Here's the first batch of doodles I did on stream. Thank you for any help!
I will probably do an art stream sometime this month to finish off leftover doodle requests (sorry for the wait, its hard to do art when you're stressed) and do any new ones that come in.
As for updates, fundraiser is only 11% funded as of this reblog. My cat now needs surgery and draining for a reoccurring liquid filled mass that hes had for weeks cause we can't afford it. Past donations went to paying for his hyperthyroidism meds. We also still hope do get enough for radioactive iodine therapy.
I keep getting multiple messages in a row about "When's the next Mystery Skulls video coming out" Can you please not? I've already answered this before and we have an open and unlocked patreon with monthly updates that get posted here as well.
*taps the sign again* I will turn off my inbox for awhile if some of you don't stop doing this any time I mention MSA 5 in passing. I've tried to be very professional and kind about this, but i'm getting really annoyed now. Yes we know it's been a long time. Yes we're still working on it. No it's not done yet.
Some out of context, unused takes from our recording session with Anairis Quiñones, who is voicing Aika in the pilot!
Can't wait for y'all to hear more than just this one line. And also what this one line is for in context haha.
WHEW! Look at all these beautiful people. This was my dream cast from the get go and I'm so thankful that they were all willing to give me their time and lend me their talents 🌟
That's all for VA announcements but I'll still continue posting lil updates here and there, so keep an eye out! And sub to my youtube channel so you know when the pilot's uploaded!
So this has nothing to do with the MSA project, but once that video is done and I take a short break while enjoying the release with the community, i'll be going back into pre-production work on my other personal fan-animation project. I'm also realizing that I need to expand my knowledge and horizons on even more cultures and international entertainment media when it eventually comes to figuring out voice casting reference for some of the characters in this project. It's honestly severely lacking right now and that's not gonna cut it when it comes time to poke my friends about getting potential voice actors involved down the line. Another thing that's definitely thrown me for a loop is coming to the conclusion that I am very ignorant on what certain regions around the world's current modern languages are or what is the most commonly used regional dialect that would be appropriate to pull from in looking for movie or show material. I'd like to try and not screw that kind of thing up where possible you know?
I hope you guys don't mind me being honest for a second, but I am a little bit glad we didn't finish video 5 for the end of October even though it kills me to miss the 10 year anniversary. I don't think I or a lot of people would have been in a good mindset to hopefully enjoy it with how crazy this second half of the year is already. I do wish we had it out beforehand, but not much you can do when you don't have the freelance man power available consistently to go faster with certain parts of production while keeping the quality up to standards. Our small core group doesn't want to be stuck being the only ones doing say all the backgrounds again on like Hellbent. I am quite tired of vectoring rocks among other things lol.
I've been on this site since close to 2011 and I've never made a pinned post about myself or my account or any important links good lord. It's just been running on vibes I guess so I should probably do that this week huh.
just fyi, i'm not gonna stop doing personal posts here once in awhile, but i'm using my bluesky a bit more frequently to get some of my other quick and/or heavier thoughts and feelings out that are less paragraph heavy since it just feels easier to do along with cross posting any art.
"Choking on the smoke from the fire I created. The pain is punishment for the things that I have done."
My October animation project, I made it happen!
I haven't animated for myself in a while and really wanted to do one of these, even if it's ugly and dirty, the point was to make it happen. I get hung up on things looking bad, which stops me from trying in the first place. It's not an animation friendly design, so luckily, I've been drawing him enough I could translate it okay.
I love old cartoons with transformations like these, usually got me interested in a show when I caught one of those episodes.
Goodbye boops. It was like seeing an old friend from ages past but was actually only a few months ago.
God speed fellow boopers. You and your adorable spooky cat paws.
Almost forgot to make a video of my house this year. I really REALLY like decorating for Halloween 🎃
Alright ya'll, my halloween candy giving is done so I'm gonna need my followers and random people to boop the heck outta me until the time runs out so I can give as many boops back as possible to catch up >:3
Nevermind I have to come back for a moment to post this new banger of a song Luis just put out for Halloween
I gotta go finish my Halloween decorations, but I just wanna say thank you all for the IMMENSE amount of boops I'm constantly receiving. Sometimes I forget there's a lot of you here on my page and I love and adore every single one of you taking the time to have fun with me while enjoying my art and posts. I'll be back to boop more later for sure! :)