I do what I can to make sure the team is paid for their efforts and have mostly funded things with the use of my Youtube ad revenueĪnd with the money raised from product sales. On top of this, with our upcoming videos, we are bringing in additional outside contract animators to make our animations even more dynamic and expressive Have all been collectively paying for our own production. Since we are not attached to a studio to fund us, we WithĮach passing video, the amount of members attached to it increases slowly but surely. While I was the original creator, even since the very beginning I have had a small but dedicated team helping me create all of these videos. Patreon would certainly help to cover the monthly fees. In order to use them, it now requires a monthly subscription to have access to them. Animate, Photoshop, After Effects, Illustrator, and Premiere have all been utilized to What I use now is the Adobe Creative Cloud suite of programs.
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The series, our methods became much more elaborate and before too long we found that we needed the most recent versions of a handful of art programs. The "Ghost" video started off humbly enough as one giant, clunky, singular Adobe Flash file.
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While I make enough funds from Youtube ad revenue to personally keep me stable, fans have been asking for a method to chip in their support for our effortsĪnd for that, Patreon made the most sense. Try to wring out as much quality in the production as much as such a tiny group of artists can manage. While the first video was created under contract, all the work done afterward has been out of our own pockets.Īs we move onward towards our goal of finishing this chunk of the series, our work processes have become increasingly more involved and complex to
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We set upon making an entire series worth of videos, with "Freaking Out" and "Hellbent" being the continuation of the story. However, the response to the video was far more than any of us could imagine.Ī fanbase rallied behind the video almost overnight and it became clear people wanted more. The original plan was to simply create the one animation, "Ghost", and leave it at that. Since 2014, me and a team of other artists have been working non-stop to create a series of music videos for the band, Mystery Skulls. Currently, I am working on the Mystery Skulls Animated series of music videos as the original creator and one of the animators.
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I was the animator behind "8-bit Dungeons and Dragons", "Phoenix Wright - Boot to the Head",Īnd "Rhythm is Magic". I'm Ben Mangum, also known as "Mystery Ben" online, and I am an animator who has been uploading my work to Youtube for over 10 years.