Thank you!!!
Just a huge warm thank you to everyone who has grabbed a copy of our book! This book is so incredibly important me and is a culmination of the life’s work of Mr Skelly, including all of your favorite quotes and animations. The book is available in multiple languages and is already number 1 best seller for three days in a row!!! Thank you!!
I could not do this without yall supporting me the way you do, so thank you from the bottom of my heart.
Here’s to what’s to come.
#books #mrskelly #howluckyami #hope #art
Hi everyone!
A little hello to our new followers here! I wanted to share a little bts of how we make our goodies, as well as some info on things we’re working on! Hope y’all don’t mind seeing my no-eyebrow no-tooth face. Also! ALL OF THIS IS MADE BY HUMANS. :)
I am entering into a new fire of passion for this work!
#art #mrskelly #animation #bts #love
It’s never too late…
People so often believe our life is a permanent one. Or our situation. Or our current belief system or structure. They thing because things are the way they are now, this is how they must be forever. It’s weird because we all have this idea we are going to die some day far off into the distance. We envision ourselves gone, but only far away from this point of time. It’s rare to come to terms that today may be the last day on earth. And let me tell you, having access to an audience of 5 million people, I hear stories all the time of people who have gone from this world much sooner than imagined.
And so if this life isn’t permanent, how can all the good be? How can all the suffering? How can who you are today be who you are going to be in ten years? There is no permanent status to anything on this earth, none of us with all our problems, sorries, shame, and knowledge are going to last. So don’t be so worked up over the little things because they will change drastically.
I know people who have saved up for decades to purchase a home only to have it accidentally burn down within the first month. People who have been in prison for years who came out the other side changed and new. There is change and it’s a constant. Don’t be so afraid please, life is coming and going.
I really hope you love this animation and Mr Crow!!
#mrskelly #fyp #art #viral #animation
This is something I struggle with.
As a kid, I grew up with a lot of seriousness in my life. And many of the people around me were certain that art was not a profitable path in life. And shouldn’t be one taken. And then my whole worldview became about what I needed to do to survive. But I’ve always wanted to make, and everything in me screamed to keep at it in spite of this.
Now, AI is here, and it seems like all the people who told me “no” are so eager to please this little device. Happy to give it all of their life stories… they have all this time for their little screens, and then they look around and say “why is this generation so sad?” Well, I see community stripped from the routine of our lives, the “village” mentality has gone far away, and many people are sacrificing togetherness in favor of the self.
I have many bad things to say about AI, but there is a personal point of pain I have in people’s eagerness to praise it for what it can do, when they’re often so dismissive of what humans are trying to accomplish - even if they’re not all that good at it. We want the best, the quickest, the cheapest, we don’t care what it costs as long as it’s convenient. We never want to be uncomfortable, never want to be present with ourselves or others.
I like this sketched mr Skelly format because honestly I have so many of these ideas I need to get out on paper… I know they’re not as pretty but I hope they reach you.
#mrskelly #life #art #hope #tech
I’m torn in two.
On one hand I’m of the mind… this is it. This is the only life we have and we should live it to the fullest. Something I deeply believe in.
And on the other, I’m of the heart, there is more to this life than what happens when it ends. That there is always something new coming for us, and we never know what it is. Something I truly feel.
And the two of these make up my life, not a battle, but a dance. Even if we have a hundred lives, shouldn’t we live each one to the most of its possibility? Even if we only have one, shouldn’t we give absolutely everything we can?
I will find you in every lifetime. Meet you there somehow, in some way.
And I’m so very blessed to experience this with all of you today, right now.
Animated by hand by the 1924us studio.
#love #romance #couple #animation #mrskelly
Just a quick hello from me! And a thank you and welcome to all the new faces here!!! We just hit 2 million followers on facebook and 1 million on TikTok in the same week!!! We got remonetised on YouTube (shoutout to our friends at YouTube!!) and our book is a record breaker for a debut author!! I am so thankful, and honestly I am so astonished.
I had my first ever radio interview today with ABC Australia and it felt so special to have such real questions asked and all I could talk about was you all!! How amazing this community is, all of the stories and memories, the grief and the loves, all shared so vulnerable and honestly. I am so filled with joy knowing you’re all here and we all get to exist together.
Thanks for making Mr Skelly who he is. Thanks for giving life to all of my work.
Here’s to the future!!! Venture Onward!!!
#mrskelly #art #hope #skeleton #animation
It is so easy to fall into a despair loop. “Oh man, everything sucks why should I even try?” I refuse to ever enter that mindset again. It’s no an easy one to get out of, and is like quicksand, grabbing at your ankles and soon enough you find you’re down to your chest and unable to move. Never again.
There is so much good in this world, and all do the world wants me to focus on the bad. Everywhere I turn all of the news seems to be bad… I want nothing more than to be a beacon of radical hope which is why, even when I take the time to address important and difficult things, I want to do it from that position. Don’t stop calling problems problems, we have to do that to grow and fix them, but don’t let them dictate your life!!!
There is so so much good in this world. I heard my children laugh today. I felt a sense of relief after finishing a project. And I got to sleep in for an extra 15 minutes. There are so many little victories that are worth celebrating.
Celebrate everything you can. You are most effective against the evils of this world by being an overwhelming force of hope and gratitude.
This animation took forever!!!!!! Please watch for all the little details and sounds!! Love to you all!
Proudly made by human hands!!!
#mrskelly #fyp #hope #mountains #art
This is one example of hundreds I have received over the last three years of Making Mr Skelly. Companies and individuals from all around the world using our work for profit against our wishes. Never to be tracked down via copyright law suits. Impossible to hold accountable. Reports unheard. Watermarks removed.
ALL I HAVE IS MY VOICE.
It’s literally all I have got to defend against this travesty of a modern slop revolution.
Anyway I’ll delete this later lol. But just so ya know.
It really is so simple.
Life is meant to be lived. Not via codes and algorithms. In the last month, as many of you may know, many major platforms have begun an automated purge of creative accounts. YouTube and Meta are the biggest perpetrators of this, with thousands of creators of all sizes losing their accounts to non-person automation. We ourselves were demonetised on YouTube for “inauthentic” content. Despite every aspect of our work being done by hand. When we appealed we got AI automated responses, even our proof video showing how we painstakingly make all of our work, was reviewed by a bot who sent us a bot template email. Then the same thing began happening on Instagram! Many creators were hit with algorithmic bans, some even losing their accounts entirely. The reason? No one knows.
But in late March Both platforms lost a major landmark case, having it proven in a court of law that they were responsible for depression, addiction and anxiety disorder rising in children. Many speculate they are trying to readjust the sort of content they allow on the platform, and good content creators are being swept up in the tsunami of vast moderation.
Big tech is becoming bigger, these platforms grow in size and have abandoned their roots of community in favor of ad spend and colonising your attention spans. With AI being as prevalent as it is, we are speedrunning rapid societal decline where so much is questioned.
In a world where computers begin making decisions for us, it is us - the humans - who have to prove we are NOT computers.
We are people. And real artists make with their voices, their hands, their bodies, hearts and minds. Everything else is a farce.
The destruction of the world for the temporary betterment of the self has NEVER been excusable in all of history. Let’s not repeat it.
Anyway this has been a Mr Skelly announcement.
#aisucks #ai #life #politics #art
I am tired.
Tired of feeling like I’m at war with everyone and everything. I care so much these days about so many things that don’t care about me at all. It’s the truth. Computers, AI, all of that inherently evil stuff is evil not because it’s intentionally malicious but because it’s intentionally apathetic. We have put this behemoth of apathy in charge of so much, our news feeds, our algorithms, our creativity. We have set our humanity to autopilot because we are exhausted from the fight, and too comfortable to do anything about it. Pigs waiting for the slaughter.
And all the places I want to go to share my creativity are overrun by it. It’s in my small hometown. It’s on the menus at my local coffee shops. Used by the school on posters. It’s overwhelming. And I feel like I’m living life in one big uncanny valley.
“That’s ai, you can tell beca—“
“So? Who cares?”
Well, I care. That’s what makes me a person. I care. I care enough to be upset or to fight back or to make even when it’s difficult, expensive, challenging. I am tired but I have a deep burning fuel inside of me. When I made the post last week about TikTok’s creative team reaching out, I was inundated with messages from people of all sides but many from the AI positive crew who want nothing more than no one in their way.
“Be careful of things that aren’t human but that are pretending to be” I keep that warning very close to my heart.
If you are skipping the work to get to the result, what’s the point?
But I am hopeful, with a deep rage filled hope… delusional and never ceasing.
Art is for humanity.
Every single frame of this animation was drawn by hand by real people, who care.
#fyp #viral #tired #art #hope
I want to leave this world…
Better than I found it.
When I was young, I had a pretty severe battle with depression, it was years long and combined with an intense anxiety, it lead me down some pretty dark parts of my road. And then I started doing something that I thought was stupid and silly… whenever I would have a negative thought, I would add something positive afterwards as a motivational way to kick my brain into a different gear…
I don’t want to wake up tomorrow… without something to improve about myself. I hate myself… for not realizing how loveable I am. It seems really silly, even saying it is funny. But it helped me tremendously. And still to this day it does. There is light and dark in all of us, and that is how we ride the bike of life… balance it out.
I encourage you to try this trick on yourself and buy into a delusional self love and betterment plan. It’s the best thing you can do.
It’s delusional to hate myself, might as well match that delusion with even more delusional hope… except one breeds incredible results.
I am glad you’re here. Venture Onward.
#mrskelly #depression #love #tired #animation
Stay til the end (if you want)
This one took considerable time as it is essentially three different backgrounds, plus little flies and bees and butterflies and wind and fireflies and lanterns all animated.
I just love making little ambient videos that help put a break in the day, or stop the constant feed of gross.
This moment is everything. It’s all we have. It’s all encompassed in each passing tick of a second. It is the greatest and most horrifying experience to be alive. There is good and bad and all inbetween and outside of it. I live quite happily in my delusion and just want to make. I have an unshakable hope, despite the moments of deep despair… there is something greater we are here for.
I do not know what it is. I still do not know my purpose. But I want to make people happy and to feel like this world is a little more welcoming.
I really hope you all enjoy this art… and the transitions from day to night.
All animated by hand and painted by hand by the 1924us studio using procreate and procreate dreams.
#mrskelly #beautiful #fyp #animation #love
