JibJabbin’

Michelle Obama caught a bunch of slack this year for using Air Force Two to take 40 of her friends on a lavish vacation she took to Spain. So how do we illustrate it? Have the first lady dressed like a princess perched atop golden airplane! We went to the toy store and bought a [...]

THis scene had two components. First, there were the puppets doing their business then there was actually giving them something to slide down. Here’s some raw puppet footage… For the plane, Jeff took the fuselage that he had built for the previous scene, added a wing and set it up on some rollers. You’ll notice [...]

This scene started with some amazing character studies by Justin which were then transformed into three dimensions by Mike with nothing more then foam, plush and a hot glue gun… Notice Rahm’s sunken eyes peering out over Mike’s shoulder… There are also some things we try that don’t always work out the way we’d planned. [...]

In our minds this is the be-all-end-all of all puppets! We joke around the studio that Mike ‘has scale issues’ because he loves to make BIG puppets so what better, bigger character to gibe him than the Governator himself! The only direction that was given at the start of this scene was to make sure [...]

This scene might be a bit more of an obscure reference but we managed to sneak it in anyway. It happened at Fortune Magazine’s “Most Powerful Women Summit” at about 27 seconds into this video. To the President’s credit, he was pretty quick with a good humored response. For us, it was just fun to [...]

So here’s another gag that we filmed that ultimately didn’t make the cut. After Obama got pegged in the head with a basketball in the previous scene we thought it could be funny to cut back and have him holding a bloody rag to his lip for the final dance. It was a mildly clever [...]

As is typically the case with a big ‘Behind the Scenes’ effort, we imagine if you made it to the last post that you are most likely a fan of JibJab (Or maybe this year you’re just REALLY into puppets?) In either event we want to say, “Thank you, Thank you, Thank you!” for taking [...]