Digging around our library to find turkey sketches yesterday, we also stumbled across these early animatics for “Be Thankful”. Watch these and get a great idea of the evolution our animations go through.
And of course, compare these to the final product here…
When designing a character that gets as much screen time as the turkey from Be Thankful, we go through many concepts and renditions. Check out our new Facebook album full of fowls that could have been!
A lot of blood, sweat, tears and holiday cheer went into delivering this, a mind boggling amount of holiday content! We’ll be highlighting these pieces and the late nights that went into creating them as we plow through the next few months, but for now, check out our filtering system for the holidays, which [...]
While everyone is finding their inner elves via ElfYourself, we wanted to make sure that the new Thanksgiving art and animations our team designed for 2009 don’t go unnoticed! Last year we were so busy, we didn’t get to launch any postables, so we made up for it this year with some instant classics. [...]
The ElfYourself experience is rolling and we wanted to highlight some of the new gifts, available only in our ElfYourself store! Along with the usual greeting cards, mousepads and mugs, you now have the option to get your face on playing cards, ornaments and BLANKETS!
Of course, any new products we considered went through tons [...]
In today’s blog we wanted to feature one of the coolest uses of Starring You we’ve seen… celebrities retweeting and sharing fan-made JibJabs. Just because we think it’s awesome. So pardon us as we go from behind the scenes production blog to gossip rag, because cere are some celebrity endorsed Starring Yous that [...]
One question we get quite often is “how do you make a Starring You video?”. It’s a simple process, but we found it kind of hard to sum up without visual accompaniment. While you can find instructions while making a video and additional information in our FAQ, we’ve decided to go another step [...]
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To honor the amazing men and women who work hard to protect our freedom, we want to extend free 1 year JibJab [...]
We’ve seen some great shout outs from friends and press since we launched ElfYourself 2009, and we’re so excited, we just had to share them!
TechCrunch had a leg up on the story and posted last night… it wasn’t long before Mashable got in the mix… we were lucky enough for CNN Money to run [...]
Office Max and JibJab are excited to usher 2009’s ElfYourself experience in tonight! ElfYourself has some amazing stuff built in this year, and we’ll be going through all the fun things you can do on this blog over the next few weeks. Wait, why are you still reading this? Go on and [...]
A teaser is ticking away over on a certain website. They’re coming…
We are in insane crunch mode right now as tech and art are wrapped for the holiday season. Nights are late, mornings are early and it can get pretty intense. So we started throwing these balls at each other. It’s cathartic! In fact, your blogger may have had a ball thrown at him after taking [...]
As amazing the Los Angeles area is for finding and working with talent, it isn’t known for being the hub of all things internet related. That distinction goes to the cities surrounding the San Francisco bay, and we are constantly traveling that way to attend conferences and discuss innovations in the online world so [...]
We were astounded to see the Monster Mash show up on news channels all over the country last week, but the best part is that we totally have our awesome community of JibJab fans to thank. JibJabbers took to tweeting and facebooking personalized Monster Mashes at and on the pages of local news teams [...]
We got into the Halloween spirit at the office today, with costumes, candy and a bit of fun creative time drawing on gourds. You can see our collection below, and a few more of the pumpkins at Trish’s blog.
On a side note, we wanted to thank everyone who made the Monster Mash such a smash [...]
