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New eCard – No Faking

November 26, 2012 – 7:00 pm

There may be nothing better than cake on your birthday and in our newest eCard, No Faking, one birthday girl knows that. We got to talk a little more with the artist, Alexandra Stepanov, about the eCard. 1.) How long did this card take to animate? Cumulatively, this took me about a week, maybe a week […]

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Elf Madness!

November 20, 2012 – 5:02 pm

With the smell of pumpkin pie in the air and the sound of sleigh bells in the distance, we all know the holidays are fast approaching. A great way to spread holiday cheer is with our funny eCards. This season we’ve hyped our traditional eCard by adding the ability to turn up to 20 of your […]

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Obama Won the Election!

November 7, 2012 – 12:26 pm

The results are in and President Barack Obama will remain in office for another four years! At the time national news outlets were projecting his win, we captured this screen shot of our Great American Dance Off which shows Obama in the lead with over 4.9 Million dance moves. That means Obama won with 50.6% […]

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New eCard – Duck in Your Pants

November 5, 2012 – 4:06 pm

What better way to celebrate your birthday than doing whatever you want, even if that means stuffing a duck down your pants. In our newest birthday eCard, Duck in Your Pants, one birthday person gets wild with a duck in their pants causing ruckus around town.We talked more about this off-beat eCard with our writer, Scott, […]

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Happy Halloween from the JibJab Team!

November 1, 2012 – 11:15 am

We had a ton of fun dressing up in our Halloween costumes at the office yesterday! In the afternoon, we passed around candy & carmel apples, played spooky music and even held a costume contest. One of our artists, Eddie, won for his creative Wallace and Gromit getup. Did you dress up or did you […]

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New eCard – Pinata Abuse

October 22, 2012 – 11:54 am

In our new birthday eCard, Pinata Abuse, the birthday boy takes his own stance against a pinata protester! We talked more with artist, Beto Gomez, about the making of this card. 1) Have you ever had a pinata at your birthday party? I haven no idea why, but in Brazil we fill balloons with candy […]

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Get Funky with Skeleton Dance

October 18, 2012 – 10:29 am

In Skeleton Dance, one of our new Halloween eCards, you can turn you & your friends into kooky, bone rattling, dancing skeletons! Our director of eCards, Jeff, thought this eCard would be a great puppet Starring You video and his idea was inspired by a few different sources. First this skeleton marionette street performer really got his attention […]

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New eCard – So Sad

October 15, 2012 – 11:27 am

In our newest birthday eCard, So Sad, one bunny boohoos about forgetting a birthday. Try not to be too sad if you missed someone’s birthday because you can make it up by sending this cute crying bunny eCard. We got to talk to in house artist, Jeff, more about his card. 1) How did you […]

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O’Romneybama

October 12, 2012 – 10:19 am

While we decided not to do one of our traditional election videos this year for reasons we talked about here, that doesn’t mean the performers we have worked with on past election videos are sitting this one out. Here is a link to a video put together by the magical man of a million voices, Jim […]

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Behind the Scenes – The Time Warp – 3D Backgrounds

October 10, 2012 – 10:25 am

Over the years we’ve been able to improve our Starring You technology in a number of ways, including head rotation and secondary hair animation. Now we are able to add 3D environments to the list! While Jump Jive and Wail was the first time we incorporated 3D environments into a Starring You video, Time Warp […]

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Behind the Scenes: The Time Warp – Meet the Actors!

October 2, 2012 – 4:20 pm

After attending one of the midnight showings of The Rocky Horror Picture Show™ here in Los Angeles we knew that we had to make The Time Warp into an eCard this Halloween. We asked the actors of the show to come into our studio to film and they were thrilled. They even had their own hand made […]

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New eCards – Birthday Rap for Him and Her

October 1, 2012 – 10:15 am

The guys at SurfMonkey are at it again! This time they created two fun Starring You eCards tailored for either a girl or a boy so they can bust a rhyme on their birthday! In these cards, the birthday boy gets down with beers and BBQs and the birthday girl has her cake and eats it too. We […]

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The Great American Dance Off

September 28, 2012 – 10:11 am

Election day is quickly approaching & we are really jazzed up about it! So much so that we decided to make a Starring You app that let’s you get jiggy with the presidential candidates. Pick Mitt Romney or Barack Obama to be your dance partner in the Great American Dance Off…or you can even nominate yourself! […]

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New eCard – Cakezilla

September 17, 2012 – 10:19 am

What is brown, larger than sky scrapers and enjoys eating cake? Cakezilla! In our newest birthday eCard we see this building busting, cake destroying beast wreak havoc on a tasty birthday treat. We got to talk more with Anna Bron about the woman behind the monster. -Where did you go to school? I went to Sheridan College, in Ontario, Canada. […]

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Evan and Gregg speaking at Silicon Beach @ USC!

September 13, 2012 – 9:47 am

Evan and Gregg (brothers & co-founders of JibJab) will be giving a keynote speech this afternoon at the Silicon Beach Conference @ USC! They will share their insights on technology, entrepreneurism, and introduce our new brand for kids and parents, StoryBots. Their speech is titled “13 Years in The Dumbest Business in the World, and Still Going.” Students […]

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