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Category: Behind the Scenes

  • From 2007: Looking Back at Unnecessary Force

    It’s early August and the entire staff is hard at work on, of all things, Halloween content.  What’s crazier is that those who aren’t working on Halloween stuff are working on Christmas stuff.  Rather than take a peek at seasonal stuff out of season, we thought it would be fun to do a throwback and…

  • Flash Back to the Great Sketch Experiment!

    Back in 2006 we gathered John Landis and some of the best minds in comedy for an experiment the likes the world has never seen! We had so much great behind the scenes footage, we wanted to make it all available again! Click below to watch the intro video, see the final entries, browse behind…

  • Extra Creepy Crawlers

    Our latest project started with a “Thank You” song written by Steffon and Arlette Moody. How Justin and Mike came to the idea for a subterranean chorus of creepy crawlers, even they don’t know. We’ve posted up an album on Facebook featuring the art that brought our new eCard together, with sets made of clay…

  • Founding Fathers: Facial Expression Edition

    Check out the raw footage from our Founding Fathers’ Rap and see the facial expressions that go along with being as dope as we are.  Special thanks to Matt, Devin, Evan and Andy for having the moves to go along with the rhymes. Happy 4th of July!  For more behind the scenes pics, check our…

  • Touching Up Our Tracks

    The original Founding Fathers track was recorded a decade ago, with a track created by Adrienne Spiridellis, JibJab Founding Brother Evan Spiridellis’ wife.  For Founding Fathers 2010, we got the help of audio master John Frrizzell, who spruced up the original track, running a recording through his iPhone, through a megaphone and back into a…

  • Founding Fathers’ Rap Remake!

    Everyone in the studio is super excited about our Founding Fathers Rap redux/reboot/remix/revamp/remake/what-ever-you-might-call-it.  The original was one of the first animations we did using collage style animation and this year marks it’s tenth anniversary on JibJab.com.  Since then, we’ll admit we’ve gotten a little better at animation.  Check out the decade old version with full…

  • Chopping Up Kung Fu Dad

    Have you seen Kung Fu Dad yet? If you haven’t, you owe it a watch.  The goal was to make a companion piece to Mother’s Day’s One Bad Mutha and this time around we found even better fighting footage to apply to the Father’s Day version of the card.  It’s hard making fight scenes from…

  • The Rap on Dad

    Father’s Day is looming this weekend and we’ve reacted accordingly by updating our library of eCards with new stills and videos galore.  Among the coolest new cards we’ve debuted this week is Dad Rap, a poppin tribute to pop that puts the ‘hood’ back in ‘fatherhood’.  Fun fact: that bling? It’s wooden. Hey, it’s not…

  • Soccer is Ballin’!

    We knew we wanted to do something big to coincide with World Cup fever, especially for our awesome throng of international fans.  Little did we know just how popular a Starring You soccer scrimmage would be! In just two days, over half a million people found our fun football short, thanks in part to an…

  • Anniversary Animals

    We’re wrapping our series on commitment with Anniversary Animals, our most recent piece and what we hope will be a popular Starring You for couples celebrating years together. This little ditty was written, composed and sang by Steffon Moody, who is Evan’s brother-in-law.  Here’s a link to his website!  Romney then illustrated this card for…

  • Realer Vows Than You Might Think!

    Real Vows and Marriage is Scary are yet two more awesome addition to our most committed category, Weddings & Engagement.  Written in house by our writers last year, both pieces were produced by the getting-more-insanely-popular-by-the-day Dane Boe.  For these shorts we got a real couple, Sarah and Matt Pittenger, who were just weeks away from…

  • Mate for Life

    We’re continuing to look at some of the new content we’ve recently cooked up for our Wedding and Anniversary categories, this time with a wedding Sendable by the name of Mate for Life! We released Mate For Life amist Mother’s Day and Star Wars madness and now we’re finally giving it some of the recognition…

  • JibJab Gets Committed

    We’ve been on a streak for the last few months, working to bring more unique animations and videos to our site’s Wedding and Anniversary categories.  This week, we’ll look at some of the pieces we’ve put up with some behind the scenes info as accompaniment! First up is Octopus Anniversary.  The idea was originated in…

  • 8-bit Birthday Bites!

    We recently put together a birthday card that drew upon our love for old school video games.  Figuring out exactly how to present it went through several phases.  In our first incarnation, Jeff pitched an awesome animatic where the gag was a little more twisted than the final product. The next step was taking our…

  • Singing Eggs: Live!

    This clip is from the making of Easter Egg Chorus, from our 2009 Easter content push.  We could have just released the unanimated version, huh?