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Category: Behind the Scenes

  • More Making of the Musical Kitchen!

    Creating upwards of 8 kitchen based puppets that could sing and speak in their own unique ways was a tough chore. Have you ever tried to attach eyes to a feather duster? Devin and Mike stepped up to the task to bring these creatures to life for our Mother’s Day short. Take a closer looksy…

  • The Making of a Musical Kitchen!

    We took our puppeteering aspirations to another level with “Musical Kitchen” our latest Mother’s Day extravaganza, creating a series of kitchen based creatures that could sing, dance and clean! But getting to that point took several incarnations of video. First up, Andy scratched out his concept with some free style beatboxing. From there we put…

  • A Visit From Professor Jackdaws

    Professor Knestor Jackdaws (aka Voice of JibJab Jim Meskimen) stopped by our studio a few months ago for a tour and the video just went up.  YouTube favorite Nalts even did a write up on the video, which tours our facilities and interviews Evan.  Check out the tour below and the article through this link!

  • Postable Process!

    Trish recently shared with us the process she goes through to make a postable. Check it out! Every postable starts with the background. It can be simple… though some of the artists here go all out. For Character Layout I use references to create the poses, and build little gray versions of each piece. I…

  • Using iPad in the Field

    Several of us rushed out to nab iPads last weekend and while we’ve mostly been reading eBooks and watching “Muppets in Space”, this historic photo below may capture JibJab’s first practical use of an iPad. Evan loaded his iPad with one of the many Mother’s Day videos we’re working on and we hopped outside to…

  • Behind the Matzah

    As a Passover treat, we dug up our photo albums and production files from 5 years ago to expose all the really cool, really hard work that went into the awesomest Pesach rap to grace the internet. Click here to check out our production art, and click here to compare to the final product!

  • Busting Bunny Moves

    The majority of our stop motion animations start with hand drawn animations that are impressive by themselves. Devin told us that the most integral part of getting the animation right on this one was to practice all the dance moves in person. Now there’s a video we wish we had. Send “Easter Dinner” by following…

  • Follow the Rainbow to Facebook Photos

    We just posted up some concept art on Facebook from our two new videos this year, the Breakdancing Leprechaun and a Few St. Paddy’s Pints check them out by clicking this link or the picture below! Bonus goodie: The animatic to our Stop Motion short!

  • Behind the Irish Step

    While we are gearing up to release lots of fun for St. Patrick’s Day next week, we wanted to go BACK IN TIME to revisit a ‘Starring You’ favorite… the Irish Step.  Meet Jason Gorman, Meredith Lyons, Carol Coyne and sisters Elsa & Anna Johnson.  Back in 2008, we found these dancers as part of…

  • Valentine’s Day with the Ukulady!

    Last year we had the pleasure of meeting Thessaly Lerner (alias: the UkuLady). With her syrupy sweet voice, tender ukulele strumming and completely insane lyrics, she made herself a hit on YouTube and beyond… thusly a collaboration was in order! She wrote us some particularly quirky songs for birthdays, graduation and anniversaries, and came down…

  • Let’s Get Physical, on Facebook

    We were psyched to learn that the song “Let’s Get Physical” was just named Billboard’s SEXIEST SONG OF ALL TIME.  Since we had such a great time working out to the song last month while filming our ‘Starring You’ version, we figured we should share a Facebook album full of our best behind the scenes…

  • JibJab’s Romeo & Juliet

    The crown jewel from our stash of new Valentines has to be Romeo & Juliet.  In order to tell the greatest love story ever told, we had to condense it down to a minute, like we did in 2009 with Jowls and Shoot Your Eye Out. Check out the journey the story made, what we…

  • Reflecting Back on “Let’s Get Physical”

    Shooting “Let’s Get Physical” at a gym was a ton of work for us, namely because of the mirrors. You know how gyms are, almost all weightlifting areas are completely surrounded by mirrored walls, making it an intense challenge to find good angles of our duo as they lifted without catching their reflections in one…

  • Extra Figure Skating Photos

    We took far too many awesome photos while shooting our Figure Skating ‘Starring You’ not to share them all.  For that everything we missed, check out our latest album of behind the scenes pictures posted up on Facebook!

  • Avalanching

    To get the look of our skiing ‘Starring You’  video, we used half licensed footage of a real person skiing and half in studio footage of us playing around on skis in front of a green screen.  The last step was creating an avalanche of snow for the ‘Starring You’ skier to escape.  So we…