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Category: Behind the Scenes

  • The Music Behind Beer! Beer! BEER!

    So where did we get that catchy Irish drinking song for out St. Patrick’s Day Starring You spectacular… Beer! Beer! BEER!? Scrounging around iTunes for the perfect St. Paddy’s tune, we stumbled upon a recording of Beer, Beer, Beer recorded by The Malarkey Brothers, a band of four siblings that play some mean Celtic music.…

  • Throwback 2: Charleston Starring You

    Since we’ve relaunched several of our dances to be widescreen and include thematic hats/hair, we’re going back and uncovering some behind the scenes materials from our first batch of Starring You dance videos back in 2007.  Today’s subject is The Charleston, available in Facebook album form right over here.  You’ll marvel that our black and…

  • Throwback to 2007: Disco Starring You

    While we prepare to launch our new St. Patrick’s piece, we’ve got a little time to go through pictures and videos taken behind the scenes from before this blog was active.  Disco was one of our first Starring You videos, shot some four years ago.  Since then it remains one of our most popular videos,…

  • The Samba Story

    Our latest dance has been in the works for a long, long time. We shot the Samba in December 09 and it has been on our to-do list throughout the last year (and change!).  To make it an authentic Brazilian dance experience, we brought in the pros, Kimberly Miguel Mullen and Emeka Simmons. Kimberly, who…

  • Widescreen, Wigged Valentines

    Along with our new Samba Dance and I Got You Babe music video, keen eyes may notice that our fare from years previous have received makeovers!  First up, widescreen. 14 videos were retrofitted in dimension from 4×3 to 16×9 to give you a cinematic JibJab experience. We’ve also added wigs and hats to the Starring…

  • Bonus Babe Vid

    Just a video as we near Valentine’s Day next week, showing our techniques behind rolling downhill, sans hill.

  • The Art of “I Got You Babe”

    We’ve just posted the best photos and art from the making of “I Got You Babe” over on Facebook! As our Valentine’s Day tentpole for 2011, “I Got You Babe” was meticulously arranged from start to finish. Check out how we made it by clicking the photo below, then cast it over in the Valentine’s…

  • We Got Animatics Babe!

    See how we took our “I Got You Babe” video from soup to nuts! Below is our first animatic. Using the animation as a guide, Evan and his wife Adrienne took to the screen and brought the characters to life with extra gusto.  We had to take footage from the ceiling using a wide angle…

  • Tandem Trouble

    One of the new Valentine’s Day music videos we’re filming this week features a tandem bicycle, and working right near the Venice boardwalk, the easiest way to get our hands on a bike for two was renting one of the tourist bikes from down by the beach.  With the rental shop on the beach, there’s…

  • The Making of “Sleigh Ride”!

    When we got the rights to use the classic Ronetts music track “Sleigh Ride” for the holiday season, we wanted to do something really amazing to fit in line with it.  Wanting to offer an adventurous sleigh ride through several locations called for miniatures and lead us to a magical winter world of ice cream…

  • Photos from “Comin’ to Town”

    We highlighted some amazing behind the scenes time lapse videos from animator Max Winston last week.  Now get a closer look at the incredible puppets he created for Santa Claus is Comin’ to Town in our Facebook photo album!

  • Making Feliz Navidad!

    Jeff rocked this project, first planning out drawing and drawing the animatic below, then doing all the dancing.  Zowee! Warning, this will either ruin Feliz Navidad for you, or make it ten times better. Then the team got hard to work and we pulled together to create some amazing art and a sharp render of…

  • Welcome Behind the Scenes!

    Thanks for checking out the behind the scenes section of  our 2010 Year in Review!  There’s always soooo much work that goes in to producing a two minute short so it’s always fun for us to shine a light on some of the efforts and processes that would otherwise go unnoticed.  Here you’ll find videos,…

  • The Writing Process

    In July at JibJab, we are 100% focused on Christmas. In August, it’s time for Year in Review. Clearly a lot will happen between August and December 31, so we start with three simple goals. First, identify a tune that will be well suited for a “list song” (a song whose lyrics will be comprised…

  • Lyrics!

    We’ve had so many requests to get the full lyrics all written out, so here they are for your reading pleasure! SO LONG TO YA, 2010 Sung to the tune of “Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze” We arrived in ’09 on a rainbow of hope, But two thousand ten blew it all up…