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Category: Halloween

  • Halloween season is off to a funky start!

    You’ll be the ghost with the most when you shake your BOO-ty to our instant Halloween hit, “Funky Ghost”!

  • JibJab staff wears dresses for Halloween, in support of Sierra Leone education!

    This Halloween, the JibJab staff are dressed in…Australian school dresses! Why, you ask? We’re participating in Do It In A Dress, an initiative that aims to provide girls in Sierra Leone with an education. Funds donated to the Do It In A Dress campaign go towards scholarships, improved classrooms and sanitation, and business training. Some…

  • Happy Halloween from the JibJab Team!

    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…

  • Behind the Scenes – The Time Warp – 3D Backgrounds

    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…

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

    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…

  • Need A Halloween Costume Idea?

    With Halloween quickly approaching many of us have found ourselves scrambling to find the perfect costume. Whether you go old school as a ghost or something topical like Charlie Sheen, thinking of something to impress fellow trick-or-treaters is sometimes a terrifying haunt. If you find yourself in a fright, here are a few ideas from JibJab that…

  • Super Freak Wallpaper

    The backgrounds that Justin painted for our Super Freak video gave it that extra spooky feeling we needed to tie everything together. Now we’d like to share them with you! Get your computer in the Halloween spirit with these one-of-a-kind wallpapers. Just click on the image and it will take you to a new window.…

  • Happy Halloween from the JibJab Team

    Thanks to our fans, over 12 MILLION people saw the Monster Rap this month!  Wowee zowee! So from all of us, a big haunted thank you and a Happy Halloween!

  • Mashin and Rappin All Across the Nation

    We’ve been waiting all month to share our list news stations and morning shows that have featured Monster Raps, Mashes and videos from our Halloween collection.  We didn’t expect to get to this point and have almost too many to list.  Instead of doing a rundown station by station, location by location on the blog,…

  • The Mouth on that Monster

    Frankenstein’s script called for the monster to convey some real emotion, which is a challenge when you don’t know what the expression of your characters (ie; your uploaded faces) will be. This lead us to our first experiments with animated Starring You mouths, allowing you to have a big toothy grin, show sadness, fear or…

  • Frankenstein B&W Backgrounds

    Our artists came up with sweeping landscapes, black and white rainbows, noirish corridors, evil labs and spooky nights to bring Frankenstein in a Minute to life. Have a better look at some of the scenery below and check out more in our Facebook album!

  • Terrorize Townsfolk Just to Keep’em in Check

    If you frequent our site, you may recognize some faces animated into Frankenstein! Several folks from the JibJab team got to have their heads featured as angry villagers, including most of our summer intern crew that worked on the short so diligently. Meanwhile, we had Jeff take some awesome photos with the beard he was…

  • That Poor Cat

    The cat in Frankenstein really grew on us, in fact we loved him so much we found ways to cram the kitty in all over the place. Here’s a better look at the little furball in action.

  • The Good, Evil Doctor

    For Frankenstein in a Minute, our designs were a bit stretchier and wackier than usual, as apparent in the evil Doctor’s long limbs, good for grabbing things off screen.