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Category: Inside JibJab

  • Meet Me In “This Land”

    Our central meeting room is nick named “This Land”, for reasons we shouldn’t have to explain if you’re reading this blog.  It must see at least four or five meetings a day, be it tech brain storming, laying out the calendar for the months ahead or going over scripts with tweaks.  Mostly though, it sees…

  • The Hand Library

    Not everyone may know that many of the artists and programmers at JibJab also work for us as models.  Sounds glitzy, right? Our good looks are undeniable. We often nab people while they’re working at their desks for a quick photoshoot to fill out the assets we need for animating, and one of the biggest…

  • The Unsung Heroes of JibJab

    At JibJab, the sexy work often gets the “oos and ahs” of the crowd. Animators animating… product and engineering building cool new features… but who are the guys who make sure you, the audience, can actually experience all that magic? It’s the JibJab network team. From servers to storage to databases, these guys are toiling…

  • Chat with JibJab Live on Justin.tv!

    JibJab is going live!  Thanks to Justin.tv, we are getting the opportunity to live stream a video meet-and-greet-fun-time-chat this Thursday at 4pm Pacific Time (7pm Eastern).  Justin.tv is the biggest name in live streaming broadcasts and we’re excited to jump on board!  So this Thursday, take a little break and meet Gregg Spiridellis, half the…

  • Christmas Carol Concepts

    We’ve posted another Facebook album full of art on our … Facebook.  This time we chronicled the dickens out of our Charles Dickens masterpiece, A Christmas Carol!  Click on to see a story of Christmas past!

  • Our RagTag Christmas Tree

    We busted the old tree out of the box this week, adorning her with candy canes, ElfYourself ornaments and the occasional Nasty Santa doll left over from a few years back.  For a star, we made good use of a JibJab beanie cap with a dart stuck on it.  That’s just how we roll here. …

  • Birthday Wagon!

    As previously explored on the blog, Corey brings a wagon filled with treats around the office every Wednesday to put a little pep in our mid-week step. While we all feasted on treats, we were sad that Corey never really gets to have a wagon surprise of her own. But that changed this week. In…

  • Stress Balls

    We are in insane crunch mode right now as tech and art are wrapped for the holiday season.  Nights are late, mornings are early and it can get pretty intense.  So we started throwing these balls at each other.  It’s cathartic!  In fact, your blogger may have had a ball thrown at him after taking…

  • The Monster Mash Animatic

    Take a look at the animatic from our Monster Mash video and you’ll see the skeleton behind the creation of a Starring You.  Location concepts and character angles are decided right away and usually make it to the final cut, the dancing however is quite often left to interpretation.  While the story remains the same,…

  • A Count you can Count on

    As Monster Mash soars over 7 million views, we continue to look behind the scenes.  Its probably just as fun for us to act in Starring You videos as it is for our fans to cast their faces on the site.  We’re lucky enough to have a staff full of goofballs who added quite a…

  • Rule of Thumbs

    When launching a ton of new content all over the site like we did with Halloween, the responsibilities involved are massive.  Every piece we launch goes through testing, tweaks, renders and troubleshooting with a whole team of people. That aside, one of the biggest tasks can be getting graphics and thumbnails together so we can…

  • Where Have We Seen That Brain Before?

    More Monster Mash fun-factoids!  Shooting dozens of videos a year on our little green screen, we often use our small stash of props in as many ways as we can.  JibJabbers with keen eyes will notice toy guns, beat up suits and other hand props making a few repeat appearances.  When it came time to…

  • The Bride Was a … Guy!?

    More fun Monster Mash trivia!  We needed someone with extra lanky arms for our monstrous bride and our casting landed right on Jeff, who did a wonderful bride boogie for us.  For covering up his manliness, long sleeves and gloves did a wonder!  When we can, we like to use gloves and loosefitting clothes as…

  • Wearing Werefeet

    When making characters for our Starring You dances, everything but the head is costume designed and made up. Sometimes in our little 425×319 pixel movies, you lose great details that take a lot of time to put together. That brings us to the werewolf from the Monster Mash, who we gave some really cool, but…

  • JibJab is Coming to Facebook’s Gift Store!

    Huge news!  We’re excited to officially announce that JibJab videos and pictures will soon be available to everyone as a part of the Facebook gift store!  This is the first time Facebook has offered anything in their gift store besides their stylishly designed icons and we’re ecstatic to be a part of it!  Our material…