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  • Techno Jumper

    Welp, Skyler had these Power Strider spring-loaded-stilt-legs delivered to the JibJab offices.  Needless to say, they deserved a test-run in our parking lot.  He took them down to Venice beach where a local dubbed him “Techno Jumper”.  We think the name fits well.

  • Go Deeper into The Latex

    Whoa.  We just released The Latex, an awesome parody of The Matrix (duh) that you can star in!  Some incredible artwork got jammed into this one and it would be a shame not to share hi-res images of our backgrounds with you guys.  Click the images below for a better look, right click to save…

  • Supporting Local Farmers at JibJab

    It must be grocery week at JibJab!  In addition to our shout out to the folks at Ready, Set, Bag!, Gaby has taken up an initiative to get us some vitamins and minerals, all while supporting local community schools and farmers.  We’re now getting weekly bags of veggies and fruits from CSA California, a group…

  • The Dog that Tweets

    Sammie the office pug is a lot of things… noisy, nosy and now… connected.  He started his own Twitter account today, make sure to keep up with his office antics by following him here!

  • Goodbye, Mr. Cook

    Alan Cook, artist, animator and Canadian extraordinaire is leaving JibJab this week, headed to Oregon.  His foot print on the site is massive and we will miss him dearly.  In his honor, we all took to sketching our own little rendition of Alan in a book we presented to him on Friday.  Some of our…

  • JibJab Does Our Laundry???

    We had a big team meeting today where we went over our three year plan (can you say AWESOME things on the horizon?).  Not to brag (ok, we’re bragging a little) but right at the end of the meeting, Gregg instilled a new office policy.  On Mondays, if JibJab employees bring in their dirty laundry,…

  • Still Feeling the Force

    Star Wars Starring You is still going strong and we’re still feeling the force in the studio… namely due to the ten or so cardboard cut outs we’ve strategically placed around every corner. It took us a few months to get used to their silhouettes hanging around (every once in a while when closing up…

  • For Immediate Release: JibJab hits 1MM Transactions!

    This morning we sent out a statement announcing one of our biggest milestones ever, 1 million transactions!  So far TechCrunch has picked up the story as well, check out the press release below! JIBJAB MILESTONE: ONE YEAR, ONE MILLION TRANSACTIONS Company Establishes Leadership Position in Personalized Entertainment VENICE, CA – June 28, 2010 – JibJab,…

  • Bring Your Dog to Work Day!

    While every day is bring your dog to work day for Sammie, our office pug, today is bring your dog to work day for the rest of our JibJabbers with pets.  Meet Lucy and Oliver, a German Sheperd mix and corgi respectively.  Both were rescue dogs, Lucy was saved just last week from the Downey…

  • Updating/Downloading The Star Spangled Banner

    We revisited more than one piece for the Fourth of July this year…  in 2008, when we offered our collaboration with ThePartyParty.com as an Independece Day eCard, it featured footage of presidents from the past century, sliced up to sing us a rendition of “The Star Spangled Banner”.  After a few years passed on our…

  • The Doc Side

    We passed around a google doc for organizational purposes while tackling the massive project of turning three films worth of footage into a ‘Starring You’ movie. As you can see, it’s pretty intense and colorful, but it does wonders with keeping the project organized, tracked and looping in everyone involved. This doc for “Return of…

  • An Awesome Addition and a Major Loss

    We wanted our offices to reflect the awesomeness that Star Wars: Starring You has brought to our site, so we bestowed a challenge upon one of our craftiest co-workers. Devin was asked to create a mega sized Millennium Falcon to hang in our tech suite, and boy did he step up to the plate. Click…

  • CupCake De Mayo

    Yesterday we celebrated Cinco De Mayo as traditionally as one can, with tequila, cervezas and a giant cupcake pinata. Too bad our parking lot doesn’t have any trees.

  • 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!