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  • Star Wars Starring You!

    So we’re kind of super-insanely-excited to announce that we’ve teamed up with Lucasfilm to bring Star Wars – Starring You to the world, which boasts a Starring You recap of each of the original three Star Wars movies. Since we’ve been keeping this secret for, say, half a year, we’ve got a lot of fun…

  • JibJab Roulette

    Big sites have been changing this week, Digg revealed a new layout, YouTube updated it’s design and we’ve added new features to our community that we’ve been working on for a long time to make reality. JibJab now supports webcams for birthday greetings! For now, we haven’t figured out exactly how to connect you with…

  • 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…

  • The Bits and Pieces Behind Kama Sutra

    When we set out to match the truly unique style of the Kama Sutra for a sultry Valentine’s Day card, the first step was to do our homework…  which of course meant looking through the ancient Indian text over and over. We poured through a variety of Kama Sutra books and images on the internet,…

  • 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…

  • Where we got “Let’s Make Out”

    We’re pretty active when it comes to seeking out cool talented people to collaborate with, hunting down internet celebrities, taking hints from friends and browsing Youtube thoroughly. When Andy, our director of development stumbled across the YouTube video below, it pleaded to be transformed into a JibJab Sendable. The makeouts were irresistible and prompted us…

  • Valentights

    We have so many cool Valentine’s Day pieces to share that we hardly know where to start, so let’s begin with “Let’s Get Physical”! We were psyched last month to strike a deal which gave us the go-ahead to use the classic 1982 jam by Olivia Newton-John. In homage to her 80’s workout video, we…

  • Messaging Make Over!

    We’ve just given our messaging system an overhaul and changed up our layout for sending and receiving cards, allowing you to add a note onto our eCards for special occasions and holidays. This is the page that you will see when you are done creating an eCard. It is ready to be sent! And this…

  • Indoor Skiing

    In order to get the awesome angles and movements of an airborne downhill skiier, we couldn’t follow suit with our figure skating video and shoot on location.  Instead, Devin donned a whole mess of ski gear and made the moves for us against our green screen, sitting on ledges and wiggling his skiis around for…

  • On Location: Our All Nighter Figure Skating Shoot!

    Several months ago we posted a flyer up at the Pickwick Gardens skating rink in Burbank, looking for a pair of professional figure skaters to show us their stuff and hopefully put on an impressive display for a new ‘Starring You’ video. Boy did we luck out! Soon after our posting, we were contacted by…

  • A Happy Birthday from Hobo Divine!

    We’ve been working with some new artists to expand the variety of birthday cards in our collection and we’re psyched to share our collaboration with Jamie Mason AKA Hobo Divine.  Jamie recently posted a behind the scenes blog on the graph paper sketches he made up for the new birthday card, which is definitely worth…

  • An Avalanche of Holiday Stuff Has Gone Live!

    A lot of blood, sweat, tears and holiday cheer went into delivering this, a mind boggling amount of holiday content! We’ll be highlighting these pieces and the late nights that went into creating them as we plow through the next few months, but for now, check out our filtering system for the holidays, which will…

  • A Heaping Helping of JibJab

    While everyone is finding their inner elves via ElfYourself, we wanted to make sure that the new Thanksgiving art and animations our team designed for 2009 don’t go unnoticed! Last year we were so busy, we didn’t get to launch any postables, so we made up for it this year with some instant classics. From…

  • Refreshing Night of the Living Dead

    Released in 2007 while the primaries were just heating up for the 2008 election, Night of the Living Republicans and Night of the Living Democrats were a mix of clips from Night of the Living Dead and some original footage we shot and animated. Now that we know who won the election, we wanted to…

  • Do the Monster Mash!

    It’s officially witching season and we’re pumped to finally release our frighteningly good Starring You Monster Mash! We’ve pushed our technology further than ever with this one, implementing aforementioned tinting technology and making hair pieces even more ridiculous than the huge Soul Train afros we introduced last month. Since our launch this morning Monster Mash…