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  • Studio Snooping

    Our studio is rarely empty. On any given day during the week (and sometimes weekends too!) you can find artists in there working on a new video, creating puppets, painting, drawing a live model or even working on personal projects after work. However, from now until mid-September, our studio will be mostly off limits due to the intense production of one particular video.

    This morning, we poked our heads in to find Jeff working in the dark, with only a few lights shining on his makeshift stop-motion stage. With a quick “Woops! Sorry about that!” we ducked back out the door and decided to return later in the day, when there would be a break in filming.

    When we returned, the studio was empty. Perfect time for snooping! We flipped on the lights and were able to fully see what Jeff has been working on the last few days.

    These adorable characters were small, but full of charming details. We are eager to see what else Jeff creates for this video, and we can’t wait to share the finished product with you! For now, though, the title of the video will have to remain a mystery, but trust us, it’s going to be a hoot – maybe even a toot! 

    August 26, 2011
  • Formal Friday

    It’s a wonder what a last minute email can inspire! Thursday afternoon, one of our rock star summer interns sent an email to the JibJab team, coupled with a bribe…

    Dear sir or madam,
    Did you know that most companies have “Casual Friday”?
    Here at JibJab though, it seems like everyday is Casual Friday.
    So I declare tomorrow to be Formal Friday. Put on your fanciest Pants.
    They say that you should dress for the job that you want… so let’s pretend that the job we all want is fancy.
    Anyone who dresses up gets a cookie 🙂
    Ashlyn

    Exactly how far will your average JibJabber go for a cookie?


    *At the Paris Opera House


    *Us acting silly in Hawaii


    We clean up nice don’t we?

    August 22, 2011
  • New Birthday eCards!

    We’ve added a bunch of new Birthday eCards for you, JibJab Members, to send to your friends! You can find them here & check ’em out below.  Not a member?  Sign up today for only a buck a month!

    Beating Myself Up

    Cash in eCards

    Doctor Approved

    Treat Yourself 

    August 15, 2011
  • The Drawing Cult

    As you know we have the best artists around creating the best videos and eCards for you to send.  Every Thursday night some of them get together to sketch each other and to add to the building decore we decided to display them on a wall near the entrance of our work space.  Check out their talent below – pretty cool right?

    August 11, 2011
  • Today is International Beer Day!

    Today is International Beer Day.  On this day we are VERY pleased to announce that our bottle cap collection has reached capacity!!

    Check out this picture from last summer of the water bottle not even nearly half full.  With our awesome beer fridge and Starring You mugs, we can only hope the international community will one day understand that EVERY day is Beer Day!

    Will you celebrate with a beer?  Use this free eCard to invite a friend to grab a brew!

    August 5, 2011
  • Got Animator’s Block? Pop a Wheelie to Cure It!

    We caught one of our fantastic animators, Kurt, doing something strange in the hallway today…popping a wheelie!

    He said he had a little bit of animator’s block and needed to test his balance to get himself back on track. Want to ride like Kurt? Cast yourself in this BMX postable and enjoy the half pipe!

    August 2, 2011
  • Jib-n-dales

    Girls giggling behind the studio door, five tear-off pants lined up on the wardrobe rack, the hit single “Da Dip” playing in the background…this can only mean one thing: The Chippendales have come to JibJab!

    We were lucky enough to spend a day with five Chippendales dancers who flew in straight from Las Vegas to do this shoot. Their toned bodies and seductive dance moves had all the girls in our office crowding around the studio door to sneak a peek!

    And of course, everyone in the office wanted their own picture with the world famous Chippendales! Here’s our director Adrienne taking a photo break with the guys.

    This was definitely a fun filled afternoon! Check out our Facebook album to sneak your own peek of our Chippendales shoot.

    July 26, 2011
  • Yeah, Team!

    We are gearing up to launch a new product next month and last Friday we hit a new milestone.  Here is Chris Poe, celebrating the team’s accomplishments.  Curious what we’ve got up our sleeve?  Stay tuned…

    Check out this video of the moment!

    July 25, 2011
  • The Viral Voice

    You remember the guy who is the voice behind our Original videos, Jim Meskimen. You know his George Bush impression from This Land and you’ve already heard his Bill Clinton.

    But what about his George Clooney? Or Woody Allen? Craig Ferguson? No?  Then check out his latest viral video!  In it he performs Clarence’s speech from William Shakespeare’s Richard III as a number of different celebrities. Now that’s what we call talent.

    July 21, 2011
  • Sick…but it’s SUMMER?!

    There’s really nothing worse than getting a cold in the summer.  Right now at the JibJab offices a nasty cough is being passed around forcing all of us to add Emergen-C to our waters and avoid visiting the infected desks.  Colds, although very annoying, don’t keep us down for long since we work to create fun things for you all to share online like this brand new get well card – Sick Tissues!

    Know anyone who is feeling crummy? Send them a funny get well card to raise their spirits!

    July 19, 2011
  • Planking, Owling, JibJabbing!

    Everyone has jumped on board the planking craze – lying face down with your arms by your sides like a wooden plank, taking a picture & sharing it online. This week Tom Green claimed he began the trend in 1994, so of course a few of us wanted to try it out in and around the office…


    However we’ve heard that owling is the new planking, so of course we wanted to try that too…


    But today a new trend is born…JibJabbing!!   Just plop your head on the nearest object, hide your body and snap a pic.   Or you can just go to JibJab.com and use our cropping tools to cut out your head and insert it in to one of our animations! Share your JibJabbing pictures with us on our Facebook page or tweet the picture with the hashtag #jibjabbing!  Looking forward to seeing where you will JibJab!



    July 15, 2011
  • The Elephant Remains!

    Ever hear the phrase, the elephant in the room?  Here at JibJab our high ceilings and various suites make for a neat setting to work, but bad for air circulation.  For years this has been the elephant in the room as everyone toiled away sweating through the summer months without complaints.  To bring comfort back during record high summer temperatures, we recently installed a  brand new air conditioner…its big, gray, clunky…and still makes us think there’s an elephant in the room!

    If only we could keep cool like the elephants do – by water skiing!

    How are you holding up in the summer heat?

    July 14, 2011
  • MLB Final Vote Nominees In “Take Me Out to the Ball Game” Videos!

    This summer we have teamed up with Major League Baseball to bring baseball fans everywhere a chance to appear in a fun animated video singing the famous seventh inning stretch song “Take Me Out to the Ball Game” in their favorite team uniform.

    In honor of MLB’s annual Final Vote ballot (now in it’s 10th year!), we created two special videos for each league.   The “Take Me Out to the Ball Game” videos show the MLB Final Vote nominees in the jerseys for this year’s All-Star Game. Watch the Final Vote nominees in the “Take Me Out to the Ball Game” video, vote and create your own!

    Today is the last day for fans to vote for the players who deserve to join the All-Star game rosters.   Who did you vote for?

    July 7, 2011
  • CNR available on Weird Al’s Latest Album!

    All the way back in August of 2009, we teamed up with Weird Al to produce the first music video that you can star in!  As you know we now have a great collection of musical everyday fun videos you can cast yourself into, even some with famous tracks. So why are we bringing this up you ask?  Weird Al has released his new album, Alpocalypse, on iTunes and our CNR video is included!

    How cool is that?! Check out the album then cast yourself in the video!

    July 6, 2011
  • A Promising Summer


    Every summer here at JibJab we welcome in a group of highly talented, super cool interns to come on board and be a part of the team for 3 months.  We get hundreds of applicants for the JibJab Internship Program and the amount of talent out there is just staggering!  If we were a larger studio we would have hired DOZENS more but unfortunately we had to narrow it down to just 8 people.  This year’s incredible team joins us from the following places…

    Out of the Savannah College of Art and Design in Georgia comes the amazing Kurt Hartfelder* and Sean Rhodes.  Joining us from Sheridan in Ontario, Canada we have the astonishing Ashlyn Anstee  and Eddie West.  From Ringling in Sarasota, FL comes the multi-faceted, multi-talented Elizabeth McMahill and rounding out the team from CalArts in Valencia, CA comes the powerhouse trio of Jeff Lui, Kai Wu and Stephen Herczeg.

    We are SUPER excited to have these guys and gals on board and are looking forward to a very productive summer.  The JibJab Internship Program is not about getting free labor to fetch us coffee.  (We get our own darn coffee!)  This group is hired and paid to work hand-in-hand with our full-time staff artists on real projects for the studio.  So far they have only been here for a month and we can already tell that we have chosen wisely.  Here’s to a most excellent summer!

    * We just had to add that Kurt used to be a professional baseball player because we think it’s super cool.  You can check out his stats here!

    June 30, 2011
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