The JibJab Blog

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 sporting in preparation to have him star as the doctor in a scene. Sadly, we realized too late that this was going to be one of many Starring You roles, so with lament, we deleted Jeff’s incredible saw-wielding faces from the short. Here they are now for your belated enjoyment.

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.

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.

Take a peek at our animatic for Frankenstein, sans the texture and colors to come.  It will give you a whole new appreciation for the piece when we publish the insanely background art next week!

DJ Adrienne mixes it up, blue screen style!  This video concludes our behind the scenes look at the making of our Monster Rap , now onto the making of Frankenstein!

When you take creatures away from our Monster Rap and leave just the floating head,  you can really get a grasp of how much movement we have to match a face to in any given scene.  Also, it’s really spooky. The more faces that go into the scene, the harder it is for us to animate and sync it up correctly, so appreciate those 5 person Starring You videos, they’re rough on our animators!