what program did they use to make jib jab toons?

On Friday, I had the opportunity to spend about 20 minutes on the phone with Evan Spiridellis, one of the two brothers who make up JibJab Media, for an article that will appear shortly on the Skwigly On-line Animation Magazine website (http://biganimation.com). It was fun to talk to him about their tremendous success with the two Bush-Kerry animated satire shorts. They were created in Flash MX on a consumer-grade Apple MacIntosh G-5 computer. The first one ('This Land') took eight weeks to create, working 12-hour days. The sequel took five weeks. Really only four people worked on them. Evan and his brother Gregg (ages 30 and 33) shared directing credits, with Evan doing most of the art-work and Gregg writing humorous lyrics and so on for the songs, and action, etc., (scripting). Music was arranged and recorded by Evan's wife Adrienne (great job), and all voice-acting was provided by Jim Meskimen (who showed great range and dead-on interpretations). Images of well-known politicians were gleaned from government website. There was a legal action filed against JibJab at one point by Ludlow Music, seeking to restrain distribution because they had not gotten permission to use Woody Guthrie's song 'This Land Is Your Land', but this was finally resolved favorably for JibJab. There have been between 50 million and 60 million 'hits' or on-line views of the shorts, 3 times the number of people viewing either candidate's websites for July, and twice or three times as many watching either the Democratic of Republican national conventions on TV. JibJab's other successful product is a children's book called 'Grumpy Santa', and a line of toys based on that book. They have also done ad work for clients such as Sony, Kraft Foods, Revlon and Disney. Check out the complete article for more details and comments from Evan at the Skwigly website in the next few days.