About — Made By Things

MeganVojacek

Administrator

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MattVojacek

Founder &Creative Director

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ShelbyHagerdon

Executive CreativeProducer & Writer

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Colinvan ’t veld

Motion Director

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Melissa LeeJohnson

Associate Creative Director

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At a Glance

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Our Mission

Making People Care
About Things

Our Practice

We help organizations turn expertise into understanding, and understanding into trust.

Our Process

1. Consult (strategy)
2. Create (production)
3. Cultivate (partnerships)

Our Deliverables

People Stories

(the memorable presentation of an organization’s narratives that emotionally resonate with an audience to earn their trust)

The Results

Enlightened audience confidence, thriving retention, and long-term brand affinity.

Our Partners

We partner with organizations doing meaningful work in industries that warrant emotional resonance.

What people are saying

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The Made x Things team are experts in choreographing a fine balance between compelling storytelling and nuanced animation about a technical subject matter to deliver inspiring results that drive customer engagement through both excitement and education. Matt and the team were a pleasure to collaborate with as we worked together to tell our story.

Joshua Linton, IBEX

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The Made By Things team did exceptional work across many projects for us at HOMAGE. They were collaborative, reasons to our direction and incredibly skilled to deliver us quality stop motion. It make be cliche to say, but I’m going to say it anyway…they brought our products to life. They gave personality and whimsy to our tees in a way that’s authentic to our brand and I look forward to working with them in the future.

Justin Nottke, HOMAGE

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The final product Matt and his team delivered blew us away. Matt helped us take a complicated concept and distill it down into a concise and digestible story. Our main goal in creating this explainer video was to help educate our future customers about the massive benefits of Rhove. One of the biggest challenges in the Fintech space is building trust. Many companies in the space face the challenge of having a highly regulated, complicated product offering. This explainer video will be a game-changer in terms of generating awareness for and understanding of our mission and our product. Matt’s iterative and collaborative process delivered on-time and on-budget every step of the process.”

Jonathan Slemp, Rhove

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The final work was A+. The attention to detail was spot on. Made By Things successfully managed five 60-second animations over a 4-month time frame….not once, but twice. The individual project schedules were never set in stone so the flexibility and efficiency with which they work was great.”