Mightybytes
DEMO REEL
Mightybytes has created a wide variety of digital media projects for an even wider variety of clients over the years. Hit the play button to check out our demo reel or view other project samples using the thumbnails below. You can sort projects by category, industry, or date.2008
Career Builder
Football Game
Looking for a new job? Take a break from your current search to play The Blue and Orange Bowl, an animated interactive game created by Mightybytes for CareerBuilder. Game play is based on completing passes and features three levels of increased speed and difficulty. The Blue and Orange Bowl tracks top ten high scores, features a profanity filter, and allows players to email a copy of the game to a friend. Can you beat the high score?2008
Chicago Diabetes Project
Web Site
The Chicago Diabetes Project is hard at work on a revolutionary endeavor that will provide a functional cure for those living with type one diabetes. This global collaboration of doctors, researchers and scientists brought Mightybytes into the fold as their go-to web, design, and video team to help spread the word about their mission. For the CDP site, we designed and implemented a content-managed solution that would be expandable over time, facilitate donations to the organization, and support many video and rich media elements. Among other things, the site provides critical information on scientific challenges, research breakthroughs, and testimonials from patients who have benefitted from clinical trials. It's also a super cool organization with amazing possibilities, so check it out.2008
Woodia la Piccolo
Furniture Company Web Site
Who knew actor Jeremy Sisto (Six Feet Under, Law and Order) moonlights as a furniture maker? We do now. Mightybytes partnered with our pals at Little Green Cube to bring Mr. Sisto's furniture company site to life. Woodia la Piccolo sells distinctive furniture comprised of environmentally-friendly materials. The company site features a photo gallery, e-commerce, a product tearsheet, and a custom administrative back-end to manage content and sales.2008
Shoss & Assoc.
Intercultural Talk Blog
With topics ranging from ethnic festivals and multicultural marketing to prejudice and stereotypes, interculturaltalk.org provides comprehensive online resources for discussing issues of race and multiculturalism. Shoss & Associates Strategic Marketing, Inc. hired Mightybytes to create a comfortable, yet intriguing site where readers of all ethnic backgrounds could come together to talk freely about their cultures. Mightybytes skinned an install of WordPress with a custom design template that reflected the client's sensibilities and needs for expansion over time. We also helped the company flesh out site content and outline opportunities for increased online visibility through social media strategies, SEO and online marketing efforts.2008
Educational Theater Association
Video Shoot
Mightybytes provided the Educational Theatre Association with video production services for an all-day seminar on Directing for the Theater. Michigan Tech University's Roger Held facilitated an all day workshop for high school drama teachers that covered all the nuances that being a director of high school actors entails.2008
Shakespeare Squared
Company Web Site
We revel in any chance we get to collaborate with Chicago-based educational development house Shakespeare Squared. Most recently, Mightybytes gave their company site a complete overhaul from front to back with a new front-end design scheme based on existing brand standards and a content managed administrative back-end. Shakespeare Squared and its subsidiary Upgrade Education turn to Mightybytes time and time again for online digitial media education solutions. The companies are not only regular Mightybytes clients, but collaborative partners as well. The complementary services that they offer the publishing industry make partnering with them on full-service digital projects a natural fit.2008
Chicago Board of Tourism
Chicago Kids Tour
Mightybytes collaborated with the Chicago Board of Tourism and MKB to create an animated interactive kids tour of the city. Chicago For Kids highlights various cultural Chicago landmarks and includes maps and games, as well as an animated narrator who guides kids from stop to stop, outlining highlights and points of interest along the way. Users can download video podcasts of the tour in English, Spanish, German, Japanese and Chinese Mandarin as well.2007
Rand McNally
Online User Guide
Educators rejoice! Integrating geographic skills into your curriculum just got a whole lot easier. Chicago-based map and atlas publisher Rand McNally wanted an intuitive and easy way for teachers and students to learn about all the features and helpful content their subscription-based education site Rand McNally Classroom has to offer. From collaborating on an easy-to-understand script to deployment across multiple browsers and computing platforms, Mightybytes offered a complete solution for Rand McNally's needs. With over 100 screens of information, creating the user guide and tutorial was well-suited to Mightybytes multidisciplinary approach, which included script writing, art direction, motion graphics and animation, video production and editing, original music composition, and of course lots and lots of coding to get it functioning properly.2005
Personal PAC
Awards Luncheon Videos
For several consecutive years Personal PAC, an Illinois-specific political action committee dedicated to the sole purpose of maintaining women's reproductive healthcare rights, turned to Mightybytes to create support videos and presentation graphics for their annual awards luncheons, which included appearances by singer Judy Collins, actor Amy Madigan, and then Senator Barack Obama. One of the videos was later repurposed into a fundraising DVD for Personal PAC's biking event, Choice Cycle 73.2005-2007
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Power Presentations DVD Content
McDougal Littell, a division of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt publishers won a Codie Award for Best Social Studies Instructional Solution from the Software and Information Industry Association for their Power Presentations DVD, an interactive learning tool that accompanies their American History and World History textbooks. Mightybytes provided interface design for this product and built a series of a dozen animated interactive 'mini-applications' on various historical topics, including Revolutionary War battle tactics, textiles during the Industrial Revolution, trench warfare, the Great Wall of China, The Battle of Vicksburg, and so on. Each title includes animated photo slideshows with voiceover, 2D and 3D animation, and scrolling, printable text that can be read by screen readers for accessibility-compliance.2008
DCA Theater
Site Redesign
Mightybytes helped the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs revamp the Cultural Center Theater's site with a fresh look and tons of new functionality. While rich colors, provocative imagery, and a snazzy red curtain help bring the site visually to life, it's not just all looks and no personality. We employed an Expression Engine CMS to help bring everything from blogs, calendars, and detailed show information to images, ticketing and advertising under the client's control. Enjoy the show!2008
Rand McNally
Classroom Demo Disc
To promote their award-winning online educational tool Rand McNally Classroom, the folks at Rand McNally asked Mightybytes to help them build a cross-platform interactive solution for both sales reps and potential customers. The result of our collaborative efforts is a disc chock full of interactive features and digital goodness with samples from the product's best assets, such as printable maps, lesson plans, games, and articles. Interactive history maps and portions of the Classroom User Guide and Tutorial, which were also created by Mightybytes, are part of the disc content as well.2008
Bookstream, Inc.
Author Interview: Marya Hornbacher
Pulitzer Prize-nominated author Marya Hornbacher shared insights on her writing process and struggles with bipolar disorder for the launch of Madness: A Bipolar Life, her latest book from Houghton Mifflin. Our client, New York-based Bookstream services the publishing industry with an online promotional video product called Bookwrap. Mightybytes produces the video portions of Bookwraps when authors are either in Chicago or when Bookstream needs a lean and mobile location team to shoot interviews onsite around the country. The full Bookwrap can be viewed here.2005-2008
Medela
Product Launch Materials
This one's a testament to the power of prototyping. Mightybytes got in early during the development of a revolutionary new product from Medela, creator of innovative products and resources for BreastFeeding. Well-designed, sturdy, lightweight, and most importantly compact, the FreeStyle breast pump offers new mothers freedom in the palm of their hand. In addition to building functional Flash interface prototypes for the product itself back in 2005, Mightybytes also created numerous media materials for the launch in early 2008, including the Flash portion of a product microsite and several English and Spanish educational DVDs on use and care. You can view some of our work, including a version of the Flash interface protoype, here.2008
Kindermusik International
ABC Music & Me DVD
KIDesign/Kindermusik International is renowned for helping young children learn important language, pre-literacy, math, and social skills by combining proven educational methods with a fun mix of music and movement activities. When it came time for the company to create an instructional DVD that highlighted both the playful and the educational sides of their products, the big kids at Mightybytes came up with a few smooth moves of our own to help bring the project to life. We worked hand-in-hand with the KIDesign team to orchestrate a tightly choreographed video, animation, and production approach that helps parents understand how Kindermusik's ABC Music and Me product line develops children's pre-literacy skills both in the classroom and at home. The disc features content in both English and Spanish.2008
Upgrade Education
Mobile Media e-lectures
Digital publisher Upgrade Education came to Mightybytes for help with their Editorial University line of mobile media e-learning products. The e-lectures we created for them demystify the production process for writers and editors looking to gain more experience in educational publishing. Each lecture features our standard blend of design, animation, camera work, music, and post-production while covering individual publishing topics such as preparing files and state standards. The lectures can be viewed in their entirety on the Upgrade Education site.2007
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Multi-Language Glossary
To address the problem of creating custom multi-language glossaries for students in numerous subjects, Mightybytes devised a modular Flash and XML-based solution for educational publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt that allows educators to build printable glossaries for their students in English, Arabic, Chinese, Haitian Creole, Hmong, Portugese, Russian, Spanish, and Vietnamese. As a modular online solution, the glossary tool can easily be ported from subject to subject with additional languages added as the need arises. Mightybytes also created a Java-based Excel to XML converter to aid in the conversion process.2008
Rand McNally
Interactive History Maps
Better learning through interaction. That's the approach Chicago-based map and atlas publisher Rand McNally took when they hired Mightybytes to create two and a half dozen interactive history maps for their subscription-based educational site, Rand McNally Classroom. Created in Flash, these maps cover a wide range of American and world history topics such as African independence, the Underground Railroad, WWII European and Pacific Theatres, and the spread of Islam. Mightybytes designed several interface templates and created animated interactive activities based on Rand McNally's award-winning map content. To view the maps, you can sign up for a free 14-day trial of Rand McNally Classroom at the link above.2006
The Marketing Store
Flash Game Prototypes
Bowling, racing, skating, and all sorts of arcade-style fun sit right in the palm of your hand when you play the Flash-based games Mightybytes created for The Marketing Store. What's more, you can satisfy your sweet tooth while you play. The Marketing Store contracted Mightybytes to build over a half-dozen Flash games for a retail candy maker over a several month period. The games possessed a very specific set of technical specifications since they would not be deployed online but rather hard-coded onto small logic boards and encased in palm-sized plastic gaming devices that also served as candy holders. Sweet!2007
Chicago Botanic Gardens
Educational DVD
Roll up your sleeves and get your hands dirty with the educational environmental sciences DVD that Mightybytes created for the Chicago Botanic Gardens. The DVD accompanies a textbook training guide that CBG also produced and follows a series of hands-on activities that educators can use with their students to help teach ecology, soil conservation, and other important environmental science topics. The project included an onsite video shoot, editing, color correction, graphics production, and DVD authoring, as well as consulting on packaging, technical specifications, system requirements, and so on.2007
Neo-Futurists
Web Site
The Neo-Futurists' Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind is a seminal Chicago theater institution that also holds the lucky distinction of being the longest running show in Chicago to date. Mightybytes maintained the Neos' DIY aesthetic in our redesign while also highlighting their recurring theme of randomness by having as many site elements as possible randomly load on each page. The Neos also agreed to be the showcase project for Tim Frick's interactive process guide, Managing Interactive Media Projects. This project is the recipient of a 2007 American Graphic Design Award, a 2008 Communicator Award, and a 2008 Creative Shake Award.2004
Scholarship Chicago
Fundraiser DVD
Mightybytes created a fundraiser DVD for Scholarship Chicago, a Chicago-based not-for-profit organization that provides college scholarships for economically disadvantaged students. Production on the project included editing, creation of animated titles and lower thirds, and a DVD menu system that Scholarship Chicago then used to solicit donations.2004
BLKipper Photography
Web Site and Identity
In addition to creating all of Chicago photographer Barbara Kipper's promotional print collateral (business cards, postcards, invites, etc), Mightybytes designed, implemented and overhauled Barbara's web site several times. The most recent version features a Movable Type CMS and custom Photoshelter implementation, which we use to collaborate with galleries on prospective shows. Mightybytes also helped facilitate gallery shows with the Anne and Jacques Baruch Collection and FLATFILEgalleries in 2006 and 2007. Barbara's site is the recipient of 2008 Communicator and Creative Shake Awards.2007
Judi Lapinsohn
Holiday Greetings
Judi Lapinsohn came to Mightybytes looking for an elegant solution to send holiday wishes to her clients while simultaneously alerting them to the fact that she had a new web site. We used design elements from her site and added sound effects to create an animated Flash greeting that Judi e-mailed to her clients. Mightybytes also created Judi's web site and print collateral. In 2007, we created a new animated card as well, this one focusing more on New Year greetings.2007
Grotto on State
Web Site
Grotto on State is a classic Italian steakhouse and lounge located in Chicago's Gold Coast neighborhood. Mightybytes designed and implemented an online presence for this upscale restaurant that included custom photography, online reservations, and a content management system that enables easy updates of event listings, specials, and so on.2006
Accenture/Post Effects
Flash Video Application
We worked with the folks at Post Effects to create a video-driven Flash application for Accenture that demystifies the concept and deployment of internet protocol television (IPTV). Mightybytes' role in the project included animation, Flash production and programming, video compression and consulting with the client on how best to break up their content into web-friendly pieces and deploy it on the Accenture servers.2006
Abelson Taylor/Alexion
Multi-Player Game
Our friends at Abelson Taylor have called upon us for a wide variety of interactive and media production projects since we started working with them in 2005. In December 2006 we helped create a multi-player quiz game for a healthcare trade show in Florida. The game, which tested users' knowledge on a variety of treatment-related topics, featured three separate player stations and a server, which tracked correct and incorrect answers, high scores, and collected customer data for use once the show was over.2006
Advocate Health Partners
CBT Module
The Media Center at Advocate Health Partners produces computer-based training modules on various aspects of healthcare and medical treatment. Over the last quarter of 2006 Mightybytes created a CBT module on monitoring and treating type 1 and 2 diabetes. A video narrator guides users through stages of the disease and treatment options. When doctors successfully complete the module and accompanying quiz they earn CME accreditation.2006
Trendsight
Trendsight.com
Over our several year relationship with Trendsight, the premier agency on marketing to women, we have given the company's presentation template a visual overhaul, designed various print collateral elements, edited and compressed video, and created an entirely new web site, blog and e-newsletter template for the company.2006
Scanlon Corporate Communications
Animated e-mail Announcements
Mightybytes has been creating animated email marketing campaigns for Scanlon Corporate Communications for many years, including their annual holiday greeting and an animated moving e-announcement when the company switched offices in 2005.2006
Personal PAC
personalpac.org
Illinois political action committee Personal PAC asked Mightybytes to completely overhaul their online presence from the ground up, transforming simple static graphics and text into a robust online business tool. The resulting site features a Joomla-driven content management system, online donation engine, and customer relationship management solution to keep the organization in touch with its donors.2006
Gay Games Chicago
Opening Ceremonies Content
For the opening ceremonies of 2006's Gay Games at Chicago's Soldier Field, Mightybytes worked with Jam Events to create a dozen animated graphic loops that provided key messaging throughout the event. We also produced a high definition greenscreen video shoot featuring well-known athletes such as Greg Louganis and Esera Tuaolo for a video tribute to Olympian decathlete Tom Waddell, founder of the Gay Games. The video was later edited by the folks at Red Car and played on Soldier Field's giant Jumbotrons during the ceremonies.2006
Jam Productions/Dow Chemical
Cousteau Edit and Animated Visuals
Mightybytes was asked by Jam Events to provide visual content for a trade show event that was sponsored by Dow based on a graphic created by Pathway Creative. In addition to creating animated high definition visuals for the event, we pieced together a five-minute HD teaser culled from Jean Michel Cousteau's 'Voyage to Kure' PBS series. The video and animations were prominently featured during the event at The Chicago Theater just prior to Cousteau's opening speech on the importance of ocean conservation.2006
Medela
Digital Prototypes and Simulations
Mightybytes has produced several interactive media applications for Medela, creator of innovative products and resources for BreastFeeding. Projects include a digital prototype for a potential new product line and a software simulation application for a device that measures suction levels on one of the company's line of products. The company is currently employing these applications across the organization to help create future products and market existing products.2005
David A. Kipper, PhD, ABPP
Web Site
Dr. Kipper liked the site we did for his family business consulting practice, which led to our creating a personal site for him as well. Dr. Kipper's site focuses on credentials, academia, psychotherapy services, and general personal information and features photography by his wife, Barbara Levy Kipper, whose site we also created.2003
Sears
How-To-Measure CD-ROM
Mightybytes teamed up with the folks at RDR Productions to create an educational CD-ROM that would help Sears meet the challenge of standardizing their many clothing vendors' systems of measurement. Designed to accompany a Sears-produced book outlining all measurement codes, the disc features over one hundred video clips and voiceovers to visualize measurement standards for all possible pieces of clothing, including hats, shorts, skirts, pants, tops, jackets, and so on in an interface that facilitates access to each clip with just a couple mouse clicks.2002
Rigby Education
Educational Software Titles
Mightybytes was contracted by Rigby Education, a publisher of educational children's books to create a multi-language, multi-platform CD-ROM series for twelve titles in their popular Pebble Soup book series. Each title in this long-term project for children ages five to eight utilizes visually appealing interactive computer-based animation and audio to teach reading and comprehension skills through read-alongs, games, and activities in both English and Spanish.2003
Chicago Filmmakers
Film Festival Trailers
Chicago Filmmakers called on Mightybytes several years in a row to create the trailer for Reeling: The Chicago International Lesbian and Gay Film Festival. These 30-60 second trailers featured a variety of production tricks, including shooting 16mm film, digital photography, music remixing and audio production, motion graphics, and visual effects. The trailers played in theaters across Chicago as the opener to every festival screening.2004
Newark-in-One
Animated Web Tour
When Newark-in-One launched their web site's new search engine, they called on Mightybytes to create an animated tutorial outlining all of its unique aspects and key features. The project was then customized for all the company's subsidiaries, including its UK-based parent company, Farnell-in-One.2002
Newark-in-One
Initiative Video
To educate Newark Electronics (now Newark-in-One) employees on company initiatives, Mightybytes created an employee-awareness promotional video for use at an enterprise-wide meeting. Mightybytes remixed music provided to us by the client, shot blue- and green-screen video of Newark employees and products at work, and edited the whole thing down to its requisite 1:30 timeframe with our signature blend of graphics, effects and animation. The video was so well received that Newark's outside PR firm requested a copy to show their staff as an example of effective internal marketing tools at work.1999
MRO Software
Sales and Training Tool
MRO Software asked Mightybytes to create a robust multimedia tool that would provide the company's sales force with a cohesive identity for their global initiatives and product offerings. Featuring original music, animated interactivity, eye-catching graphics, and video testimonials, the tool became integral to branding product offerings at tradeshows, informal meetings and on MRO's web site.2003
Montgomery Design
DVD Authoring
Mightybytes collaborated with 3D artisan Sam Weisbard and the folks at Montgomery Design to create a DVD that would sell executives at Case on the concept of outsourcing a new tractor cab's product design to Montgomery. The DVD included a complete flythrough of the cab, slideshows of design progression, storyboards, sketches, and composites, as well as several interactive menus.2001
Mightybytes
Promotional Trailer
We created a teaser based on sci-fi culture of the 50s and 60s to announce the launch of our (then) new web site. Intended to drive traffic to the new site, this animated hat tip to the pulp style of old science fiction movie posters and the opening credits to 'Lost in Space' featured retro-style graphics and music with a modern twist. Mightybytes.com. In browsers now! Don't miss the thrill ride that critics are calling "the most stupendous collection of 1's and 0's ever assembled!"2005
McDougal Littell
Interactive Product Development
Mightybytes nurtures an ongoing relationship with McDougal Littell, collaborating with the Evanston, Illinois-based division of Houghton Mifflin Company on creative and technical projects ranging from simple animation and design production to robust interactive applications, original music, video production, and online development. Our long-term contract with the company prohibits us from posting many portfolio samples other than what you see here, but feel free to call us if you would like to further discuss the nature of our work for this award-winning educational publisher.2003
Life Fitness
Product Launch Promo
For the launch of several new products, Mightybytes designed an animated, interactive promotion for http://www.lifefitness.com. Timed with the release date of these new products, this animated music video played for users with Flash who accessed the Life Fitness home page the month the products were launched.1998
Learning Curve International
Children's Game
Danger in deep space was never so much fun as when Mightybytes created an interactive, cross-platform CD-ROM game for the well-known toy manufacturer, Learning Curve International. Packaged with a line of Learning Curve's Robotix toys, The R.A.V.E.N. Adventure comes bundled alongside a flying machine designed with three possible interstellar configurations. Increasingly difficult levels of game play reflect these configurations. The R.A.V.E.N. Adventure was recognized by Graphis Publications for outstanding interactive design and is featured in their Interactive Design Annual 1999. It was also featured on the Sci Fi Channel's technology news show, 'Cool Tech'.2000
Jim Beam
Online Games
Mightybytes partnered with DCG Chicago (now Wirestone, LLC) to create an online version of the pool game 'Nine Ball' for the Jim Beam web site. One year later, Mightybytes ventured further into the funhouse of online game development by creating 'Save the Rackhouse' for the Kentucky-based distiller as well. Based on the concept of the arcade favorite 'Space Invaders', this game uses Jim Beam branding and Flash functionality to track scores and advance players to new levels of difficulty as they increase their gaming skills. 'Save the Rackhouse' was a finalist in the Association for Multimedia Communications competition, Flashfest2001.2003
GFX International
Sales Tool
The folks at GFX International wanted a sales support solution that would outshine their competitors in ease-of-use, visual appeal, and quality of content. To meet this challenge Mightybytes created an easy-to-update presentation application that allows users to navigate anywhere within a couple mouse clicks while still maintaining the visual appeal of fluid, animated transitions, video clips, portfolio samples, sound effects, and so on.2001
Newark-in-One
Software Demo
One of Mightybytes' collaborations with Chicago-based electronics supplier and distributor Newark-in-One (formerly Newark Electronics) resulted in this full-bodied multimedia demo highlighting iTracker, a global asset management solution. Originally used for an industry trade show and then repurposed, the demo features an amalgam of voice-over, video, copy, original music, photography and custom animation that showcases Newark's browser-based software application in a concise, easy-to-understand format.2006
ExecPsych
Company Web Site
Mightybytes developed an informative and user-friendly online presence for this Chicago-based family business psychological consulting practice that outlines their service offerings, process, publications, and so on in a sleek interface. Site content outlines the firm's service offerings, their process, credentials, publications, and so on in a sleek interface and is a companion site to the President's personal site, which we also created.2003
GFX International
Driver Video
GFX International's Driver Program is an integrated solution for large-scale retail customers looking to effectively manage their graphic and digital communications. Mightybytes created a graphically-charged video outlining Driver details for GFX's booth at the GlobalShop trade show. The production entailed storyboard development, video production, shooting, compositing, animation, original music, and editing for playback on HD monitors throughout the booth.2005
Chelsea Olson
Skateboarding Video
Mightybytes created the opening titles for a seven-year old skateboarder's sponsorship video and consulted on overall production.2002-2008
Bookstream, Inc.
Author Videos
Mightybytes maintains an ongoing relationship with Bookstream Inc., a New York-based web marketing company that serves the publishing industry with rich media-enhanced online applications based on current book releases. As one of several location producers that Bookstream uses, Mightybytes shoots author interviews in our studio or onsite at various locations around the country. The taped clips are then edited down to brief snippets that can be used within a Bookwrap, one of Bookstream's primary product offerings. Authors we have interviewed to date include Scott Turow ('Ordinary Heroes', 'Presumed Innocent'), S.E. Hinton ('Hawkes Harbor', 'The Outsiders', 'Rumble Fish'), and Robert Jordan (The 'Wheel of Time' series), among others, as well as numerous writers of trade, medical and educational titles.2001
AMC
Flashfest Identity
Mightybytes created collateral and identity for the Association for Multimedia Communications' Flashfest, a competition for Chicago-area Flash designers, animators and developers. Deliverables included a promotional 'Call For Entries' postcard, all of the winning certificates for each category, and an animated promotional video set to original, fast-paced music for projected playback during the competition itself. Mightybytes received a Flashfest award nomination for our work on 'Save the Rackhouse', a Space Invaders-style game created for http://www.jimbeam.com. Our work for Flashfest was featured in an article by industry pundits ePrairie as well.2004
IHSAA
Video Titles
The Indiana High School Athletic Association and Wordsmith Productions asked Mightybytes to create titles and bumper graphics for their educational video on sportsmanship. The resulting animations maintain a grainy feel by compositing old film clips with treated contemporary photographs and video clips.SORT BY »
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