About me

potent potablesAs a young lad I attended LSU (1988) with every intention of becoming a Designer and an Architect, but a call from high school friends at the U of A brought me to Fayetteville, AR to play in a rock band (BE). I began working as a freelance designer / developer in Fayetteville in the early 90’s to support and enhance a career in music, while intermittently attending the University of Arkansas.

After I graduated with a degree in Computer Science from the University, I accepted a job as lead project producer/designer for Arkansas Center for Technology Transfer (ACTT). This led me to a position as a Creative Design Specialist at Acxiom Corporation based out of Little Rock (titles?). I built many trusted relationships with clients and colleagues during my tour at Acxiom, and at the end of my fifth year there, I was approached by Stoneward agency with the opportunity to be their Senior Technical Designer / Content Specialist. After two years at Stoneward, I went to work with local designer and animator John Jacobs at Atomic Tomato / Waymack and Crew. Now I am here at CJRW.

So if you can get through all of that, I design things, program things, come up with concepts, create and implement interface solutions, figure things out, and hopefully have a good time doing it, and doing it right.

Here is my work resume.

"In anything at all, perfection is finally attained not when there is no longer anything to add, but when there is no longer anything to take away, when a body has been stripped down to its nakedness." - Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Thanks, Duke

Kyoto Boom

I am in a new band. Yes indeeed. We are called Kyoto Boom, and of course it is badass. http://www.myspace.com/kyotoboom.

What's Going On.

I am trying to piece together a portfolio that is representative of my work, and it's pretty hard. It seems that everything I revisit, I wish were better. ...It's rare that you find that sweet spot. ...that perfect gig that allows you to really rock out your skills and be technically, visually, and conceptually superior, but I am looking for it. But now that I finally (2006!) reserved a domain, and I have a place to put digital-things, I will try and put new and interesting doo dads up here. This is turning out to sound like a disclaimer, and in a way it is. It's just that this is in no way a comprehensive portfolio of "what I do;" It's just what I found on my computer. I have gone through so many computers and life stages and moves that often times things just get lost in the wash.

Misha: "Duke do you still need this old stack of CDs? They are taking up room in my file cabinet."
Duke: "I don't care, chuck 'em." ...oops

A whole lot of software that I developed over the years was for very security-concious clients, so I can't really put it up here on public display, otherwise I'd have a lot more examples. Check out some of my work over there on the right. Some of the stuff was designed by graphic designers, and implemented by me, some things I did start to finish, and some are just doodles or tests.

Good Times

Here is my wife Misha; she's fun. We like to cook and dance and have cocktails on the front porch with our many friends. I should just open a bar or something. We are both from Louisiana; she's from the north,and I'm from the double south part. Check it out.

phoI love Thai food, and Vietnamese food, and Sushi, and I think I could eat those in constant rotation everyday, but no one else will. ...except for maybe Wade.

My main hobby is sport motorcycle riding, and I love to hit the Arkansas roads on my 2002 Honda Interceptor. It's the best bike ever. Trust me. Lately, I have been slacking off because some people decided to steal my riding buddy Allen's motorcycle. ...pissed. Update: He got's himself a new one, cher.

BE

I used to be a professional drummer in a rock band called BE, based out of Fayetteville, AR and Dallas, TX. You can always find interesting things about that right here.

BE

Update: I've been digging around, and I found all kinds of old BE stuff that I built and designed over the years. It's pretty interesting.... to me! And now... the archive:

BE songs to download:

Testify!

So I asked my colleagues and clients to write a brief testimonial about me. I did not make these up. Really. I am humbled and moved...

"By far one of the most talented people I have ever worked with. There are no limits to his creativity." - Becky Dockins, Event Manager/Video Production, Acxiom Corporation

"I have been amazed to find that God has created a renaissance man for our times. Duke has been both a creative and analytical power house during many of the projects that I have had the honor to work on with him. He challenges both himself and his colleagues to redefine the purpose of each project he works on, so that it's potential can be realized." - Timothy Hicks, Multimedia Designer/Developer, Stone Ward

"Of all the people I have worked with throughout my 16 years in advertising, Duke Boyne is one of them." - Danny Koteras, Associate Creative Director, Stone Ward World Headquarters

"I can honestly say that in 15 years of knowing and working with Duke, I have never met a more passionate and creative person with regards to any process or endeavor. Set him loose, and your project will soar." - Kyle Gibson, Director of Business Development, Clear Channel of Northwest Arkansas

"Some things I know about Duke Boyne: Duke is a praying mantis on the tennis court. Tenacious behind the stick of a radio helicopter. A bottle rocket when strapped into a pair of running shoes. A champagne bottle of energy and enthusiasm. A green party candidate of eternal optimism. A tug boat in the harbor of hard work. The third Wright Brother of creativity and innovation. Can beat you every time with Oscar De La Hoya even if you are Jake Lamotta. Mixes a drink with the precision of a scientist and the bravado of a matador. Is not afraid to suck the head of the mightiest of crawfish. And doesn't care if you think he dances like a 14 year old girl." - David Raymond, Bank Financial Examiner, Arkansas State Bank Department

"Duke is one of those rare individuals that combines engineering ability with artistic intent. He strives to make each project unique and the best it could be, often creating interface elements that have never existed before, extending far beyond the initial request. Not only that, but unlike most of us, he paid attention in math & physics classes and relies heavily on advanced mathematical techniques to bring his creations to life." - Andy Griebel, OEM Account Manager, StrongMail Systems

Excuse me, now I have to go and buy all of these people dinner.

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OK, I'm back

So apart from a slight obsession with XBOX 360, that's me.

Links to useful places that I visit

Portfolio

Games

Band names
Band names into the space.
Thunderpucks
Fun, fun, fun, with hovercrafts. I always wanted that hovercraft that you could build in "Popular Mechanics." Never could find a spare lawnmower engine... Flash is so wild, this thing is 9kb!
Derby Daze
This is what Thunderpucks was the prototype for. I did all of the development and physics. TribalDDB in Dallas did the art and the game mechanics.
Cookiepussteroids (Carvel)
Graphic designers and copywriters come up with the wackiest ideas! Let's make a game where this ice cream based mascot flies his spacecraft around and shoots ice cream sundaes in space. You can do it! ...makes no sense. But I did it, and somehow I infused the sprinkle cannon with the visceral punch of a Vietnam-era copter-mounted mini gun. P.S. It's for kids so it's easy... duh. http://www.carvel.com/games.asp
Ice Cream Falls (Carvel)
...or ice cream falls into the sea unless you catch it with... wait for it... a whale shaped cake made of ice cream. It must be the dope.
Sack Race (Barton's)
This is a recent addition. I was charged with creating a sack race / trivia game for an internal corporate contest. I am happy with the result. It's got a dynamic camera that follows the race, and it's a simple one-button interface. The trivia questions are complete sillyness that I made up as placeholders. I broke out the quiz content as an external XML document, so that the client could modify the quiz questions and answers right up until the end, without having to touch the presentation layer.

Web Sites

Midtowne Little Rock
I designed and built this site. Pure CSS and semantic markup. No cheating. I like it.
Dero
Dero is a photographer, and he wanted a Flash site. I didn't want him to have to contact me every time there was a change. So I created this site that allows him to put photos in subdirectories and sub-subdirectories. The menus are dynamically built based on those directory names, and the thumbnails and content are generated at runtime. So all he has to do is create a folder, name it, and put images in it, and the Flash is automatically generated. My friend wade Austin did the PHP that reads the directories on the server, and reports them to me for manipulation and display.
Waymack Media Scatter
This actual site is no longer up, so this is an abbreviated version that I pieced together. Rigid body dynamics. Interactive video. Cool sorting. Physics. Dynamic adaptive "play area." It's got it all.
Donald Roller Wilson (2000)
I did this many years ago, when I was just starting Flash. It's a little rough, but showed promise. A little flashy, and driven totally by Roller, who is a mad genius.
Smokin' Ribs in the Rock
CSS design by me. Flash particle system as a "smoke generator" for the logo.
Rebecca Harrison Designs (jewelers loop)
I am designing and building this site for a friend using CSS and semantic markup, but I decided to break out, and build this Flash based image viewer that is externally driven by XML.

Microsites

Million Pound Challenge (TCBY)
This is a bit contraptionairy for basically displaying some text, but it was a fun challenge. Here are the tests.
Home eXposed (Terminix)
This is a bit contraptionairy for basically displaying some text, but it was a fun challenge. See the pattern. We did a full blown TV shoot, complete with craft services. I ate beef jerky and donuts and fried chicken. And we used a few seconds of actual video. Wild.
Interactive Invitation
I already had the 3d engine built. You can click and drag onscreen to move around.
Rich Media Group
Very similar to above. ...but it rotates.
Danny's Birthday Invitation
Oh my, this is really retarded. I just found it on my computer. It's something I did a while back, but it made me smile.

Demos

Multi-variate data display
This is a custom data display that runs off an XML data source. It shows how various groups of people morph into other groups of people.. or is it morph into space robots? I don't know.

Experiments

3d Gravity
Sometimes little tests end up being unbelievably cool. This is like an executive desk toy on crack that I can somehow play with forever.
3d Matrix 1, 2
This is sort of test for some of the things you may have seen earlier.
2d Particle
Is what it is...
Wall Space Calculator
Here is a tiny app that I wrote to calculate the wall space for a basic rectangular room. It was a quick addition to an RFP, so I think I will eventually get to revisit it and finish it out with some more advanced features.
Dynamic Abstract
I have this friend, Toma Miller, who is this really great artist, but sometimes he just quits painting. So I decided to write an application that copied his intentionally primitive, Basquiat-type painting style. It was a real challenge to make a computer draw like a human... with intention but flawed execution. Here are some initial tests. Drawing test.
Lindenmayer Fractal
This is a component that I plan on adding to my Dynamic Abstract art project (above) as a graphic generator and a placement generator.
Panorama
Trying motion blur before you could put motion blur filters in Flash.
Digilabel
This ended up being a sort of overused effect, but I wanted to make it programmatically instead of a canned animation.
Local Connect
Two flash movies talking to each other in that weird language that only twins understand.
Motion Blur Test
How many motion blurs can you handle?
MP3 Player
XML based mp3 player that loads external MP3 files, and diplays their id3 tags.
Multi-channel mixer/looper
There is currently no actual way to synch or embed multi-channel audio in Flash (as far as I know), so you have to fake it a bit.
Helicopter
I got the physics all wrong, so eventually I will have to go back to the drawing board. I just really love the Huey Cobra.
Bullshit
Have you ever been in one of those meetings where people just start using techno-babble and corporate cliches, and it starts to sound like a Star Trek episode? Well now you can turn it into a fun bingo game; if you get a full row, you have to stand up and yell "Bullshit!" Embarrassing, but necessary.
Forza Tuner Test
Bare bones baseline tuner for Forza2