About DigitalDoyle

Welcome!

I’m Doyle Calvert and, yes, this IS a blatant attempt at self-promotion to help expand and build my freelance business. It’s my way of exposing and illuminating whatever usefulness, experience, and skill I may possess in the hopes of connecting with those in need of said usefulness.

Here you’ll find a wide variety of posts, both professional and personal, on a wide number of subjects and topics from motion graphics to nanotechnology. Hopefully you’ll find value in at least some of them. If you don’t have a use for my services and skills, but like what you see and hear and know someone who might, I would greatly appreciate a referral pointing them my way. Thanks in advance!

The bulk of my business is in interactive multimedia content development, motion graphics design/production, and video/audio production using Flash, After Effects, Premiere Pro, and the rest of the amazing tools in the Adobe Production Premium suite. You can see examples of my work and my client list at my portfolio site. It’s been a long time since I’ve updated the site and I’ll be replacing it with a newly updated one shortly.

I have recently expanded my skill set to include WordPress development, which is a very nice addition to the tools in my skill set toolbox. I very highly recommend the outstanding Thesis framework/theme as the foundation for any WordPress development. Chris Pearson has done an amazing job with this framework. The bottom line biggest benefit to using Thesis is that you no longer have to re-invent the wheel every time you build a website. And it’s a joy to use.

Hey all you Designers out there!

If you’re a designer looking to make your brilliant static designs move in exciting and eye-catching ways for your clients, I would love the chance to work with you. I’m interested in building mutually beneficial relationships with amazing designers and creatives.

The Power of Moving Images and Sound

Need your corporate message shot and edited together with product shots, 2D and 3D motion graphics, text and music? Can do.  We have Canon XHA1 HD cameras, professional Lowell lighting, and digital audio equipment and know how to use it.

Reach Out and Touch Someone

Got a tradeshow that could use a video wall or interactive touch screens to draw attendees in and engage and inform them about your product or service? We can definitely help. We’ve done tons of touch screen kiosks and video walls.

Impart Knowledge and Skill

Need to train your employees or associates? Let us help you design, develop, and deploy powerful, effective interactive training that sticks, using engaging graphics, animation, text, and audio. Training that also tests and evaluates the trainees and proves its effectiveness.

Make Real The Visions In Your Head

Need a product design visualized and brought to life? Nothing communicates and persuades as well as high quality 3D animation and graphics. We can bring to life anything from a rough sketch on a napkin to fully blue-printed designs. And soon we’ll be offering 3D rapid prototyping services using 3D ABS plastic printers capable of incredibly accurate detail.

Background Info

DigitalDoyle is the name of my studio and freelance business. I am, among many other things, an interactive multimedia producer and have been in the business professionally since 1988. Yep. Since the dawn of modern digital multimedia.

Tools In The Toolbox

My primary tool suite these days is Adobe Production Studio Premium CS4 (Flash, After Effects, Premiere Pro, Photoshop, Illustrator, SoundBooth, and Encore). The power of this outstanding suite of tools is incredible. They allow me to visualize and make real anything I can imagine. I also use Adobe Premium Design CS4’s Dreamweaver and Fireworks for web development. Never in history has so much power been directly available to individual artists and communicators. I hope to demonstrate and share some of what’s possible here in this blog.

I’ve been using Adobe, (and before its absorbtion into Adobe, Macromedia’s), tools since their very beginnings.  I also use Lightwave 3D for 3D graphics and animation (from the time you could only get it on the Video Toaster on a tricked out Amiga), Cubase for audio and music production (since the mid-90s), and many many more digital tools along the way.

I do most of my programming  in AS3, but still have clients that  need and request AS2. I also speak Javascript (very similar to AS), and Lingo (from the Macromedia Director days), and lately I’m discovering just how many similarities there are between AS and PHP, and the power of combining the two. Imagination is the only boundry.

I have extensive and wide-ranging experience in everything from web content production and coding, to interactive touch screen applications, to HD/SD video shooting, lighting, audio, compositing, and encoding for all delivery mediums, web to BlueRay DVD.

I hand-build and service all my workstations and servers from scratch, (except for my Macs and laptops), and do all my own IT chores to keep things up and running smoothly.

I’ve taught courses in a number of the software packages I use, and have spoken on digital interactive topics at seminars and user’s groups.  I am constantly climbing any number of learning curves, seeking always to increase my usefulness. It is impossible to know everything about everything, though it is quite possible to know a great deal about a great many things. It just takes a little effort and a lot of passion.

I also do product design and sculpture and in a former life attained the level of Master Craftsman in the executive aircraft completions business where I designed and fabricated interiors for some of the most exotic and beautiful royal and executive aircraft (jets and helicopters) in the world. A dedication to producing the highest quality and craftsmanship possible has carried over from that experience and permeates everything I do.

And FINALLY!

Explore the site and be sure to join in and leave comments when you can. I’d love to hear from you. If you’ve got a question, I’ll do my best to answer it. If you’ve got mutual interests, I’d be honored to be included on your blogroll, and to include you on mine. Just ask.

Thanks, and enjoy the site!

Doyle