Meet Ken Larue, Creativecow.net leader


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Ken LaRue
www.thestreetproductions.com
Chicago, Illinois USA

Ken La Rue has been in the computer graphics industry for the past 20 years. He was the Art Director for an advertising company in Chicago for 13 years before jumping into the video and motion graphic industry in 1998. He was the Creative Director for Technical Animations and Video were besides his production of video projects for clients in the corporate world he also wrote, produced and presented training videos and DVDs for both combustion and 3ds max.

In 2003 he started his own company The Street Productions, Inc. His company offers consulting, training and services in video, 3d animation, web and graphic design.

In 2003 he also became 1 of only 7 combustion DTS (Discreet Training Specialist) in the world. He worked as a combustion demo artist for Discreet at trade show such as NAB, Siggraph and DVExpo. In 2004 he was hired as a full time employee by Discreet as combustion Application Engineer covering the Midwest and Eastern region for the U.S. and Canada.

Besides using combustion and 3ds max for production Ken has also taught compositing and special effect classes using combustion at DePaul University in Chicago, IL and a variety of Discreet resellers and training centers.
His company The Street Productions creates and sells training DVDs for the combustion user and has several new training DVDs in the works.

His artist abilities go beyond the computer; he also loves to paint and has created paintings and murals for commercial and residential clients in the Chicago area.

Visit his website at http://www.thestreetproductions.com

You can find Ken LaRue hosting in Creative COW's Autodesk Combustion forum.

Articles by Ken LaRue

Autodesk Combustion

Combustion 4, a first look by Ken LaRue

Creative Cow's Ken LaRue explores the just announced Discreet combustion 4. Packed with many new features that Ken enthusiastically describes as ''Hot!'' and which include quite a number that many users have had on their own personal wish lists, C4 is drawing a lot of attention and discussion here in the Creative Cow forums. In this article, Ken helps us explore many of the reasons why...

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