| Meet Ken Larue, Creativecow.net leader
Creative COW Forum Host, Web Writer, Contributing Editor
Ken La Rue has been in the computer graphics industry for the past 25 years. He was the Art
Director for an advertising company in Chicago named Don Craig Design 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. which offered consulting,
training and services in video editing, compositing, 3D animation and graphic design. He also
continued to create training DVDs for Combustion.
2003 he became a Combustion DTS (Discreet Training Specialist). He worked as a contractor
as a Combustion demo artist for Autodesk at trade show such as NAB, Siggraph and DVExpo.
Ken has taught compositing and special effect classes at DePaul University in Chicago, IL and a
variety of Autodesk resellers and training centers around the world.
In 2004 he became a full time employee for Autodesk as Combustion Application Engineer.
Over the years Ken has been an Application Engineer for Autodesk focusing on Flame, Smoke
and Toxix/Composite. His responsibilities were to train and support clients using Autodesk
compositing software. He also worked as a special consultant at companies such as Disney
Animation Studio in Burbank and EA Game in Vancouver. In 2011 Ken took the role of Autodesk
Smoke Technical Marketing Manager.
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.
You can find Ken LaRue hosting in Creative COW's Autodesk Smoke 2013, Autodesk Toxik, Autodesk Combustion, and Autodesk Smoke Forums.
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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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