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Ken LaRue
 
Ken teaching Combustion at Siggraph

The Street Productions is a company owned and operated by Ken LaRue. Ken LaRue has been in the graphics industry for the past 24 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 this company The Street Productions, Inc. While The Street Productions continues to offer consulting, training and services in video, 3d animation, web and graphic design. The Street Productions main focus today is helping Combustion and Toxik user learn how to use these amazing program.

In 2003 he also became 1 of only 7 Combustion DTS (Discreet Training Specialist) in the world. He has worked as a Combustion, Toxik, Maya Composite and Flame demo artist for Autodesk at trade show such as NAB, Siggraph, Mac World and DV Expo. In 2004 he was hired as a full time employee by Autodesk as the Compositing Application Specialist and today still works full time for Autodesk traveling all over the world training and demonstrating Combustion, Toxik, Maya Composite and Flame.

Ken has taught Combustion, Toxik and Maya Composite at companies such as Disney Animations, DreamWorks, EA (Electronic Arts) and CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation). He has also taught compositing and special effect classes at De Paul University in Chicago, IL. and at several Autodesk training centers.

He has written articles and tutorial on using Combustion for print and online magazines such as Studio Magazine and Creative Cow. He is also a forum leader at the Creative Cow Combustion and Toxik online forum.