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 and Flame demo artist for Autiodesk 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 Combustion Application Specialist and now travels all over the U.S. and Canada training and demonstrating Combustion, Toxik and Flame.

Ken has taught compositing and special effect classes using Combustion at DePaul University in Chicago, IL, at several Discreet training centers plus at companies such as EA (Electronic Arts) and CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation)
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 online forum.

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.