Larry Mitchell has been working as a digital media artist and producer for the past 20 years, and has created graphics and software for TV shows, arenas, video games, and commercials. He has taught and lectured on computer animation at international conferences and at various colleges and high schools, including Orlando College, Valencia Community College, Lyman High School, Tokyo Institute of Technology, and KEIO University. He has also used his animation expertise at Top Gun Entertainment and Panasonic (Osaka, Japan), and as CEO of Liquid Digital Dream Studios. Larry is now the CEO of Liquid Digital Entertainment (http://ld-e.com/ent).

Besides being a Vue 6 beta tester, Larry is also the author of the Lynda.com Vue 6 Essential Training title. He will demonstrate how to create volumetric clouds, eco systems with hundreds of millions of polygons, trees that can be blown in the wind and fully controllable atmospheres. This will all be part of the workflow demo as he shows how to build a realistic outdoor 3D environment.