PL Studios Instructs in Graphic Design

PL Studios Instructs in Graphic Design
Tucked away in an unassuming office complex in Oklahoma City is one of Oklahoma's best-kept secrets.

PL Studios makes interactive tutorials for graphic design and visual media programs such as Maya, which creates 3-D effects and animation and was used in the "Lord of the Rings" movies. The offices recently were moved to Oklahoma City from Tonkawa. The company competes with only a handful of similar companies worldwide.

"What we do is the best-kept secret in Oklahoma," said Piyush Patel, president of PL Studios. "We have shipped to Volvo in Sweden, to Disney, to Nickelodeon. We're training the next generation of artists."

While Digital Tutors provides programs to companies to train employees, they have seen a growth in amateur customers, said Tatyana Golubeva, interactive technologies director for PL Studios.

"It's surprising how fast it's grown in two years of business," Golubeva said. "People want to learn how to make special effects and the software has gotten a lot cheaper. We have lots of teenage customers that want to know how to make a monster."

Digital Tutors can teach artists not only how to create digital monsters, but how to add fur to those monsters, clothe those monsters or even explode monsters. The company that makes Maya and other software has recently produced software to create fur, fluids a