Amazing amount of creative power! You will need a mordern system with 2GB ram (Vue 5i comes with 5 "RenderCows" to make your own render farm, if you have some older machines around). I just do static scenes and the largest number of technical complaints come from the animaters - still you saw the promo reels and those were done by a user, not by an e-on employee or big pro animation firm. Of course we are all in awe of his work. I love the Vue 5i rendering and lighting and the amazing amount of control - especially when you get into the Function Editor (visually driven interactive graphics scripting with writing any code!). And the new Procedural Terrain tutorial ($20 at Cornucopia 3D store) shows how to build really awesome rocks and terrains. But don't expect to model much in Vue and it is not as stable as some apps, at least for some people. I don't have many problems, but i'm a PC consultant and know how to keep my machine in shape.