One clarification about ecosystems.

As I understand, Vue 6 Esprit will be able to use and render ecosystem materials.
You will need the new Ecosystem plugin as part of Pro Studio to create ecosystems (or get Vue Infinite).

Louis - how people value art is a very finicky thing.

In my mind, what matters is the end result - the picture. This is what counts as art for me. Not how easy it was to create this tree or that house. The rest is technical skills or crafstmanship (which also counts as part of the art but not as much as how the final result impacts you - the viewer).

As an illustrator, I appreciate not having to spend hours tweaking dozens of parameters to create a tree. If I want a tree, I place a tree in the scene and Vue does most of the random work for me. I can decide this tree is not good and generate another one. It allows me to focus on the content, the story in the picture and not how to make a particular item.

Same with photography - it took years to accept photography as Art. After all, you are not actually painting anything in that image. You don't have to be an accomplished painter to take a picture of a sky or trees, but you still need to be an artist to take the right picture, even if you did not create the objects you are using in that picture.

I see the vocation of Vue, Carrara and other approachable 3D tools as 'democratizing' 3D images, make them easier to create so that people can go back at creating artistic imagery and not just displays of skills.

• agiel - www.linfa.net