The way I see it, the 'attitude' in the book (and what brought up the subject) is more about how the resulting image is what counts, not which application was used to create it.

It is a reminder that 3D software are tools - that it is with experience and skill that the author of an image knows what tool to use, what technique and sometimes, what shortcut to take to get the result he/she wants without too much aggravation.

For example, if you want a dramatic sky in a Vue scene, you can either take a photograph of a real dramatic sky and integrate it in the background, or spend time tweaking and rendering a spectral sky that fits the scene in your mind. In the end, viewers if your image will not care what you did - they will only care about the result, the picture.

• agiel - www.linfa.net