"It should be kept in mind though that a free program like Bryce will attract a lot more hobbiests and experimenters where as Vue, with it's higher price, would attract more professionals and semi-professionals."

Actually the point I was making here is that with Bryce's low barrior to entry a lot of users may just play around with it that have no desire to improve their skills. It kind of pollutes  the waters with low quality Bryce artwork (not that people don't have right to produce low quality artwork).

I just recently came across this most excellent artist KuzMich who uses both Bryce and Vue. Seems obvious that in the hands of a talented creater either program can get great results. I still lean slightly towards Vue in that the renders have a certain quality that I like. The final art still doesn't speak to the overall ease or difficulty of achieving the final output though.

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