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"Sorry guys, but Vue can do things that Blender cannot do."**

*Like what?

 Uuum, like that fully realized procedural planet I was talking about? That's a planet with ambient occluded light model skies, multiple cloud layers with accurate lighting models, mountains, oceans, plants swaying in the wind, etc. That animation is a monster to set up, and you don't want to know the resources it can eat, but it works, from starry orbit to treetop to wave level. We are talking billions of instanced plants, reactive to atmospherics if you desire, good enough that the results is useable in theatrical productions.

 

I know from where the OP is coming from. I'm a writer at heart; I see figures as actors, as means to tell stories with. A resource, nothing more. I'm writing my scripts, and it is the final, finished product where -I- will shine; not in the 'Oh, I modeled that, and that, and that, and I spent 4 whole days fiddling to get that exact rust shader etc etc etc'. That isn't any kind of backhanded slap at content creators, either. Aside from the fact that too many newbies of that breed either forget, ignore, or blow off the fact that there are other arenas, with different rules and benchmarks. I had to deal with a little Max-nazi a couple of years ago; he'd spent about 6 months working on a render. It  was a sci-fi vista, something you would expect as a background shot for an Alien movie. He had reason to be proud....it was well lit and rendered, even if he did waste far too much time on the structure looming over the alien terrain (that's where a lot of his time went; in the gribble). But the ego was so swollen there wasn't air to breathe. I put up with it longer than manners dictated, then pointed out to him that at that rate, in another 14.5 years he would have all of one second of footage in the can. And suggested he =never= tell anyone he was interviewing with about it. That kind of time sink would get him escorted to the door of any production facility. From a content creator's standpoint he may have been the bee's knees. From a production standpoint he was an utter waste of space, no matter how sexy his details, because he had no concept of shortcut usage or the idea of 'good enough'. Poser and Vue aren't content creators, they are output generators. I'm not a modeler, and would much rather pay someone with those skills for content and devote my personal resources to crafting the worlds, actions, environments, characters, and situations. That's where i shine, and the credits at the end of a vid is where you let everyone know who did what. Sure, I couldn't do that without those content providers. Just like without my keyframing, that content would be standing there in a T pose, unmoving, unknowing, and without a hint of life to it. It's a synergy.