nice demo reel but

"But ya got to learn Blender first, pumeco.
Sorted, I was doing that while you were busy spending thousands on Max! "

takes a couple of mins to spend on max at least a year or so to learn blender :-(

 

ps you can do fake an ecosystem with dupliverts and weight painting (maybe not as easy as vue)

@Nyghtfall have fun, long time since I tried the demo but as I remember Vue is great