Vue Easel 6

by Smith Micro Software Inc.

Product Features

• Easily learn and enjoy the art of 3D scenery.
• Create any kind of 3D landscape, carve terrains, grow vegetation, add water and clouds.
• Get instant photorealistic results, apply natural lighting, change camera angles and more.
• Quickly make your own animated flythroughs, replicate objects to create crowds or forests.
• Includes professional titling and video effects, and ready-to-go content to start from.

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 2.4 ounces
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S. and to APO/FPO addresses. For APO/FPO shipments, please check with the manufacturer regarding warranty and support issues.
• ASIN: B000STZVU2
• Date first available at Amazon.com: June 30, 2007
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #10,705 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
  • #56 in Software > Graphics > 3-D

Product Description

Vue 6 Easel allows digital artists and hobbyists to easily create breathtaking landscapes, terrains and exhilarating 3D art. Vue is very easy to learn and fun to use, without the long learning curve and high cost of technical 3D programs, so Vue is perfect for anyone who wants to produce their own high quality 3D landscape, scenery or animation.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

17 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great software, April 24, 2008

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S. messer "S.M." (MI) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Vue Easel 6 (CD-ROM)

If your just starting to get into 3D art this is a great place to start before getting heavy into things like lightwave or cinema4D and the more advanced versions in the Vue line. I've created a lot of great stunning images in teh few months i've owned this product. There's only a few complaints i have and they really shouldn't stop anyone from buying this product.
- Purchasing add-ons like trees, houses and materials. there's tons of other items that you can use to make your scenes from the softwares website but they require being purchased. after paying nearly #100 its a bit frustrating having to spend more for little things like paint materials or waterfalls.
- Space: If you're planning on doing an extremely over the top image or something with an really high resolution your going to need to check the amount of available space on your PC.
-Resolution cap: If you'd like to make large images to put on zazzle or other websites to print on canvases for wall hangings your going to need to get a more advanced version of Vue. easel won't allow you to create a 4800 x 2560 pixel image for those needs.
- Poser: If you want to use poser to insert figures into your scenes (you can also purchase figures from the website mentioned)you'll need to do a lot of tweaking. It seems that Easel doesn't much like the hairstyles of Poser and they don't "render" smoothly. Inserting poser figures can also make the program crash.
- Lighting: is sometiems tricky to get right.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Not what I expected, February 16, 2009

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Celtic Lady - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Vue Easel 6 (CD-ROM)

I'm sure if all you want to create are beautiful scenes - this is the product for you - I wasn't given the straight scoop when I told them I wanted it to be exported to 3d for my animation programs - although Vue does do that - not this one! So, my disappointment is in eFrontier's poor advertising and lack of support. What else I don't like it that when you do want to just make a beautiful scenic picture - guess what, you have to BUY more stuff to make the picture! Even though it comes preinstalled with objects - not enough and I hate the idea I have to put with e-storefront Cornucopia (spelling wrong) everytime I want to do anything - kills the muse. Otherwise, it most certainly will create beautiful 3d "looking" pictures albeit it will not export to .3ds or .obj. You can export to .avi for the creation of a background imagery for any movie you produce.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good software, August 7, 2008

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G. Stapleton "Cityboy" (Columbus, Ohio United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Vue Easel 6 (CD-ROM)

If you want to create 3D environments quickly and easily this is the application for you. I actually purchased Easel 6 from the Vue website for half the price (two day sale). For that price it's even better. But in all honesty to get true flexibility its best to go with the total version. Like Vue Extreme.