Product Details

• Actors: Ethan Summers
• Directors: Alex Alvarez
• Format: Color, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: All Regions
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rating: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: Gnomon Workshop
• DVD Release Date: April 17, 2006
• Run Time: 285 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• ASIN: B000NQRWWU
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #138,571 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Review

Ethan Summers' new title on Vue Infinite provides a rich look at his techniques of creating compelling landscapes with this unique and powerful package. Those beginning with Vue as well as seasoned artists will benefit from his techniques. --Eric Hanson - Senior Producer/VFX Designer The Gnomon Workshop

About the Actor

Ethan Summers is a multidisciplinary artist whose interests include CG environments, where he has 13 years experience for clients including NASA, Mattel, Microsoft, Electronic Arts, Hewlett Packard, Disney, Sundance Films, Viacom Interactive, Hasbro, Coca Cola and IBM. He is also a fine artist working in abstract painting and sculpted art cars. He has international work experience in Mexico, Japan and the USA. Ethan's other interests include brainstorming design concepts for intuitive software for artists and riding his bicycle whenever possible. Ethan lives in Santa Cruz, California.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Very Good Tutorial, But Not Up to Date, March 10, 2008

By	Victor Rotenberg "Victor" (Florida) - See all my reviews

The product is a great introduction to the interface of Vue which guides you through functionality of the tools. The tutorial was most useful when using the "Geeks at Play" material which can be found on the web. Geeks at Play assume that you understand the Vue interface and tend to concentrate more on how to accomplish spectacular scenery. If you aren't familiar with the tools in the Vue interface you can quickly get discouraged because the results won't be as nice. Although Geeks at Play does offer a Vue Interface tutorial I found this DVD to be more in depth in that respect.

There are two issues which were not great. The first is that the DVD was released during Vue 5 and makes references to the now permanent features of Vue 6 which were in beta at the time. EcoSystem 2 and the new Clouds are briefly mentioned but not how to use them. Similarly some of the new functions in function editor were not covered either. This was not a huge problem since the Vue 5 and Vue 6 interfaces are very similar and I bought the Vue 6 Revealed book as a supplement.

The second issue is that the media will not play on my standalone DVD player (manufactured 2006 Panasonic) connected a Television. It would only play on the PC. I found this a little awkward because I had to keep switching from the Media Player to the Vue 6 application in order to do the tutorials. To resolve this, I played this DVD on my laptop and used my desktop to work with the Vue 6 application. For those who don't have the two computer option be warned!

Overall I found the product useful and educational. I reduced the rating of the video by one star because it is dated to Vue 5 and does not cover the latest Vue 6 functionality well.

Unfortunately, there is a learning curve to Vue in order to produce the types of results that production studios achieve. After two months of working with Vue 6 Infinite I am getting much better at producing realistic scenes. As I am learning, it takes a while to learn how to get up to the quality of "Pirates of the Carribean." This product has had a significant role in achieving that goal.