Great software 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.