Vue 5 Easel is a stripped-down version of Vue d'Esprit, a 3D  landscape/scenery generation tool. Easel offers much of the base functionality of the full version of Vue but has extremely limited animation  capabilities (flythroughs only) and far fewer rendering options. Here is the bottom line of the review:  "Despite the inherent limitations of a product designed to be entry-level, I do find Vue 5 Easel useful in many respects. The most important of these is that I can create complex landscapes quickly and with a minimum of fuss, whereas I couldn't imagine the time that would be involved when trying to create these scenes in any general 3D  program. It has a little wonkiness to it in terms of stability, and the render times can be very, very bad in specific circumstances. But overall, it does what it sets out to do: It gives graphic artists a simple but deep tool for creating rich 3D  environments. And it does it at a reasonable price ($89 for the full version)." I have very limited experience with 3D and these types of software."