Led by VFX Supervisor Gary Brozenich, MPC completed more than 550 shots for Disney's The Lone Ranger.
Shots range from full CG canyons, caves and Comanche attacks to CG trains, horses, birds, arrows, fire and scorpions. Music "Dragon Master" Composed by Phil Rey.
Blender 5.3 (November 2026) adds photogrammetry-to-render Gaussian Splat pipelines, NVIDIA DLSS denoising for viewport iteration, and shareable asset libraries. Production studios should stay on 5.2 LTS for stability.
V-Ray 7.5 ships with integrated AI tools that automate HDRI matching and asset selection, score render quality, and add native volumetric workflows. For 3ds Max archviz artists, the practical gains are clearest in volumetric support - but AI recommendations only help if they match your scene's intent.
Corona 16 adds GPU-accelerated Gaussian Splat relighting and a new Parallax Interiors system that renders furnished rooms behind windows using flat geometry, cutting memory overhead for multifamily and tower facades. New AI Assistant beta helps with mood matching and scattering.
A new Windows tool reads native .max files and rebuilds V-Ray and Corona materials for target renderers, letting multi-software studios skip re-setup work.
Epic Games has made the full 23,000-asset Megascans library free on Fab indefinitely as of November 5, 2026, with refunds for 2025 purchases and new AI training rights. The Fab Standard License covers any game engine or tool without renderer lock-in.
Claude Opus 5.5, released September 22, cuts API costs by 40% and speeds output by 30%, making AI-driven scene assembly in Blender more practical for solo artists. The model excels at staging, lighting and rig fixes but not production mesh generation.
Chaos shipped V-Ray 7 Update 5 on November 5-6 with 30+ features including an embedded AI Assistant, Cosmos AI asset generation, and MCP server connections to ChatGPT and Claude. 3ds Max users face delays while Rhino and SketchUp gain immediate native AI access.
Corona 16 adds GPU-accelerated Gaussian Splat relighting and a new Parallax Interiors system that renders furnished rooms behind windows using flat geometry, cutting memory overhead for multifamily and tower facades. New AI Assistant beta helps with mood matching and scattering.
In this walkthrough, we guide you through the process of building a polished 3D interior scene inspired by the cover of Archmodels vol. 306 – Table Sets.
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