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China-based MadCats FX has posted a video of a nice whirlpool simulation created with Houdini. Watch it on Vimeo.

Sony Pictures' senior FX TD Ruben Mayor has put together a new reel. Watch it on Vimeo.

Texas-based Tiltpixel architectural visualization studio has posted online its latest reel. Watch it on Vimeo.

A great CG timelapse sequence was created by a team of artists from Blizzard Entertainment for StarCraft II: Legacy of the Void, an expansion pack to the SciFi strategy game StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty. The sequence was created using Vue, 3DS Max and V-Ray, among other tools. Watch it on Vimeo.

Formlabs and Pixologic are collaborating to develop a software integration that will take a model from ZBrush and transfer it to Formlabs' Preform software, to set it up and print it on a Formlabs 3D printer. The new functionality will be released in early 2016 as a feature within ZBrush. More on Formlabs' and Pixologic's sites.

VFX / generalist Jefferson Lim has made available a reel with a compilation of some of his VFX work from the last couple of years. Created with 3DS Max, Houdini, Nuke, RealFlow and assorted plugins, including FumeFX, Krakatoa and V-Ray. Watch the reel on Vimeo.

Canada-based Thought Café has created a Solar System 360° tour using Mettle's SkyBox plugin for AE. Watch the video on YouTube.

Japan-based Marza Animation Planet has posted online its latest reel. Watch it on YouTube.

SUbD is an extension for SketchUp developed by Trimble's software engineer Thomas Thomassen that implements Catmull-Clark based parametric subdivision in SketchUp, complete with control for creasing. More on the author's website.

Melbourne-based artist Pablander has generously released another free resource for ZBrush: the Multi-Eye shader is a single ZBrush material that helps you create a variety of eyes for your projects quickly, with just a few tweaks. A short PDF guide is included that shows how to tweak the properties of the material and a couple of useful tricks. More on Selz.com.