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.

Seoul-based 4th Creative Party have posted a video showing VFX work they did for Choi Dong-hoon's "Assassination" film. Watch it on Vimeo.

Italian VFX artist Alessandro Nardini has put together a video with a small collection of explosions he created with FumeFX 4, using some of the fluid dynamics software's new features. Alessandro had made a similar video using an earlier version of FumeFX five years ago. Watch the new video on Vimeo.

Simon Holmedal has posted a video comparing some of the similarities and differences between Houdini to Cinema 4D. Watch it on Vimeo.

Bottleship have posted their latest reel featuring some really nice dynamic and fluid sims. Watch it on Vimeo.