Hey everyone! I'm a video editor myself, and I kept running into the same wall: needing a quick smoke, fire, or water element for a shot, and either faking it with stock footage or opening a full 3D suite just for one effect. So I spent the last few months building Elementum. It runs on GPU with a real fluid solver (not recycled clips), you paint a trigger zone directly on your footage, and it reacts live — obstacles you paint actually deflect the flow, and there's an automatic tracker that follows a point in your shot. My process evolved a lot along the way: the first versions were much slower and the obstacle painting was clunky. Getting it to feel truly real-time, so you can tune it while watching your footage instead of waiting for a render, was the whole point. Would love your feedback, especially from anyone doing VFX or motion work who's tired of switching apps for a quick effect.

Elementum

Real-time smoke, fire & water simulation for video editors

Real-time smoke, fire & water simulation for video editors