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Elementum
Real-time smoke, fire & water simulation for video editors
Elementum brings real fluid physics to video editors without the overhead of a full 3D pipeline. Paint a trigger zone directly on your footage, tune smoke, fire and water live, and export - no rendering wait, no recycled stock clips. It runs on GPU with a real fluid solver, obstacles you paint actually deflect the flow, and an automatic tracker follows a point in your shot.
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.
About Elementum on Product Hunt
“Real-time smoke, fire & water simulation for video editors”
Elementum was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 2 upvotes and 1 comments, placing #155 on the daily leaderboard. Elementum brings real fluid physics to video editors without the overhead of a full 3D pipeline. Paint a trigger zone directly on your footage, tune smoke, fire and water live, and export - no rendering wait, no recycled stock clips. It runs on GPU with a real fluid solver, obstacles you paint actually deflect the flow, and an automatic tracker follows a point in your shot.
On the analytics side, Elementum competes within Graphics & Design, Photo & Video and Animation — topics that collectively have 8.8k followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how Elementum performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted Elementum?
Elementum was hunted by Angelo Smestad. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
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