[J. Israelsson]

... I guess a little competition for the NextLimit people.

http://www.exoticmatter.com/

Interview with the creators:
http://media.fxguide.com/fxguidetv/fxguidetv-ep062.mov

Regards,

Johan Israelsson

[Hervé]

does not look too bad... but I guess this is a high-end app....

That sequence got my attention though.. pretty cool...

[J. Israelsson]

Yes, it certainly is a very high-end app. In the interview the creators made several referals to the Renderman platform. If you look at their website it is only for linux and Mac OS X as of now and you seem to have to build the user interface yourself from the open source code. But I really like their seemingly professional approach.

Regards,

Johan Israelsson

[numerobis]

Naiad

[-Adrian]

Interesting, i like the node setup. Thanks for sharing.

[sandykoufax]

Interesting. the demo on fxguideTV looks very nice.
And it looks something vey scientific, hehe.
Similar to XFlow ?

[Hervé]

but I am sure the price will be high-end too...

[sandykoufax]

Somebody remember this tool?

http://www.fxguide.com/article606.html

Very interesting articles.

Avatar won Best single visual effect of the year at the VES for the Neyteri "leaf drinking shot" - central to that was the new Naiad fluid tool.

[sandykoufax]

For someone who is interested in this,

According to their site, they will launch it soon.

http://www.exoticmatter.com/

By doing this, you will be on our "preferred list" to receive a free, 30-day trial version of Naiad before our official launch to the general public (planned sometime during the fall of 2010).

You can see the demo video.
http://www.exoticmatter.com/storage/NaiadWEB.mov

[Burkhard]

but I am sure the price will be high-end too...

Price

The actual pricing is not released yet but as a rough guide, "a single-user on an annual usage basis will be in the thousands of Euros, not tens of thousands and also not in the hundreds," explained Nordenstam. Exotic Matter is also exploring having a simple constant licensing model on an annual fee. Since the market for Naiad is much like the model of Renderman. It could be expanded and integrated with its API but it could also be used by a specialist, such as a more single-user TD.

[Aniki]

nobody here using Realflow 5 ?;)

I do and think, it can achieve the same.

cheers

Aniki

[Bubbaloo]

That's a beautiful demo.

(I agree RF5 can do it too.)

[tom]

nobody here using Realflow 5 ?;)
I do and think, it can achieve the same.
cheers
Aniki

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5bpyaF2tvY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PtyrzUxL ... re=related

[Aniki]

I specifically meant this kind of techdemo, like using Hybrido, with displacement map and foam. Question is, will it be as fast as those 3 minutes per frame they claim it needed in naiad

I'll stick with RF5, especially as Naiad is Linux/OSX based...

cheers

Aniki