Next Technologies, the folks behind RealFlow, have just announced the “RealFlow Render Kit” (RFRK).

The RealFlow RenderKit is a set of tools that has been designed to facilitate the complex task of rendering RealFlow™ fluids. The RFRK enables you to generate procedural geometry at render time, and also render individual fluid particles. As a result, the RFRK will dramatically simplify and accelerate your RealFlow™ workflow.

Used by the guys behind The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, it allows you to directly manipulate and render the particles in RenderMan & Mental Ray, without having to convert your RealFlow simulation to a mesh first.  A definite timesaver, to be sure.

via RealFlow RenderKit.