Thanks mirek03

The perspective is just the camera set up - focal length 10 mm.

I finally figured out what made Maya crash all the time. Actually it's pretty dumb on my part. It was the size of the fluid mesh. At the peak the mesh file was 100 MB big and the poly had more than 3 million faces. Maya ran into memory problems, hitting the hard limit of 1.6 GB. :blush:

Anyway, I reduced the resolution of the fluid mesh to 40 % of what I had and now the entire animation completes :attn:

Still some more days left to make the composition and the final render. Should be doable :bandit: