Does anyone else really miss this feature in ultra fractal? Wouldn't it be great to have an animation tab where you can place keyframes and have the program render an animation with gradual changes from start to finish, including zoom, pan and valuechanges? I would love to see some fractal-animations in the gallery.

Frederik Slijkerman announced that he was planning on adding powerful animation features to UltraFractal 4, which I think he intends to release next year. I am not convinced that you will be able to make an animation of any interest in 512K or less. :(

Attached Link: http://www.josleys.com/

Jos Leys made many animations. Visit his webpage to take a look. He used UF and a freeware program, named JPGanimator from Stig Christensens. Here is the URL for downloading it: http://www.stigc.dk/java.asp. Webpage is in the Danish language! All the best.

Attached Link: http://www.fractal-recursions.com

I wrote an animation program that operates on UF UPR files. It works using key frames and fills in the intermediate frames. I assume the new UF will operate this way. And tresamie is right; you are looking at 10s of megabytes for 320x240 (mpeg-1) and 100s of megabyte for 720x480 (dvd or mpeg-2) animation for run times of 2-4 minutes. Render time is from 1-15 minutes per frame depending on size and layers, etc; 30 fps is the usual rate, so you are looking at a long time to render an animation. I had some that ran for 5 weeks. But UF doesn't mind being interrupted so managing this process isn't so bad. Takes patience though. Follow the link to see a few of the animations I have made.