Hello!

I am not new o this wonderful world of Fractals...but I really do not understand how to get them animated.
     -I have a DeviantArt account.         http://minimaster184.deviantart.com         Check it out.  Told ya I wasn't a newb.

I've been looking around EVERYWHERE for tips or hints or something to give me insight.

I have seriously found nothing.

Some places, you have to buy a program to get it to work.
I'm not doing that.

Some other places have people mentioning that they created a script (which is what I was looking for), but no where does it say how they wrote the script.
I just need...specific instructions.
I understand that it might take a long time to explain things like this...but usually I get things on the first try.

Just PLEASE!
I need help with this!
I'm gonna go insane

Here are the steps involved which are the simplest to understand, and will work with any fractal generator:
  1.  Render an image and save it in a common graphic file format.
  2.  Make a slight modification in your original parameters and render another image, then save that one.
  3.  Repeat step # 2 many, many times (hundreds or thousands of times).
  4.  Combine all the images together into a video using one of the many tools available for such.


I guess that depends on one's definition of "a newb".  If you mean a teenager that has been creating fractals for a few months or maybe as much as a couple of years, then I would definitely refer to them as "a newb".     

There are people posting to this forum who have been creating fractals since before you were even born.

MiniMaster

I can only help you if you use FRACTINT program. If you don't, get it and learn - it is more versatile than just about any other out there. It allows the input of custom formulas and scripts, used to do animations. Animations that can be done with NO other software out there. Like on the UFVP sites.

The scripts can be written by hand (yeah - really!) or with simple BASIC loops for rendering thousands of frames. I have written a number of programs to do all kinds of animations with fractint.

I have posted the mandelbrot zoomer programs on my site, real easy to use:

http://www.fractal-animation.net/progz/filez.html

they are at the bottom.


If you can use them correctly I can give you other programs for more complex animations, I don't have those posted normally.

Hope this helps.