to run it, run: ant -Djavac.includes="" run to modify parameters, edit: src/deepZoom/MandelAnimator.java the frames will be output in the current working directory. you can combine them into a video using ffmpeg: ffmpeg -i %04d.png -vcodec libx264 -vpre veryslow -crf 19 -vf "scale=1024:-1" out.mp4