Thanks for the nice comments from Gimp Chat users who are themselves accomplished artists.
Wallace - always very supportive of peoples work and a really selfless person.
Isabella - I know your style is very different but also very supportive.
Lyle - You are interested in all things Gimp, something of a legend.
Skinneyhouse - I'm sure I could do a flythru of your synapses on a bad day

Sallyann and racer-x - I'm just an apprentice at animated 3D fractals. The master is here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AudUVaNpNOQ"I'm not in a mood to learn a new program right now" Understandable. I'm testing a beta version of MDBB that I had to compile and OpenCL is not fully implemented so there is a way to go yet.
Stephens render times were taking up to a week per video so OpenCL is a must. Ideal fractal render computers are the same as 3D gaming rigs (and bitcoin miners for some reason?) For fractals 2 SLI video cards is better than 2 quad-core CPUs. I would say it's because graphics cards are designed specifically to crunch graphics data and not general number crunching like CPUs.
Advice for 2019 - invest in graphics not CPU's.
