iPhone UIImageView animation woes

Answer 1

I think you need to retain the three arrays you create in viewDidLoad -- you never call alloc on them, so you don't have ownership until you call retain.

Answer 2

Instead of just calling retain use the initWithObjects message:

slowAnimation = [[NSArray alloc] initWithObjects:
                                  [UIImage imageNamed:@"image1.jpg"],
                                  [UIImage imageNamed:@"image2.jpg"],
                                  nil];