The technical society for my field,  ISTFA (failure analysis), has now twice
held a Video Contest. The prize is a free registration (~$950) to the next
conference.  There were 700 attendes at the actual conference, but only 7
bothered to enter the contest. No one else did "animation": it was mostly video
recording of metallurgical processes or FIB tools picking up TEM lamellae.

Last year I got second place with a povray animation; this year I got first
place with a stop-motion animation done with clay. I think the key feature is
perfect matching of sound with the action. But for that, I actually used povray,
by first making a 6 fps animation with povray-printed numbers, one per frame.
Then I know how many frames I need to relay each sentence.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JI0PPfTAdCc

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