Many of the images on my home page are rendered with The
Persistence of Vision(tm) Ray-Tracer. 
Below are some utilities and web sites that will help with creating animations with POV-Ray.
Web Sites:
POV-Ray Clock Function Tutorial
Utilities:
Use Dave's Targa Animator (DTA) to make .flc animations from POV-Ray images.
Lots of graphics utilities here: Creating Animations for the Web - PC
Use The Way Cool Flic Screen Saver Engine to play .flc animations as Windows screen savers.
Chris Colefax's POV-Ray Plugins
The Officially Unofficial POV-Ray 3.0 Utility Warehouse
3D text object generator, multiple output types including POV-Ray compatible .inc - Font3D by Todd A. Prater.
SLP2POV -A utility to convert Pro/Engineer render (.slp) files to POV-Ray format (.inc) by Bruce W. Bodnyk
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comments or suggestions to: Richard
Baldwin