An alternative counter, not too much serious, to be used at the beginning of video timelines… made of melt chocolate. It has been employed software of modelling and animation 3d with tools for dynamic and fluid simulations.
Example of 2.5D animated titles (multi-layered images on a 3d environment). The animation has been composed using Adobe After Effects. These titles were used at the beginning and at the end of a video (which is not shown here).