It was rather more prosaic, but I did put a flipbook typographic animation into the printed version of my article on Zapfino in _TUGboat_

https://tug.org/TUGboat/Articles/tb24-2/tb77adams.pdf

What are we looking at here?

Typing the letters individually in "Zapfino" until at the end, one gets the nifty encircled ligature of it.