Fortunately other people with way more talent than me are also odd ducks, and back in 2009 this time-lapse animation of Pompeii's final day was created for the Melbourne Museum:
Now there's also an animation of the Titanic sinking, and this one is not time-lapse, it's all 2 hours and forty minutes of watery terror.
In both of these videos, there are sound effects but no people, which gives them a really eerie feel.
