@wolf359 - yeah like I said I produced all the props (maps, the train, houses, churches etc etc) in Rhino3D, then animated in Poser by hand by keyframing and splitting the movie into 7 scenes. The render is also Poser (Firefly), with occasional use of depth of field; the thing that gives it the 'clay' feel is the use of subsurface scattering, which I faked using material node wizardry. The only thing I didn't model were the humanoid characters.

@flibbits - I agree about the audio. I tried filtering, but the noise is low-range rather than high frequency so filters didn't touch it. I didn't have time to play around getting it right unfortunately; this was a quick project!

@saibabmeuk - small world! Did you produce the whole 11 minutes yourself? It has a  desolate feel to it which I guess is due to the audio. I found producing my movie that I learnt loads as I went along; your 11 minutes seems to have different styles at different stages too.