Now that I sort of have a concept for my animation I am on to the storyboarding and visual development stage, I'm starting by watching a bunch of animated shorts to try and get a sense of not only how it could look but what I could do story wise in a relatively short time frame. 

"Fol'Amor" by Goblin School of Animation

I really love the textures on the backgrounds and the characters of this Animation. There is also a making of video available here:

 http://www.cgmeetup.net/home/folamor-shortfilm-and-making-of-folamor/ 

"None Of That" by Ringling College of Art + Design