Technique/inspiration

Found this animation by a guy called Nick Cross - there isn't much narrative to it and he said it's only to "flex his creative msucle", but the surreal and disturbing nature is something that I find incredibly interesting and I'm always impressed when someone can create that sort of vibe through animation/drawing. 

Interesting to see process of a relatively simple animation like this. This is by Pat McHale for a show that was art directed by Nick Cross

Pat McHale's first year uni animation - I want to create a rock steady animation like this - drawing different elements such as faces separately from bodies so that I can animate those while the rest of the image stays still. This is what makes a solid animation for me.

Although the technique is inspiring to me, it's not the visual aesthetic I am interested in using as it is much too cartoony for depicting Burroughs' work

Another visual aesthetic I'm not totally interested in, apart from the textured background which I think contrasts strongly with line drawing and could work well with my animation's backgrounds.

(from a video I saw at the AOI award exhibition in London)

and this head turning tutorial might come in handy