Research for own animation

Here are some videos I looked at to give me ideas for my own animation:

water that eats from emily jameson on Vimeo.

Cookie from emily jameson on Vimeo.

first time lapse from Timothy Hodgson on Vimeo.

My Animation

An idea I have for my own animation is about countries. My 3 favourite countries are France, Italy and Greece. I am thinking I could do an animation based on them and give some facts about those countries that people may not know. I might use an animated map of the country or the name of the country, which the camera will zoom into and crossfade into pictures of various landmarks in that country with a caption about the country.