More inspiration

So I've been thinking about my final piece for a couple of weeks now and have a few different story ideas  (illustrations to follow!). It was recommended that I might try portraying an existing story through animation which is what I've been looking into doing. Since I'm investigating how the visual style affect the movement in animations, I would like the final piece to reflect this by using two different styles within the story. There are lots of examples of this out there and these are just a few of the ones I find interesting and give me ideas as to what I can do.

Granny O'Grimm

The two different styles clearly define the real world of the bedtime scene and the fantasy world from the storybook. I really like the visual and animation styles used within the 2D scene and it's clear how these are different from that of the 3D in terms of design, colour and movement.

Kung Fu Panda

The intro to Kung Fu Pands is again taking part in Panda's imagination and is done in 2D, with very different staging, animation and cinematography from the rest of the story, which is 3D animation. As with Granny O'Grimm, the 'real life' scenes are portrayed more realistically with the imaginary being more cartoony in design and movement which makes sense for the stories. The Kung Fu Panda intro is clearly anime influenced both in design and animation, whereas the rest of the film is more fitting with the traditional western Dreamworks style.

Princess and the Frog

This is the same idea, with the imaginary scene created in a different style; same characters, different design. This is a good example as it shows a contrast between two 2D animated styles rather than 2D vs 3D. There's definitely a recurring theme where these imaginary stories are being told through a character and have a narration running alongside. I would like to do something a bit less literal and hope to be able to use this method without the commentary as I aim to keep dialogue to a minimum.

Dumbo

The pink elephants in Dumbo provide an example of this - inside Dumbo's imagination but without the added commentary. There's also no real story to this - in the other examples the main character was thinking these images up intentionally whereas here it is more of a hallucination, and the characters are not controlling what we see. This method would work better for some of the stories I've been looking at.  The designs actually change within the imaginary scene - as well as from reality to imaginary - with different animation styles as well as the varying visual designs.