animation links

I've done a bit of research into simple animations to get some ideas for how I can animate my imagery:

Robert Hunter
http://robertfrankhunter.com/The-Jungle-Book-animation-teaser - jungle book
http://robertfrankhunter.com/Jon-Hopkins-EP-Teaser - jon hopkins 
http://robertfrankhunter.com/Buoy - buoy
He occasionally makes teaser animations to promote his illustrations which are really effective - they are often quite short and simple but really atmospheric. I think the actual moving figures would be quite a challenge for me, especially with the cut outs, but what I really like are his rolling background with little movements here and there - you can see he works with lots of layers which help create lots of depth

Sea Life
http://webneel.com/video/re-cycle-cut-out-animation
Stop motion - used using lots of cut outs, is quite simple and rough but works well to create sea-life scene. The images move so fast that you don't notice that there are static forms. 

Floating
http://www.ceminsk.com/post/34175584388/simple-illustrationanimation-of-nessie-the-loch
I like the simplicity of this - it is just a figure floating, it would be easy enough to have a background with some elements making little movements like this yet would still be effective in giving life to the imagery

Gifs
http://www.wired.com/2013/09/the-rise-of-subtle-tasteful-and-commissioned-animated-gif-illustrations/
This selection of gifs are really nice - so simple but make the illustrations so much more interesting 

Life of Dinosaur
https://vimeo.com/45616029
This is pretty similar to how I wanted my animation to look - the simple cut outs make it very appealing to children

Lake
https://vimeo.com/111034684
Again, very simple gif but the added movement gives it more of a relaxed atmosphere - more serene, adding movement and sound to mine could make it more lively and exciting or maybe scary?