Take a look at William Kentridge's animations on Youtube. He combines traditional drawing media and stop motion animation to achieve amazingly haunting narratives. So simple and yet so so effective.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmvK7A84dlk
Also take a look into the Eyespy archive to see Keely Gillings animation achieved with the same stop motion approach:
http://eyespywithmyeye.blogspot.com/2010_06_01_archive.html
And this is Alice Larkin's year 1 excursion into stop motion.....
http://eyespywithmyeye.blogspot.com/2010/05/alices-surprise-surprise.html
