In short, do not worry about originality right now. You are Story Tellers. As far as I am concerned, communication and investment is key. How good you are at voice acting, drawing, and layout is what matters. All of that to create a mood and have the audience follow you all the way on a journey you designed. That is the essence of lessons like these.

But I ain't a teacher.

But-but, I have seen cartoons you never heard of.

So let me recommend a few. And lets put this in the language of this class.

(And some warning, some of these may be PG-13 by some people's standards, but there is no swearing, nudity, or bloody violence in the following links. Just artistic animated shorts and one film that I feel any college age animation student should see)

What if a bear was treated like a human being? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AW6EIUx9Ui4

What if the world was made of balloons? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zb0PA-TaS4g

What if the embodiments of truth, beauty, and good lived on an island together? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCuUb3lYbqM

What if life evolved from a soda bottle? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pgANtzO2G4

What if wrestler fell in love during a match? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjTzr-ZjDlw

Big ideas or small ideas, there are big and small ways to tell those ideas. What is your way of telling an idea? Because if you can't tell a small idea well, imagine how hard it is to tell your big idea. And in that arena, the arena of pure creativity with languages unique to singular visions that STILL somehow connect to the audience, there are champions few of us can compete with. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIhKqaNp4Dc