For my animation, I wanted to deal with ecosystems on a microscopic level and wanted to focus on an aquatic environment, like ponds or wetlands. Instead of having an obvious narrative, I plan to have segments focusing on different organisms that exist in aquatic habitats, such as algae, water plants, macro invertebrates and microorganisms, and animals that live in or near the water. I plan on using images of these organisms under a microscope and layering them together to echo the complexity of the ecosystem. Here are some images I plan to use. Hopefully you can get an idea of what I'm going for from them, as the storyboarding in my sketchbook just looks like a bunch of squiggles and massive walls of awful handwriting and doesn't make much sense.

I think my biggest challenge is not making my video dry or boring. I want it to focus on biology without being too esoteric and uninteresting.