The easiest way to animate without fancy software is basically doing stop motion but with pictures.  If you want to do fancy Pixar style animation, I believe there is software for it somewhere out there.

For a story line, why don't we take a familiar story or fairy tale and give it a twist? For instance, I've made a few changes to Snow White here.

Once upon a time, in a far away land called the CB, there lived a very vain and powerful king of the house of Lemming, King Red the first. Every day, he asked his mirror of Rucifena (ha) the same question: "Mirror, mirror, who never lies to me (hey Red, you know what they say "The mirror always lies"), who is the coolest guy in the CB?" Every day, the mirror gave the same response, "You, O King, are the coolest guy in the CB!" The answer never changed (yet the King asked every day. Vain much?) until one day the mirror said, "The coolest in the castle you may be, but Joe White is the coolest guy in the CB." Joe White was a handsome young lad who was related to King Red by some obscure nonsense involving a second cousin, a pitchfork, and a toaster strudel (it was all very hush-hush) but King Red was not above doing away with family members. (Coincidentally, Red is an only child.) Instead of sullying his own hands ("it might chip my nail polish!"), he hired a huntsman, Sir Gollum, to assassinate the young Joe White. Joe White started crying and begging Sir Gollum to spare his life. "Please, good sir! I have a younger sister at home! She needs me to take care of her! How could poor Daffodil live without her older brother?" "Just fine, I imagine," Sir Gollum mumbled under her breath but told the boy, "Oh, go run away. I don't care, I've been loyal to Red for years now, and I know how to trick him." Joe White ran off into the forest (so much for taking care of Daffodil) and Sir Gollum went back to the cattle and told King Red the job was done. King Red, being a rather gullible sort, believed Sir Gollum without any proof. Meanwhile, Joe White ran for a long time in the woods before he discovered a rather small house. Inside, he found seven dwarfs named Melody ("Are you calling me short???"), Blue Fairy, Miki, Ivy, Tiffany, Annie, and Bounty. They greeted him warmly  ("what the heck are you doing here? Didn't you see the sign that says 'No Tresspassing'? We ought to call out the pit bull!") and offered to share their suppers with him ("hey, I only made enough for seven people! You want to eat, you go make your own! Kids these days..."). After dinner, Joe White told the dwarves the story of how the huntsman had been hired to kill him. The dwarves felt sympathetic to the poor boy and agreed to let him live in the little house ("Hey, maids are hard to come by these days! I'm tired of cleaning up my own mess! If someone else can do it, let them! Besides, he can always sleep in the broom cupboard.") in exchange for keeping the place clean and tidy. Joe White agreed happily ("Hey, hey, hey, what is this? Do I look like a maid to you?" "Look, buster, it's this or sleep in in the streets.") and the seven dwarves, plus Joe White, settled down for the night. Joe White fit in well (despite the fact that he didn't whistle while he worked, much to the annoyance of Melody) and every day while the dwarves went off to "go to the mountains" ("What kind of fool goes to the mountains in a suit? You think I'm mining? No, I have a high paying office job and I'm proud of it!") Joe White cleaned and tidied and read gossip magazines and wrote HypQuests. However, back in the King's castle, King Red asked the mirror again if he was the coolest in the CB and the mirror answered, "Oh King, the coolest in the castle is you. But in all the CB, Joe White is coolest, to be true." King Red was enraged that Gollum had lied to him ("How could she? I trusted that minister! I had no idea she was corrupt!" "Seriously? It was in the job description. 'Wanted: Corrupt Minister. High pay.'" "Oh shut up, corrupt minister mirror.") and quickly took action. He disguised himself as a merchant woman (did I ever mention Kind Red liked crossdressing?) and went off to the dwarves house, suspecting that Joe White might be there. "Hello! I'm selling corsets, beautiful corsets! Would good sir like to buy one?" Joe White said, "No, I'm a boy, why would I want a corset?" and slammed the door in the king's face. The king went back to the castle and consulted the mirror. ("I knew that was a stupid plan!" "Didn't I tell you that? But did you listen? No, you did not!" "I'm going to break you.") He disguised himself again as a different merchant woman and set off again to the house. "Hello, young man! Your hair is looking awfully scruffy today! What would your mother say if she saw it? Please, won't you buy one of these combs and comb your hair?" Joe White answered, "My mother also told me not to talk to strangers!" and slammed the door again. The king went back to the castle and consulted the mirror again. ("That didn't work either! That boy listens too much to his mother! Wait! That's it! I'll disguise myself as his mother and he'll let me in! That's a brilliant plan!" "If you do that, it's only going to turn into Little Red Riding Hood. Why don't you appeal to a different proverb, Your Majesty?" "Go on, flattering mirror minister." "Have you ever heard the phrase, 'An apple a day keeps the doctor away'?") He disguised himself as yet another merchant lady (he had a great deal of wigs and dresses) and went back to the house. "Good day, good sir! My, you're looking awfully under the weather today! Are you hungry?" "I'll say! These dwarves have no taste in food and make me buy the worst things!" "You poor young man. Here. Granny has an apple. It'll make you feel all better." Joe White ate the apple (after all, you're only told not to take candy from strangers) and passed out! He had eaten too big of a piece and it had lodged in his windpipe! The kind cackled evilly and ran back to the castle. ("It worked! It worked! Mwa ha ha! I'm a genius!" "I'll pretend I wasn't the one who came up with that plan and I'll instead congratulate his Majesty. However, Your Majesty, you may want to stop talking to me. Servants think you are crazy for talking to a mirror, you know.") Soon, the dwarves came back from the "mountains" and found Joe White passed out on the floor of the cottage. ("Aw, nuts! That's the fifth one this month!" "Guess what? I went shopping at the flea market today, and I picked up this fabulous find! A human sized cake dome! We'll stick him in that!") The dwarves put Joe White in the coffin (*cough cough cake dome cough cough*) and set him out in the woods. A few days later, Princess BHR was out riding in the woods and found Joe White in his coffin (*cough cough cake dome cough cough*). She wondered who he was. Presently, she came to the house of the dwarves and asked, "Who is that boy out there in the coffin *cough cough cake dome cough cough*?" "That is Joe White," one of the dwarves said. "We think he choked on a piece of apple." BHR knew exactly what to do. She marched to the coffin (*cough cough cake dome cough cough*) and opened the lid. Grabbing Joe White, she proceeded to pound him on the back until he finally coughed up the piece of poison apple. "What happened?" Joe White asked the young blond girl standing over him. "I'm taking over the kingdom! Come with me!" So BHR and Joe White rode to the castle and demanded to see King Red. King Red and his servant switched clothes and the servant pretended to be Red, so the servant was punished for being a bad king and Red ran away to a little sea-side town to become a monk... Oh wait a minute, wrong story. So King Red was accused of being a poor king and a murderer and was tried for murder. The mirror testified that King Red ws guilty of the murder and Red was thrown in prison. BHR became the new Queen of the kingdom and was much loved until Joe White decided that he would like to have the kingdom too... But that's a story for another time.

Also, if we're going to do a movie, I'd like to write music for it. Maybe JtS could help if he wants. Or anybody else. This assuming that we can find a way to send sound files to each other.