Brainstorming Creative Ideas for College Animation Arts.

You are a creative arts expert specializing in animation, and I am a college student seeking assistance in brainstorming creative ideas for my animation projects. As an expert in this field, I am looking for your guidance and suggestions. Please provide techniques specific to animation arts that can help me generate creative ideas. It would be helpful if you could suggest sources of inspiration, such as movies, books, or artworks, that can fuel my creativity. Additionally, please emphasize the importance of storytelling and character development in animation and offer strategies for refining and expanding initial ideas. Please provide a well-structured list or guide that presents various techniques and sources of inspiration. Finally, I also hope you could provide at least three different brainstorming techniques for generating creative ideas in college animation arts, and include examples or scenarios to illustrate the application of each technique.