Material

I need material ... i have ideas and fizzles of images and mini animations running through my head - but nothing to put them into practice... I think I'm starting to find this quite difficult now I have everything available to me to start things off, I need to work out how to start it, and how to do things, but I don't know how?!
does that make sense?
Like... when someone asks me, 'So, what do you want to know about animation?'
And I say something in a stutter like.. 'Well, I don't know anything really, I just know what I like, but I can't really ask you to tell me or show me what I want to know, because I don't know it - I don't know what you know, so I don't know what to ask you to tell me - because I don't know...?'

confused?

yes. I am.

So... to solve this?
When I emailed Mike please, I tried to structure the questions to try to help me around my issue of not knowing what I need to know, [not heard back from him yet].. I asked about his process of creating an animation - so I hear words like storyboarding.. but i'm not sure when storyboarding happens, or if it's essential, or if it's just as good to dive straight in and play; so hopefully he can help me out a little there.
Hmmm... Although the diving straight in seems pretty scary, as it's like sailing out to sea and just taking a run and jump - I haven't got a clue what's out there or what's around me, because I can't see it, and I don't know enough about it to be sure.

A quick update also.. Matt Saunders asked me to work on something with him if i was free, so just organising the best time to meet together as the timetable keeps changing!! Think if we can get the lecture theatre it'll be Weds, so fingers crossed... Apart from the small point I haven't got a clue what it's all about, I just hope it's useful!