story generation

I knew I wanted to create a simple narrative so I started the slow process of idea generation. I personally feel that one of my most successful animations that I have made during my degree has been one of the first ones I have made. It was technically the best but its simple narrative was easy to follow and I thought it was pretty funny, this was my golgothan animation.
The reason I felt this story was successful is that it focused on one main character travelling from A to B for a simple reason. The character's journey is interrupted for the sake of humour. This is a really effective and simple way to create a comedic narrative.
I started off struggling with a creating a concept and spent a lot of time coming up with nothing. I reliased I was trying to pull a story out of thin air which was not going to happen.
I decided a better way to create a narrative was to build a world first then fit characters and stories into it. This is somewhat how show like adventure time structure their episodes and its a solid formula.