Yo, so for uni I did a course called minor; basically a brief trip into another study.
It lasted a whole year, and was called IMAGINATION.
We had to do one assignment, which was to create a short (1 min) movie from scratch, mostly with the help of Autodesk's Maya.
First half of it was thinking of a story, characters, environment, etc.
It also had to feature a building (had to pick from a list). I chose http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nakagin_Capsule_Tower
The backstory is that of a green man in a grey world (a place where they obviously don't want him to be).
Here's the end result:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_VohHlWnBS4
Progress blog (dutch): http://blog.bk.tudelft.nl/fallingcolors/
Soundtrack (downloadable): http://soundcloud.com/toams/tomas-three-original-mix