Modes of Animation

My final animation project will center around the USS North Carolina for a giant game of battleship. The first few seconds of the animation will start out with the word B-52 on the screen. It will then cut to the USS North Carolina on a nice day in Wilmington. Perhaps someone will run up the ramp and into the ship. Then the ship rumbles to life and snaps the chains hold it. The ramps and tourist fixtures all begin to crumble and break as she pulls out into the river. From a riverbank view she blows the bridge to pieces and moves onward toward the open sea. From a google earth view she will continue to make her way down to the panama canal before heading to Hawaii then finally Japan. All along the way funny speech bubbles will pop up a she passes by interesting places. In Japan, from a ground view, she will open fire on an old WWII era Japanese battleship. At that point, the most Japanese person in the world will run out and exclaim, "Oh no! You sunk my battleship!" Techno music will play as we zoom in to the captain of the USS North Carolina who is dancing in victory. Then switch back to the Japanese man who starts to laugh and then dances. Final shot is wide of everyone dancing, even the ship (by bouncing up and down and moving its cannons.
As far as technique is concerned I would use a combination of rotoscoping for the background and after effects for foreground movement of the ship and water. I would use parenting for the gun movement. I also want to use some explosion and smoke effects. Most of the animation will be derived from still images, but I might use some video footage of the river to make the water movement more realistic.