moving illustrations?

I'm very new at this but am interested in Stop Motion or at least moving illustrative work. I'm a masters art student and have been put down as a 'video art' discipline. I have always been interested in the work by William Kentridge who illustrates and films it using a video camera, illustrating frame by frame, stop motion style. Has anyone ever done anything like that or have heard or can direct me to illustrative work that would be classified as 'video art'. I'm not sure where to start and what programs would be best to use. I am proficient with Photoshop. Any help and advice would be awesome.

I recommend queempiesas flash cs4 and then passes to 3d max. They are very good animation program manyape