Animating my board game

I have thought of a cool idea of animating my board game. First I will make my spaceship land on the pad and have 3 or 4 people walk out and move towards the board. I havent decided yet if I will make them walk realistically, or hop around space by space like you do with a real board game. But anyway, they will travel around the board game and I will make sure that 1 person will land on the robotic arm space which will then show the robotic arm do some damage on that person. Fianlly they will escape the robot and walk freely towards the castle of light. (quite like the name castle of light, makes it sound cool :D)