This is a link to the monoprice site.

MonoPrice sells cheaper alternatives to the Wacom tablet. My brother who is an illustrator has one of the larger ones. I have used it and it is comparable to my more expensive Wacom tablet. At leas when it came to using Photoshop. I didn’t try it in any other application.

A very good looking animation from BlackMeal on Vimeo.
Blackmeal is a creative production company developing and producing video projects for a wide array of supports, spanning from television and cinema to web and multiplatform productions.

The following videos give you an idea of some of the stuff that is possible with flip book animation.

http://vimeo.com/49748512

http://vimeo.com/646935

This is an animated lightening effect created by Alex Redfish

This is the effects reel of Naoki Yoshibe a.k.a. yotube, a traditional anime animator who works at Kamikaze Douga

This is a link to the site of a great traditional animator named Ryan Woodward.
http://ryanwoodwardart.com/A description from the site:

Over the years I’ve changed up my job description quite a bit.  Partially because of industry changes, but mostly because I get tired to doing the same thing for too long and I want to learn something else.  So these are some of the positions I’ve held over the years on feature films:

Traditional EFX Animator
Digital EFX Animator
Traditional Character Animator
Animatic Artist
Compositor
Storyboard Artist
Concept Animator
Character Designer
Concept Designer

Motion Picture Studios Include:

Warner Brothers Feature Animation
Walt Disney Pictures
Sony Pictures
Cartoon Network
Marvel Entertainment
Universal Studios
Dreamworks Pictures