When you think classic animation, you think cartoons. To do classic cartoon animation you really need a way of holding your drawings in alignment ("registration") and seeing what you've already drawn while you're making the next drawing.
The simplest registration system is "corner registration" - you just line up the corners of your stack of paper. Don't laugh at it - two time Academy Award nominee animator (Blackfly (1991), Nibbles (2003)) Chris Hinton uses corner registration for at least some of his work, including "Nibbles". But the usual way is to punch holes in your animation paper and use a "peg bar" to keep the pages lined up.
The industry standard Acme peg bars aren't in every stationer's; to use them you need an expensive punch or pre-punched paper - also a specialty item. Standard 3 hole punches will work - and here's a project from Instructables.com that shows you how to make the peg bar you need. It also shows how to make the light box or tracing table that you'll want for tracing your drawings.
Here's another light box, this time built into an old briefcase for compact storage and easy portability.
These are great ideas - and Instructables.com is full of ideas for everything you want to do. Explore, enjoy, and contribute your own projects!
