oh gosh well I started trying animation long before I went to a school for it so YES just try anything you can! flip books are fun and easy to make, lightboxes are good to start but try not to rely on them- you get a better idea of how the drawings will move by flipping the paper so find a method of holding the paper together (use a hole punch and make a peg bar or even just staple them together at the bottom to start), and there’s always stop motion that you can start trying with moving about anything at all and a camera! plasticine is good but you can get the idea of movement and learn about animating by using coins, clothes, literally anything you have- my first gig in animation was work experience in a stop motion studio (the place that does Bob the Builder) and it gave me a good footing in how far to move things and the importance of holding still once in a while. Hope you don’t mind me publishing it but I think it’s relevant to anyone wanting to have a dabble at animation- don’t think you can’t start now!