CRAP PAPER.

Well okay not *crap* crap paper, but honestly I found that the best paper for animating was the thinner stuff; at school we had the fancy prepunched stuff with the right holes for the peg bar which was awesome, and you could have ‘rough’ or ‘clean’ paper. Rough was more like regular printing paper, clean was very smooth and beautiful to get sharp work down onto it, but didn’t grip the lead so well (I don’t press down hard like some people) and was quite thick. I didn’t use my desk’s backlighting function very much so the slight transparency of the rough sort helped me read the flow of frames a little better, and before that I’d been animating on cheap A4 paper from the super market which was even more transparent! Horrible to manage on the peg bar though, much too small for one.

So yeah man that’s my two cents but you can use pretty much anything, and certainly any sort of paper- that’s why so many animators have made flip books in the past.