Disney Artist Teaches Animation - How to Flip Paper + "Inbetween"

I'm not sure how active you are in the comments of older videos. I've been a professional digital animator for over 15 years now, but I've literally never done paper animation.
In the past month I've decided to go back, and seek as much knowledge on this process as possible. If you wouldn't mind sharing your experience with my questions I'd greatly appreciate the insight.
Aside from an admiration for the expression of traditional animation, I'm enjoying the unplugged nature of it. I'm considering doing paper storyboarding to help immerse myself during new project's development.

I'm here because I felt i was terrible at flipping (I am, but that's besides the point lol). I noticed when I was on a drawing for any significant amount of time, my flipping would wear on the paper a lot. At 3:08 in your video, I see somthing very familiar. The little veins on the paper.
Are those defects just a part of the craft? Am I doing anything wrong when those occur?

Is there a brand of animation paper you recommend? preferably somthing i can get shipped. Im also comfortable operating any equipment for cutting my own if you know if anything like that. I got some from amazon, and i'm not really impressed with the hole punch quality.

if you are able to respond I would appreciate it greatly, regardless I appreciate the knowledge in your videos and am looking forward to extracting everything i can from them. :)

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I was told many years ago by Warner Bros. animator Virgil Ross that top pegging drawings was primarily started by the New York animators back in the day as opposed to how the California animators were working. He didn’t see any advantage to it either and preferred to flip his drawings bottom pegged. I’m so grateful for the training I had 40 years ago. Computers are great but there really is something magical about drawing on paper. Thank you for this wonderful video.

thanks! I'm going to try doing this at some point since I'm taking beginner art next school year.

oh that's so great to watch a left handed animating like this. Exactly content that i wanted and that plus cause im left handed too lol

Thanks for sharing this, learned a lot.

This was such an art. Don’t get me wrong animation on computer is still amazing but nothing can beat the hand drawing animation.

what is that thing that you flip the papers

This is exactly what ai will never replace this is human expression 🙏🏿

✨️💖 I love traditional animation. Thank you for sharing and teaching us you art. It's beyond beautiful. 💖 It's magical! ✨️

As an amateur animator myself, Why not place the inbetween frame in between two key drawings? wouldn't it be easier to see the movement🤔

at what level of muscle memory you need to achieve for this kind of drawing skills.

This seems impossible.

Professional drawing and skills

It would be easier for me to teach a tiger English