Thanks for the great info folks, sorry I went incommunicado for a bit there.
Those are great suggestions, and I will look into some of those.
What about Toon Boom? Does anyone know much about that?...

Hi all-
I have a son who loves to draw and wants to get into animation.
He's a teenager, and he is autistic.
We just got him a drawing tablet, can he draw direct into Maya or does he need to use...