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In my opinion the tablet is absolutely necessary if you're doing frame by frame animation with anything other than simple shapes. This entire cartoon is frame by frame

http://vimeo.com/53638798

I did it all on the cheapest, smallest Wacom (Bamboo 5x4") which works great for me (yes, they're like $70). The main advantage the tablet is not so much that it's a pen. The advantage is that it has "absolute positioning" - the tablet = the screen, so the control is tight and locked. A mouse moves by "relative positioning" - just according to where the cursor was last. You can actually set the tablet to work like a mouse (relative positioning) and it's just as bad as a mouse.

Thanks you guys! I worked on it for like nine months. It's like I had a baby

I'm new here and thought I'd introduce myself. I made some Flash shorts years ago but I've jumped back in and made a new cartoon which you can see here:

http://vimeo.com/53638798

It's all frame by frame. I use video reference for the skateboarding (you can see it in the credits). I export image sequences out of Flash and reassemble the whole thing in Premiere. I guess another thing you might notice is the textures which are actually built in Photoshop then inserted into graphics in Flash using masks. I tried to make it funny. I hope you like it!

I agree that exporting .mov out of Flash is very glitchy. BUT I have found Flash to be very reliable exporting an IMAGE SEQUENCE. No glitches, no dropped frames. You can import the image sequence into Quicktime Pro or (what I use) Premiere then export a glitch free .mov. Works great. I export .jpg sequence or if I want transparency (alpha channel) I export .png sequence.