I´m sure it is not the right place to post this!
Does anyone in here have experience on Animate on paper Vs. Animating on Cintiq?
I´m thinking on investing in a cintiq. But Im not 100 % convinced?

I hate to appear 'old fashioned' but I would only go Cintiq if the client 'obliged' me or it was a prerequisite to get an interesting job from a long term client.
I am not questioning Cintiq's effectiveness but at 1,000€ or 2 each until it is really necessary I prefer to allow that extra money to help me become a better animator in other ways (ie. add more books to my collection, more DVD's, more time to study film etc).

I've never had experience on a Cintiq tablet, but I have used the Intuos which is nice to have around but I wouldn't use it for anything other than having digital story boards or things along those lines. Rather than spending money on a Cintiq I would invest in an Intuos for storyboarding, and other pre-production stuff and spend the rest on an animation table and disc, great website for that http://animation-studio-stuff.blogspot.com/, to do your production and post-production work. The only downfall I've ever noticed with doing it by hand are the extra steps involved, such as scanning and inking but I personally think those extra steps and investment into the piece are what makes it so special and gives it that hand drawn feel.

I cannot live without my grafic tablet, similar to Intuos. I use it for everything on my computer. In fact when I was making my film and spent months without drawing just supervising stuff on my computer, thanks to using the pen on the tablet instead of the mouse I didn’t lose dexterity in my drawing hand and when I had to draw it was much easier and I felt I hadn’t lost my touch so to speak.

I draw everything on paper and finish everything in ink ( if my interns are not doing the ink transfer). But I do use a Cintiq to color and shade with. Coloring with the mouse was giving me carpol tunnel problems when working on 300+ frame sequences and the regular Wacom just confounded my eye hand coordination, so I broke down, saved up and bought the biggest Cintiq they made and absolutly do not regret it. It allows me to add complex shading to characters and objects when I'm using composite brushes in photoshop and is easier on my wrist for some reason.

It's gives me a wierd computer set-up on my post machine, The Cintiq sits in front of me, slightly upright like an easil and I use it as my primary monitor. I have a small shelf above it where I keep a WS-LCD display. I configured my Mac to strech the desktop upwards so I can use the top monitor to keep refrence material for color scheme matching with other scenes or keep my secondary tools off the Cintiq, so I have more room to work. It's pretty crazy, but it helps me manage project integrity on deadlines...or would if I was employed to work on a hand-drawn animated feature...-sigh- I keep telling myself if I get the funds to put a productionhouse together, I'll have get my coloring department to have simular setups, but as I said, for drawing my characters and objects, I just can't beat my hand, mind(x-sheet) and pencil.