Cool! I have always wanted to build a light box, but just didn't know how
TLK style is easy to draw as you said, you just need alot of guide lines. They tend to complicate animation with weight and shadow and blah blah blah, it's easy to understand it, you just need to draw it again and again.
woo, CAL ARTs you will have a hard time there if you really went. I'm still teaching myself animation from youtube tutorials or just watching a Disney animator drawing a scene in a (making of)
For me, the greatest Disney artists are Glen Keane, Aaron Blaise, and Andreas Deja. I wish I could draw as good as them...