animator
part of speech
noun (an animator, animators)
meaning for a pupil
An animator is a person who makes animated films, cartoons or computer games by creating moving pictures. tree →
sense in the lessons
In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: In this old translation it means something that gives life or love, set against the "destroyers". Interpretation: The text sets twelve simple letters at war, some bringing love and life and others hatred and destruction, showing that opposites are part of the world. In the primary lessons: In art, computing and careers lessons, animators draw, model in clay or use computers to make characters move frame by frame; big films need hundreds of animators. Some children learn animation with flip books, stop-motion and coding apps.
examples
- There are twelve which are all the time at war; three of them produce love, and three hatred, three are animators and three destroyers. (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877) tree →
- There are twelve which are all the time at war ; three of them produce love, and three hatred, three are animators and three destroyers. (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877) tree →
- She wants to be an animator when she grows up. tree →
- Animators drew thousands of pictures for the film. tree →
- The animator moved the clay model a little for each photo. tree →
- Computer animators make characters in games. tree →
- Our class became animators for a day. tree →
- The animator's job is to make drawings seem alive. tree →
note
Countable; use an: an animator. Ends in -or. Related: animate, animation, animated.
In the corpora
- Even with computers, animators still decide every movement; the computer does not make the art by itself.
- Many artists and animators still draw by hand even when they also use computers and AI, because drawing trains how you see.
- Animators work on films, TV, games, adverts and apps, often in big teams; it is a real career.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «animator» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.