animator

«animator» in Mova's school dictionary: a person who makes animated films, cartoons or computer… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 3 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

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 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

• 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.