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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
animator
noun
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▪ Disney animators are, above all, actors.
▪ Of critical importance is that the studio continues to attract gifted animators.
▪ One of its most important activities is a Leadership Training Programme which aims to train a total of 700 animators.
▪ Terry Jones has moved into film direction, as has Terry Gilliam, the show's animator.
▪ The information is then fed into a computer so that animators can bring the digital images to life as game characters.
▪ The one bat was copied by the dozens until the animators had a mob.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Animator

Animator \An"i*ma`tor\, n. [L. animare.] One who, or that which, animates; an animater.
--Sir T. Browne. [1913 Webster] ||

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
animator

1630s, "one who enlivens or inspires," from Latin animator, agent noun from animare (see animate (v.)). Cinematographic sense is from 1919.

Wiktionary
animator

n. 1 One who animates something; one who brings something to life or the appearance of life. 2 One who creates an animation or cartoon; a cartoonist.

WordNet
animator
  1. n. someone who imparts energy and vitality and spirit to other people [syn: energizer, energiser, vitalizer, vitaliser]

  2. the technician who produces animated cartoons

Wikipedia
Animator

An animator is an artist who creates multiple images, known as frames, which give an illusion of movement called animation when displayed in rapid sequence. Animators can work in a variety of fields including film, television, and video games. Animation is closely related to filmmaking and like filmmaking is extremely labor-intensive, which means that most significant works require the collaboration of several animators. The methods of creating the images or frames for an animation piece depends on the animators' artistic styles and their field.

Other artists who contribute to animated cartoons, but who are not animators, include layout artists (who design the backgrounds, lighting, and camera angles), storyboard artists (who draw panels of the action from the script), and background artists (who paint the "scenery"). Animated films share some film crew positions with regular live action films, such as director, producer, sound engineer, and editor, but differ radically in that for most of the history of animation, they did not need most of the crew positions seen on a physical set.

In hand-drawn Japanese animation productions, such as in Hayao Miyazaki's films, the key animator handles both layout and key animation. Some animators in Japan such as Mitsuo Iso take full responsibility for their scenes, making them become more than just the key animator.

Animator (disambiguation)

An animator is an artist who creates multiple images that give an illusion of movement when displayed in rapid sequence.

Animator may also refer to:

  • Animator.ru, a Russian website
  • "Animator" (song), a 2006 indie rock song
  • Autodesk Animator, a 2D animation and painting program
  • ANIMATOR, an animated film festival
ANIMATOR (festival)

The ANIMATOR International Animated Film Festival ( Polish: Międzynarodowy Festiwal Filmów Animowanych ANIMATOR), organized in Poznań under the patronage of the city of Poznań since 2008, is the most important international animated film festival in Poland. During every edition of this event more than 500 films from all over the world, including retrospectives, thematic reviews, premieres and screenings with live music and rarely shown works of animation pioneers are presented.

The festival reviews are accompanied by the International Short and Full-length Animated Film Competition, judged by an international jury, for which films from more than fifty countries are entered. The grand prize awarded at this competition is the Golden Pegasus (Polish: "Złoty Pegaz").

The activities of the Animator Festival include meetings with artists, exhibitions, performances, concerts, workshops and lectures. A distinguishing feature of the ANIMATOR Festival is its focusing on the interrelations between animation and music. Many screenings are accompanied by live music, performed by a jazz trio, rock band, DJ collective or symphonic orchestra.

The programme of every edition of the festival is characterized by a broad thematic, cultural and historical diversity. Along with the most recent works representing various techniques and modern trends in animation cinema, the rich history and prehistory of the world cinema is presented at the festival.

The festival’s artistic director is Marcin Giżycki.

Usage examples of "animator".

Larry Lepper, despite his youthful appearance, was the greatest animator in the business.

I cannot begin to list all the other artists, paleontologists, authors, animators, etc.

And so were the animators and voice actors who created his co-stars.