in-betweener

British  

noun

1. an intermediate person or thing

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Example Sentences

He worked as an in-betweener, an artist who hand-draws transition frames between key art and poses in 2D animation, and contributed to major cartoons including "Popeye the Sailor" and "Betty Boop."

From Salon

“At this point, music’s just an in-betweener for advertisements on radio. But that’s fine, whatever. I’ll take both,” Lambert told The Post.

From Washington Post

In the late 1930s, when few doors were open to the son of a poor Chinese immigrant, Tyrus Wong landed a job at Walt Disney’s studio as a lowly “in-betweener,” whose artwork filled the gaps between the animator’s key drawings.

From Washington Post

Being an “in-betweener” required little creativity and a lot of eye-straining tedium.

From Washington Post

Then there was the affront of the in-betweener’s job: Painstaking, repetitive and for Mr. Wong quickly soul-numbing, it is the assembly-line work of animation — “a terrible use of his talents as a landscape artist and a painter,” Canemaker, the Oscar-winning animator, said.

From Seattle Times