animator

[ an-uh-mey-ter ]

noun

1. a person or thing that animates.
2. Graphic Arts. an artist who produces animation from drawings, objects, or computer models: a video game animator;

   a cartoon animator;

   a video game animator;

   a stop-motion animator.

animator

/ ˈænɪˌmeɪtə /

noun

1. an artist who produces animated cartoons
2. a person who coordinates or facilitates something, esp a television or radio presenter

Word History and Origins

Origin of animator¹

First recorded in 1565–75, and in 1915–20 animator fordef 2; from Late Latin animātor; animate, -tor

Example Sentences

So as animators, we are allowed to let the audience wallow in hilariously awkward beats and milk that tension for all it’s worth.

From Washington Post

The show worked with Exceptional Minds, an organization that provides training and employment services for autistic people in animation, to hire animators and VFX professionals.

From Time

An animator can do any number of jobs at a gaming company or studio, from building immersive landscapes and cities to modeling what a certain character will look like to designing user interfaces and navigational components.

From TechCrunch

Ellie Pritts, a photographer and animator from Los Angeles, learned about NFTs after talking to Foundation, an invite-only NFT marketplace, several months ago.

From MIT Technology Review

Ellie Pritts, the photographer and animator, argues that it’s unfair to single out artists for participating in something that produces pollution, given the many more common activities that do as well.

From MIT Technology Review

He plays Wallace, a twentysomething medical school dropout who falls for Chantry (Zoe Kazan), a capricious animator/artist.

From The Daily Beast

Vladimir Shahettinin, a 40-year-old computer programmer and animator, makes what he describes as “patriotic cartoons.”

From The Daily Beast

Her 18-year-old daughter, an aspiring animator, is headed for art school, she says.

From The Daily Beast

I wanted to be an animator when I was a kid so I really enjoy that kind of work.

From The Daily Beast

A clever animator took on the meta task in a too-short 30-second YouTube video.

From The Daily Beast

Pachacamac, the great deity mentioned above, signifies "earth-animator."

From Project Gutenberg

So, though Picasso remains the animator of the doctrinaire school or schools, Lhote may become the master.

From Project Gutenberg

What made me ask about children was that—that mediaeval animator.

From Project Gutenberg

The substantial cause, the efficient of the worlds, the animator of spirits.

From Project Gutenberg

Viracocha too had a cosmic position; an old Peruvian hymn calls him “world-former, world-animator.”

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• artisan
• craftsman
• illustrator