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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/animator/#m1)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/animator/#x1)
- Animators drew thousands of pictures for the film. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/animator/#x2)
- The animator moved the clay model a little for each photo. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/animator/#x3)
- Computer animators make characters in games. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/animator/#x4)
- Our class became animators for a day. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/animator/#x5)
- The animator's job is to make drawings seem alive. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/animator/#x6)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/23-animation-flipbooks-stop-motion-computer-cartoons/10/)
- [Many artists and animators still draw by hand even when they also use computers and AI, because drawing trains how you see.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/36-ai-pictures-and-ai-music-as-reported/15/)
- [Animators work on films, TV, games, adverts and apps, often in big teams; it is a real career.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/39-art-as-a-job-who-makes-art-money-fame-and-hard-work/13/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «animator» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/animator/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.