0 someone who makes animated films, drawings, models, etc.:
Walt Disney is the most famous animator of feature-length films.
In particular, the working life of a professional animator or composer is far from the popularist view of creative arts 'activity'.
You can imagine all sorts of physically impossible things happening - and cartoon animators frequently do, to our amusement.
To this extent, the ironist - in being author, animator, and principal - is playwright, per former, and character.
We could consider the sound artist as animator, master over life and death, time and space, rather than taxidermist, artist of slight-of-hand illusion.
Within such a framework, participants are assigned all the three roles (animator, author, and principal).
For instance, the president's press secretary may be the animator, the speech writer the author, and the president the principal.
The second is that animators often come from non-computer backgrounds and feel uncomfortable with a programmer-oriented interface.
As graphic engines deliver faster processing speeds, it is the labour of the animator which is becoming the critical factor in the cost of computer animation.
