How to Use animator in a Sentence

animator

noun
  • Then again, the stealthy mothership could just be artistic license on the part of the animator.
    Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 8 Mar. 2018
  • At the time of her Disney trip, Pratt wanted to be an animator.
    Mercedes Leguizamon, CNN, 22 Mar. 2018
  • Much of the film takes place on the island, which Anderson and his animators realize in marvelous detail.
    Ben Sachs, Chicago Reader, 6 Apr. 2018
  • Now an animator and motion graphics designer, one of his initial tasks on the job was to animate a scared horse for part of the earthquake exhibit.
    Beth Spotswood, San Francisco Chronicle, 11 Apr. 2018
  • The stately pace of the animation accelerates as the animators use rough brush lines to show her ripping off her finery to touch leaves and flowers.
    Charles Solomon, latimes.com, 9 Apr. 2018
  • That's all informative and thorough, well and good, but one animator's treasure can be another programmer's trash.
    Sam MacHkovech, Ars Technica, 24 Mar. 2018
  • Video cameras recorded the actors’ facial expressions and body language to create visual references for the animators down the line.
    Matt Zoller Seitz, Vulture, 5 Dec. 2024
  • The original writers and animators who worked on Magoo were actually forced out of the company.
    The Washington Post, AL.com, 1 Mar. 2018
  • The animators did a really good job of interpreting it and objectifying it.
    Ryan Fleming, Deadline, 6 Dec. 2024
  • What the animators do with the ocean and the storms is remarkable.
    Bill Goodykoontz, Arizona Republic, 26 Nov. 2024
  • The animator Tomm Moore first learned of these myths as a teen-ager in Kilkenny, in the early nineties.
    Mark O’Connell, The New Yorker, 11 Dec. 2020
  • He and the animators circled around the television and cued their projects on the screen.
    Sameer Rao, baltimoresun.com, 11 July 2019
  • Which means that the animators don’t have to constantly sculpt the clay.
    Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Oct. 2024
  • In the story line, a young girl named Julie copes with the death of her father, a Disney animator.
    Matthew J. Palm, orlandosentinel.com, 28 Nov. 2021
  • Early in the 35-year-old’s career, the standard for animators was to work on a few big projects per year.
    Taylor Telford, Washington Post, 21 July 2023
  • Lei wants to pursue a career in art: His dream job is to work at Pixar as an animator.
    oregonlive, 9 July 2022
  • That's where people show their work to the director and the leads and fellow animators.
    Susannah Hutcheson, USA TODAY, 5 June 2018
  • Sure, there’s a video game layered on top, but the real draw is the world Ubisoft’s artists and animators and scripters created.
    Hayden Dingman, PCWorld, 15 May 2020
  • Also, at the end of the day, Ukrainian animators want to be recognized for their skill.
    Marta Balaga, Variety, 15 June 2023
  • The dancers were videotaped and shown to the animators, who used their movements as references for the show’s creatures.
    John Yoon, New York Times, 8 Mar. 2024
  • So their avatars are rendered in black and white, which required a great deal of rotoscoping on the part of the animators.
    Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 2 May 2020
  • And yet, it was made in 6 months as opposed to the usual 6 years, with 50 animators instead of hundreds.
    Shanti Escalante-De Mattei, ARTnews.com, 2 Sep. 2024
  • After that, Drew hired more than 100 animators and video artists with very different styles to bring the footage and audio to life.
    Abraham Josephine Riesman, Rolling Stone, 8 Apr. 2024
  • And while it was widely believed to be the last film from the famed animator, Miyazaki appears to have other ideas.
    Andrew Webster, The Verge, 17 Oct. 2023
  • People like me become animators to not be in the spotlight and to not have attention on them.
    Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 Aug. 2023
  • But Riley wasn’t the only one who had feelings for the beloved character — so did all the animators.
    Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 22 June 2024
  • The court awarded copyright to the animators in a single case, the design of the film's Japanese spaceship.
    Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 31 May 2018
  • The walls also featured paintings of the film’s dwarfs, which were created by the film’s animators.
    Summer Lin, Los Angeles Times, 24 June 2024
  • Then, the key animators and other animators have to bring that to the final stage.
    Michaela Zee, Variety, 28 Sep. 2024
  • The author, who co-directed the film with animator Peter Baynton, spent two years working with the team over Zoom to get the film right.
    Emily Zemler, Los Angeles Times, 1 Mar. 2023

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