How to Use animator in a Sentence

animator

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  • Which means that the animators don’t have to constantly sculpt the clay.
    — Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Oct. 2024
  • He and the animators circled around the television and cued their projects on the screen.
    — Sameer Rao, baltimoresun.com, 11 July 2019
  • In-between animators earn around 200 yen per drawing — less than $2.
    — Eric Margolis, Vox, 2 July 2019
  • The medium was pretty brand-new, so there was a lot of experimentation, as the animators and directors were figuring out what worked.
    — Todd Martens, latimes.com, 9 July 2019
  • The vintage-looking cards are based on sketches by Matt Cruickshank, an animator and artist on the Google Doodles team.
    — Currie Engel, Time, 3 July 2019
  • Eventually the project was handed over to animator, sometimes voice actor and first time feature director Josh Cooley to bring it home.
    — Lindsey Bahr, Detroit Free Press, 20 June 2019
  • Price, a research economist and consultant for animator and studio owner Walt Disney.
    — Jim Webster, Twin Cities, 29 June 2019
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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 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
  • Four years ago, animators Adam and Craig Malamut were thinking about what came next.
    — Mark Peikert, IndieWire, 15 Sep. 2024
  • Joe’s in Santa Cruz, Calif., and hopes to become an animator.
    — Kelsey Ables, Washington Post, 19 Aug. 2022
  • From the ’70s through the ’80s, my father wrote music for films by Paul Fierlinger, a brilliant animator and Czech émigré.
    — Elizabeth Isadora Gold, Longreads, 2 Oct. 2020
  • In the end, 36 people died — many of them young animators — and 32 more were left with serious burns and other injuries.
    — Julia Mio Inuma, Washington Post, 25 Jan. 2024
  • The images are an animator’s dream – and a West Coaster’s nightmare.
    — Julia Daye, Sacramento Bee, 1 Feb. 2024
  • These videos would have taken hours to produce by a real film crew or animators.
    — Maxwell Zeff / Gizmodo, Quartz, 16 Feb. 2024
  • One of our friends is an animator and video-game maker named David OReilly.
    — Vulture, 13 Apr. 2022

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