How to Use animator in a Sentence
animator
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The piece looks like it was dreamed up by a Pixar animator with a bath-salts habit.
—David Frese, kansascity.com, 28 June 2017
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Once the match was achieved, the frames were sent back to the animators to polish each one.
—Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 7 Jan. 2026
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There is no earthly reason why the animators had to go so hard on this show.
—Ollie Barder, Forbes, 20 Jan. 2025
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And not to feel that the animators had to overperform it, as such.
—Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 4 May 2026
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Because of the budget, many of the animators were very young and straight out of school.
—Jamie Lang, Variety, 8 Jan. 2025
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What the animators do with the ocean and the storms is remarkable.
—Bill Goodykoontz, Arizona Republic, 26 Nov. 2024
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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
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These videos would have taken hours to produce by a real film crew or animators.
—Maxwell Zeff / Gizmodo, Quartz, 16 Feb. 2024
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Meriem Bennani is an animator and an artist.
—Paula Aceves, Vulture, 1 Dec. 2025
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Pixar animators worked overtime on this one bringing the pond and the critters and humans to life.
—Randy Myers, Mercury News, 4 Mar. 2026
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Working with a larger studio has been a great change for the rising animator.
—Blake Simons, IndieWire, 12 Aug. 2025
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Then again, the stealthy mothership could just be artistic license on the part of the animator.
—Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 8 Mar. 2018
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That's where people show their work to the director and the leads and fellow animators.
—Susannah Hutcheson, USA TODAY, 5 June 2018
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At the time of her Disney trip, Pratt wanted to be an animator.
—Mercedes Leguizamon, CNN, 22 Mar. 2018
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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
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The actor gives props to the animators at Titmouse for bringing this scene, and the episode at large, to life.
—Nick Romano, Entertainment Weekly, 3 Dec. 2025
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The animators have managed to make wet fur feel tactile and show the headlights of cars bouncing off other cars.
—Mark Kennedy, kansascity, 14 Dec. 2017
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Fans will get to see the challenges and discoveries during the project and hear from the animators.
—Leia Mendoza, Variety, 13 Nov. 2025
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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
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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
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Then, the key animators and other animators have to bring that to the final stage.
—Michaela Zee, Variety, 28 Sep. 2024
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Many of our best animators have left to make feature films, a couple of them winning Oscars.
—Mike Reiss, WSJ, 25 May 2018
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Also, at the end of the day, Ukrainian animators want to be recognized for their skill.
—Marta Balaga, Variety, 15 June 2023
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The animator tries it, changes it, undoes it, and little by little the character comes alive.
—Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 20 June 2026
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Russell has said over the years that the legendary animator-filmmaker liked to ask him questions to get a sense of how a young mind works.
—Michael Cavna, chicagotribune.com, 4 May 2017
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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
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Sumiye, a native of Hawaii, is an artist, animator and filmmaker.
—Matthew Carey, Deadline, 16 July 2026
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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
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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
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Duwaji, an illustrator and animator, wore a funnel-neck brown coat with brown lace-up boots.
—Rosemary Feitelberg, Footwear News, 1 Jan. 2026
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