Artists and technicians who create moving images by drawing or using computers to make drawings, characters, or objects appear to move.
From 'animate' (from Latin 'animatus' meaning 'alive') plus '-or' meaning 'one who does.' The profession emerged in the early 20th century with the invention of cinema.
Disney animators pioneered the 'twelve principles of animation' in the 1930s, and those same hand-drawn techniques still influence 3D computer animation today—traditional animation wisdom shaped modern digital art.
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