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means Someone who creates the illusion of movement by crafting and sequencing individual images, bringing drawings, models, or digital figures to life on screen.

from From Latin 'animare' — to give breath or life to — itself rooted in 'anima,' meaning breath, soul, or spirit. The same root gives us 'animal' and 'animate.' So an animator, etymologically, is a breather of souls into still things — a job description that sounds mystical because the Romans basically meant it that way.