Phyllis Smith

You have to understand that when you're a voice actor on an animated film, you're really just a tiny little piece of this huge process. And when you finally get to see the finished product and see all of the wonderful work that the animators & the designers & the writers did to make your character stand out, it's just so touching, so humbling.

American Actress

Michael Arndt

The great thing about the animation process is that is goes from, I write the lines, it goes to the actors, the actors bring a whole world to that, they bring the characters to life, then it goes to the animators, then it goes to the editor who cuts it together, and then you screen it and it goes back through the system again.

American Writer

Larry the Cable Guy

Cars' has been a godsend. I mean, I get paid to talk into a mic. Honestly, I had no idea it would become as big as it did. When I first got the part of Mater, it was actually a small part. I did the voicing for it, though, and the animators liked it so much they rewrote the original script so that Mater could be in it more.

American Comedian

Seth Green

I mean, we make a 15-minute show that's incredibly silly, even though all of our scenic designers, puppet builders. animators, everybody that works on the show take their work very seriously. So somebody saying that we'd even be in contention for a very respectable award is really nice.

American Actor

Travis Knight

When you allow an animator to focus on a portion of the film and really understand the arc of the scene, what's happening with the characters, they can make choices all along the way that reinforce the main points of the scene. They really get to know what's happening.

American Producer

Andy Serkis

I've been told that some guy wrote something like, 'Andy Serkis does everything, animators do nothing.' Of course I never in a million years said that, wouldn't ever say that. It's not within my understanding of filmmaking to ever say anything like that.

English Actor

Dan Castellaneta

It's a different way of getting across an emotion. You're trying to get it across to the animator because the animator is inspired by the voicetrack in terms of how to animate the character.

Colin Trevorrow

I think living things can recognize the movement of other living things, and all the best animators in the world can't quite capture that something.

American Director

Gore Verbinski

My respect for animators and animation directors has gone way, way up and it is just not something you can phone in.

John Lasseter

Short films really helped me develop as a story teller, animator, and as a director.

An animator in films or games is a creative artist who brings characters or effects to life.

Creative Role

Understanding the term 'animator' also means recognizing their technical skill with software and tools.

Technical Skill

Animators work in various media, not just in cartoons, including special effects in movies.

Not Just Cartoons

An animator, in a social context, energizes groups, often using humor or enthusiasm.

Energetic Presence

Unlike a performer, an animator engages with the audience to get them active and involved.

Not a Performer

The word 'animator' can be used casually to describe a lively person in a social setting.

Casual Conversations

 I'll give you an example here. It's basically the idea of, you wear a leotard, and they put some reflective markers on your body, and instead of using cameras, there're infrared sensors around a volume, and those infrared sensors track the three-dimensional position of those markers in real time. And then animators can take the data of the motion of those markers

Ed Ulbrich: How Benjamin...

 was a significant departure from the cinematic realism that was popular in animated films at the time. The choice to use limited animation techniques was originally made for budgetary reasons, but it became a signature style that influenced many future generations of animators. In this stylistic approach,

Making a TED-Ed Lesson:...

 that feeling of deep strangeness and deep lack of understanding of how this thing was constructed that seems to be presented around me. Because it's impossible to know where these things are coming from. Like, who is making them? Some of them appear to be made of teams of professional animators.

The nightmare videos of...

 is that no part of the movie is considered finished until the entire movie wraps. Partway through one production, an animator drew a character with an arched eyebrow that suggested a mischievous side. When the director saw that drawing, he thought it was great. It was beautiful, but he said,

Linda Hill: How to...

 As a scientist, I love observing the natural world. But as a cell biologist, I'm much more interested in understanding the natural world at a much, much smaller scale. I'm a molecular animator, and I work with other researchers to create visualizations of molecules that are so small,

The wonders of the...

 understand that we need to save our planet for future generations because our descendants might not have anything left that makes me even more passionate to save it from destruction another way I spread the word is through animation I learned about when animator was when I

How to start your own...

 Chris I tried to get my head around how vast our Earth is. Logan The lesson only reaches the students in that room. What would happen if we captured it? It's a toothed wheel. What if pro animators and visualization artists could bring that lesson to life?

TED-Ed YouTube Channel...

 It's also an invitation to animators. We are looking for talented animators to get involved, submit their reels and help us animate these incredible lessons. Right now, there's a gifted educator somewhere out there delivering a life-changing lesson.

Introducing TED-Ed:...

 with his army of brilliant animators and his imagination knew that we could really bring it to life we wanted to make sure that we really had a vocabulary that Gabe's the younger global audience and the stories we're

Behind the Scenes of...

 in the process even the paleontologists were learning a thing or two when working with the animators and the designers I was able to see my skeletal