My father told me over Skype that political freedom is starting to be felt in Cuba. I asked him what he was referring to.
“Animators are dancing in very frivolous ways,” he said. “Patriotism is dead, and all people care about is money.”
Change in Cuba
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I might help your US (and Canadian?) readers to know that ‘animation’ is used in (mostly?) European tourist resort hotels to refer to young people working for the hotel whose job it is to socialize with guests, organize fun leisure activities (for different age groups) and generally help guests relax and have a good time. I hadn’t heard ‘animators’ usually something like ‘animation team (member)’ but it’s used in some languages.
I was going to have a wiki link but there’s no English article (though British people use the term for sure). I think it’s probably originally from French but that’s a guess.
I’ve never heard of such a thing in the US but I wouldn’t be surprised if it exists (and may be called animation for all I know…. I’m very out of touch).
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Right, I haven’t considered that people might not now.
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Yes, when I first read the post I thought, “why just the animators? Why not any of the other artists?” And then I wondered how anybody could tell they were animators or even artists in general, which was when I realized I was missing something. :p I’ve heard the terms “animateur” and “animatrice,” though, now that I think about it.
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What does the word animators mean to everybody? I only know this one meaning of people who entertain tourists at a resort.
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Animation is the process by which artists called animators create moving pictures. Any animated films will have generally voice actors, rather than actors that appear on the screen, though there are some 2D-animated exceptions and a lot of recent 3D-animated exceptions (the recent trend is something called computer generated imagery, or CGI, a kind of animation used mainly for special effects or objects that we can’t get ahold of in real life). Cartoons are examples of 2D-animation, while Pixar and Disney/Pixar movies are examples of 3D-animation. 2D-animation was once done solely by hand–now much of it is done on the computer. Wiki probably has a better explanation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animation
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I am a volunteer multilingual animatrice every year for Festival International de Louisiane. This takes place in US, although it is a little bit French.
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I work occasionally as an animatrice in tourist industry in Louisiana. The word animatrice (or animateur) is used.
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