Animation Appreciation Thread #14

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>>268

They're businesses that have no "choice" but to market the animator position as that of an artists. They're not artists. Animators use their craft to help in creating other people's works of art and entertainment, mainly the director's and screenwriter's. In an ideal work the screenwriter director is the author of the work of art. In real life, this is not feasible, so work is distributed to ateliers.

If you want a clear analogy to this, the Sistine Chapel paintings and tapestries are the work of Raphael as art, but it wasn't he alone that "constructed" them.