An animator or a cartoonist is basically an illustrator who draws pictures and cartoons to amuse, educate and persuade people. Some cartoonists work as part of a team with others who create the idea or story and write the captions. Nature of Work Cartoonists draw illustrations for newspapers, books, magazines, greeting cards, movies, television shows, civic organisations and private businesses. Most editorial cartoonists are constantly commenting on society by drawing pictures that are usually funny, but often with a satirical edge. Cartoonists often depict famous politicians so they are often portraitists too.
Comic strips tell jokes or short stories with a series of pictures.
Animators also draw individual pictures, but they must draw many more for a moving cartoon. Each picture varies only a little from the ones before and after it in the series. Computers also help animators to create special effects. Initially all cartoonists and animators translate ideas onto paper or film in order to communicate the ideas to an audience. The ideas may be original or directly related to the news of the day, to an article, or to a new product.