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. Cartoonists and animators initially draw on paper, acetate or Bristol board using pens, pencils, markers, crayons, paints, transparent washes, and shading sheets. Work Environment Animators mainly work in the motion picture and television industries but are valuable for the advertising industry too. Cartoons are usually associated with newspaper comics or with children's entertainment, but are equally, if not better more, effective in publications as well as in advertising.