I don't think the article makes this clear but animators are the people who are responsible to create the frames between key frames designed by the actual desig

I don't think the article makes this clear but animators are the people who are responsible to create the frames between key frames designed by the actual designers. This also means that the person described in the article is competing with studios in China and other asian countries that do the same work for very cheap prices because they have access to cheap labor.