NOTE
The n in "noogai3" is meant to be lowercase, as this is the official spelling of the name.

noogai3, also known as "The Animator", is the titular overarching protagonist of the Animator vs. Animation series. He is portrayed by Alan Becker in every installment where his likeness is visible.

noogai3 is the creator of victim, The Chosen One, The Dark Lord, The Second Coming, and many other programs/animations. He served as the main antagonist of the first four animations due to constantly fighting against the stick figures he creates, or in victim's case, torturing them. This lasts until Animator vs. Animation 4, where he understands that stick figures are sentient beings and finally makes peace with them by working a deal out with The Second Coming in exchange for teaching him how to draw.

Appearance

noogai3 is a slim Japanese American man with fair skin. He has dark hair cut short and is cleanly shaved. He always wears glasses with black rectangular frames. At home he wears T-shirts, loose trousers, and socks. He sometimes wears a black wristwatch.

Personality

In his teenage years, noogai3 viewed stick figures as nothing more than a game who lack sentience or awareness of the pain he causes them, he had no trouble making victim go through numerous torture methods on a constant basis for nothing more than the satisfaction it brings him to be able to "play god" with a creation of his own.

This not only shows that noogai3 finds sadistic joy derived from the agony he caused victim, but also suggested a innate disgust and/or hatred against stick figures in general given how he never once hesitated to brutalize victim in ways that would be considered to be "inhumane" to any living creature or bothered to let up on the torture, going through it for nine months straight without getting bored until victim became apathetic and unresponsive due to the repeated torment breaking his spirit.

Another interpretation is that noogai3 didn't fully understand or was aware yet that his stick figures he created were sentient and able to feel emotions. After the repeated creation of and deletion of victim, noogai3 performed many different tests and experiments trying to see if he can replicate what happened before, to figure out what is causing his stick figure to become self-aware and sentient, and how it reacted to different stimuli and responses. He was also completely unaware that each time he recreated, deleted, and recreated victim, that he brought victim back from the dead with all his memories of his various experiences in intact.

After victim managed to escape his computer for good, noogai3 decided to forget about him and instead moved on to a bigger challenge to satiate his boredom or curiosity, by creating a stick figure who could actually fight back. (Could actually take place before victim left) After naming them "The Chosen One", he immediately regretted this action due to him destroying his computer, showing that he only cared for his personal belongings, refusing to acknowledge that his own misfortune is a result of his bad karma coming back to haunt him.

He is also opportunistic, since after capturing The Chosen One, noogai3 sees how useful his powers are to his personal benefit by using the stick figure as an enslaved pop-up blocker for four years straight without ever considering how he essentially is no different than a slave owner. He also has no problem using stick figures against their own kind, as when he created "The Dark Lord" for the sole purpose of destroying The Chosen One, and only bothered to help him as long as he remained loyal to his goal, but still didn't care for him anymore than his previous creations and had no interest of whether or not he survived or not.

Another fault of noogai3 is that he's unable to see the bigger picture or realize how intelligent stick figures actually are. His neglect is what allowed victim to escape confinement when he was occupied with something else, and is why he didn't anticipate that The Chosen One and The Dark Lord would recognize him as a shared enemy due to his apathetic nature towards them. This would result in them destroying his computer completely, and their rampage following this would severely damage the internet and unknowingly ruin victim's new life, eventually setting him on a path to obtain retribution against his creator and fellow creation.

After getting a new computer, noogai3 has become more apprehensive of using/playing with stick figures due to him not wanting the past to repeat itself. Over the course of three years, he becomes less paranoid due to the calm and simply decides to only work on his animation skills, but after seeing his latest animation, "The Second Coming", playing around with four other stick figures on his desktop, he decides not to take any chances and deletes them all immediately, until only the orange one remains. However, after The Second Coming fights back and tries to use his own animations to destroy the computer, noogai3 is taken aback by the fact that his creation is specifically making his own drawings better than he could. This causes him to hesitate for the first time ever against a stick figure.

This, combined with the realization that The Second Coming can talk and thus, is self-aware with emotions, causes noogai3 to finally reflect upon his past actions and that The Second Coming only retaliated against him because he was destroying what he loved. After refreshing his friends, the two come to an agreement and work together towards creating animations from now on, greatly increasing noogai3's skills and use of time.

noogai3's change of heart continued when he answered Yellow's plea for help for The Chosen One. After that, he and the Stick Gang have been on good terms, often playing games together. The Stick Gang have destroyed parts of ALANSPC by accident on many occasions, and have twice donated absurdly large amounts of money to fundraisers. It can be assumed that noogai3 does not punish the Stick Gang very severely for these misdeeds, as they would not continue to do them if they received severe punishments.

Powers & Abilities

• Life Creation: Many of noogai3's drawings come to life, sometimes unintentionally. He is specialized in drawing stick figures.

• Object Manipulation: noogai3 can control or pick up anything he chooses on his PC or his phone, including the stick figures too.

• Invulnerability: His cursor is invulnerable to most attacks, except for ViraBot's virus abilities, as shown when it was unaffected by The Chosen One's laser.

• Competent Fighter: Despite only using a cursor, he can seemingly hold his own in fights, which is shown in Animator vs Animation 8, when he faces the Dark Lord.

• Unlimited Movement: He can move the cursor freely to anywhere he wants.

• Riding & Flight: He can use his cursor to assist the stick figures in flying. Also helping The Chosen One against The Dark Lord by letting him ride on the cursor briefly.

• Mouse Expertise: He has seemingly great precision when clicking or dragging.

• Weapon Crafting: noogai3 can create his own weapons, blockages or even animations by drawing them.

• Programs Assist: noogai3 can use his programs for assistance.

• Program Termination: noogai3 can use Task Manager to stop (delete) certain programs/enemies with ease.

• Entity Remover: noogai3 can use Quick Keys to select and delete certain Adobe Flash Player entities.

• Cursor Restoration: noogai3 can revive the cursor if destroyed, but this takes some time.

• Text Speech: noogai3 can communicate with Second Coming by using the the text box tool in Adobe Animate.

• Typing: noogai3 can type really fast and has the ability to navigate through his computer only using keyboard. When Second Coming destroys the cursor in Animator vs Animation 4, He was able to restore the cursor using Keyboard.

Weaknesses

noogai3's main weakness is his lack of care for the other computer programs.

For example, in Animator vs. Animation 3, he showed that he did not care about what happened to any of his computer programs while they were being beaten. He did show care for AIM in Animator vs. Animation 2, but this could have only been because of the fact that his AOL chat bar would have closed if AOL Instant Messenger died.

Another one of his weaknesses is that he can not fight his own battles very well. As seen in Animator vs Animation 2, The Chosen One easily defeated noogai3 in one on one combat. But as time goes on, he became quite a competent fighter, even managing to hold his own when facing The Dark Lord in AvA 8.

Another weakness is that he can't repair his windows if they are destroyed. When his cursor is destroyed, he can't fight until he gets it back. If the Windows menu has also been destroyed, as seen in The Virus, he cannot regain his mouse and is unable to fight.

Finally, noogai3 seemingly cannot always control his own ability to give individual life to his drawings, as shown when he unintentionally brought a Hangman drawing to life.

Appearances

• Animator vs. Animation 2 (mentioned)

• Animator vs. Animation 4 (debut)

• Animator vs. Animation season 2

  • "The Virus"

  • "The Showdown"

• Actual Shorts season 1

  • "New Wallpaper"

  • "Feel Better"

• Animator vs. Animation season 3

  • "Victim"

Quotes

Trivia

• The name "noogai3" first appeared in Animator vs. Animation 2, leaving him to be known only as The Animator in the prequel.

• noogai3 dislikes pop-ups, as he uses The Chosen One as a pop-up blocker.

• Despite being the series' namesake, he rarely appears in the series.

• Somehow, he manages to lie his cursor flat in The Showdown, and move it inwards and outwards to tie victim up with a string during their first battle.

• noogai3, programmer021, and victim are the only characters in the Animator vs. Animation franchise to have their name canonically spelt with a lowercase first letter.

• He is the only character in "The Showdown," to not be featured in the thumbnail.