Do animated movies have teams dedicated to each character?

Question

Let’s take Inside Out for example.

In every scene, you can watch each emotion having different reactions and build-ups to their next piece of dialogue. I’d imagine that would be a nightmare for animation teams that are designing each scene.

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Answer 1

I saw an interview about the making of Tom and Jerry, and they had different animators for different bits. One was really good at giving things mass, so they had him animate when Tom was carrying an entire horse, for instance.