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

Not quite for modern CGI

For CGI there is a team that creates each character in the computer. They design it and program it.

But then the characters can be animated to do what the director wants. So someone directs the scene and chooses what the character does. They don’t animate each character separately and then put them together in the scene.

It used to be that each character was drawn separately and then layered onto the scene. And there was a separate team for each character. There would be a single person dedicated to a single detail like the sparkles of a magic wand.