How do animated shows keep a consistent art/animation style when as many as dozens of people are animating it?

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I’ve always wondered this. If there are x amount of people working on an animation project, how are they able to keep their animation styles, and even art styles, so incredibly consistent?

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Some people can only draw in their own, personal style. Other people may have their own style but are also very good at closely following another style if they have a reference.

So the people who make the original art make a lot of different reference poses and make annotations to describe what details they think are important. And people who are good at copying styles follow those descriptions.

There are also people who are REALLY good at it and they are charged with making “key” frames of animation that the eye is most likely to see. There are other, slightly-less-skilled people charged with making “tween” frames in between the key frames. Tween frames tend to be blurred or have exaggerated features so it’s not as important to make sure they are completely on-style.

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