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

Question

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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Answer 1

There are style guides for animators which have rules to what the characters look like, how they move, behave, etc. Then there’s other reference materials like concept art, storyboards, or even previous animations. You can see in old Disney movies that they even reused animation guides and just changed the characters costumes.