How does a large animation studio like Pixar maintain consistency when dozens of people with varying artistic tastes are working on a single project?

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How does a large animation studio like Pixar maintain consistency when dozens of people with varying artistic tastes are working on a single project?

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For visual consistency – art director, production designer in the visdev and character/costume/prop/sets creation stage. Dept supervisors for each dept ie animation, layout, cfx, fx, lighting, etc

Vfx supe and prod designer for lighting (along w lighting dept supes)

And director of course although the director relies on each individual dept to maintain consistency although they have final buy off.

Here’s a good place to get a brief rundown of the process at Disney animation (Pixar is prob similar but different in their own ways):

https://www.disneyanimation.com/process/