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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Basically any creative endeavour with multiple people working on it needs to have a single person in charge of the artistic direction of the project.

That person is referred to as a director. In animation, the director is the one who supervises the entire process – concept sketches for how the characters look, storyboards for how major scenes will look, and also things like what the voice actors sound like and what the music sounds like.