Curiously, I am currently reading a book on the origins of WW1 which discusses the fallacy of considering nations as monolithic entities with single personalities and intentions. It then goes in to all the major powers involved to discuss, so who did shape its foreign policy and what were the balancing internal forces?

"Design team" is hardly limited to film. Children's picture books are not the only literature where the artist is a full co-creator of the general effect with the writer. Farmer Giles of Ham, to which Baynes's contribution was enthusiastically hailed by Tolkien. In the early 1960s, some stories by Jack Vance won the Hugo largely, it's believed, thanks to the contributions made by the illustrations by Jack Gaughan.