No animated show has as high a budget for writers. This is because we do a lot of rewrites and we hire the best writers. I don't get involved with the writing process too often. There's about 50 people at Gracie Films. A lot more overseas in Korea.
All TV animation has some aspect of production overseas in Asia.
The best part is working with the artists and actors. The worst part is going to meetings that deal with flows in production, price situations, and meetings that don't deal with anything creative. But it's not really that bad. What I enjoy doing most is drawing. Start off with going over storyboards with storyboard artists, meeting with layout artists, watching retakes of shows, and going to production meetings.