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The only person for whom making Elio was their dream was Molina, it was supposed to his personal passion project granted to him by Pixar as a reward for making Coco which was successful.
For everyone else for the most part I guess it is just a job, but obviously Pixar can select for the most committed people who will work on whatever project with maximum effort as long as it means they get to work at Pixar.