It sounds very interesting but how do we decide who is who?

Who could handle the compositing and who has the hardware to render out such a project? We would need a project manager.

I've seen quite a few incredible modelers on this site but there doesn't seem to be a lot of everybody else.

I'd be happy to help by donating computer time for rendering.

Here's a question for the PRO cgi people in the industry;
Who has the responsibility of looking at a scene and deciding how to break it down into render layers, including mattes, mental ray setting, etc...? Are there standard worksheets that are filled out that show which elements go into which layers and which setting to use for each?