“We shot video of him moving around and did a lot of drawings — he ... out what makes a donkey a donkey, so it was really helpful to watch Perry move.” When “Shrek” won an Academy ...

Perry the donkey, who lived just two miles off campus and was beloved by many Stanford community members, died in early ...

filming and drawing Perry at the park. The team, led by Canadian-American animator Rex Grignon, was preparing to animate the character Donkey in the first Shrek movie, and used Perry as a visual ...

Known as the inspiration for the character Donkey, voiced by comedy legend Eddie Murphy in the 2001 animated classic “Shrek,” Perry ... for the film and to draw real donkeys in person.

In 1999, animator Rex Grignon was tasked with designing Donkey, Shrek’s chatty but good-natured ... Grignon then brought his team to draw Perry and watch him trot along. Kiratli, who didn ...