In 1999, animator Rex Grignon was tasked with designing Donkey, Shrek’s chatty but good-natured sidekick. His team had completed the character’s basic design but still needed a model for how a ...

A real-life donkey who served as the animation model for the character Donkey in the “Shrek” franchise died on Thursday at the age of 30 at his home in California. Pericles, affectionately ...

Perry the Donkey, widely believed to be the inspiration behind Eddie Murphy's "Donkey" character in Shrek, has passed away at age 30. Palo Alto Online reported that the miniature donkey succumbed ...

A donkey sanctuary in the San Francisco Bay Area is mourning the loss of Perry, popularly known for serving as the model for Eddie Murphy's character Donkey in the "Shrek" animated movie.

He was the model for the Donkey character voiced by Eddie Murphy in the 2001 animated movie “Shrek.” At Perry’s 30th birthday party earlier this week, more than 200 neighbors in Palo Alto ...

A new trailer confirms that Zendaya will voice Shrek's teenager daughter Felicia in "Shrek 5." Zendaya joins the cast alongside returners Mike Myers, Eddie Murphy and Cameron Diaz. "Shrek 5" is ...

(CNN) - The donkey used to model the character of Donkey in the movie “Shrek” has died. Perry the donkey was 30 years old. The Barron Park Donkey Project in the San Francisco Bay Area says ...

a pure Shrek lover - this new animation NO BABY NO.' 'I’m not a fan of the Shrek redesign/model imho I appreciate the more cartoony style they are going for, but I was a really big fan of how ...

An X User posted: "I’m not a fan of the Shrek redesign/model imho I appreciate the more cartoony style they are going for, but I was a really big fan of how ugly and more “realistic” the old ...

Fans saw Shrek's new face, but not all are believers. With the release of the first trailer of "Shrek 5" on Feb. 27, the internet is already up in arms about the changes to the animation style in ...