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 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 ...

The beloved Palo Alto, Calif., creature — who was the model for Donkey, the iconic character voiced by Eddie Murphy in the animated film Shrek — has died at the ripe old age of 30. Kiratli ...