Shrek’s chatty but good-natured sidekick. His team had completed the character’s basic design but still needed a model for how a real-life donkey moved. At the time, Grignon’s wife happened ...

Perry, whose full name was Pericles, was born in New York City in 1994 and quickly rose to local fame when animators working on the 2001 animated classic Shrek adopted him as their real-life model ...

and it seems that Dreamworks may have also taken some inspiration from real life. Fans of Shrek have been flocking to Copenhagen after videos showing the city's Grundtvig's Church began going ...