Vicky Jenson
Victoria "Vicky" Jenson is an animation director at DreamWorks Animation and Disney,[1] most notable for having co-directed Shrek, the first film to win an Academy Award for Best Animated Feature.[2]
Jenson "started as a background artist at Hanna-Barbera in 1977, became a storyboard artist for Warner Bros., Marvel and Disney Television, and variously worked as a production designer, art director and co-producer".[2] She got one of her earliest starts working for Filmation doing the storyboard backgrounds on the He-Man and the Masters of the Universe cartoon series in the early 1980s. She also worked on Mighty Mouse in the 1980s and the The Ren & Stimpy Show in the early 1990s,[2] and was the art director for FernGully: The Last Rainforest in 1992,[2] and the production designer for Computer Warriors: The Adventure Begins and Playroom. She began working for DreamWorks as a production designer and story artist for The Road to El Dorado in 2000,[2] and co-directed Shrek (with Andrew Adamson),[2] and Shark Tale (with Bibo Bergeron and Rob Letterman),[3]
In 2009, she finished her first live-action directorial work for the Alexis Bledel-starring comedy, Post Grad.[1]
Filmography
Film
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1985 | The Secret of the Sword | storyboard artist | |
| 1987 | Rock Odyssey | background artist | |
| Slam Dance | storyboard artist | ||
| Pinocchio and the Emperor of the Night | storyboard artist | ||
| 1988 | She's Having a Baby | storyboard artist | |
| Pound Puppies and the Legend of Big Paw | designer | ||
| 1990 | Playroom | production designer | |
| 1992 | FernGully: The Last Rainforest | storyboard artist/art director/layout artist/layout designer | |
| 2000 | The Road to El Dorado | storyboard artist/additional production designer/production designer | |
| Chicken Run | additional story | ||
| 2001 | Shrek | director | |
| 2003 | Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas | additional story artist | |
| 2004 | Shark Tale | director | |
| 2005 | Cerebral Print: The Secret Files | Actress | |
| 2008 | Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa | thanks to everyone at DreamWorks Animation and PDI/DreamWorks who supported this production: development | |
| 2009 | Post Grad | director |
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Vicky Jenson bio @ IMDb.com retrieved 31 October 2008.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 Yoram Allon, Del Cullen, Hannah Patterson, Contemporary North American film directors: a Wallflower critical guide (2002), p. 2.
- ↑ Tom Sito, Drawing the Line: The Untold Story of the Animation Unions from Bosko to Bart Simpson (2006), p. 27.
External links
Vicky Jenson at the Internet Movie Database
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