Karen Disher
Karen Beth Disher (born August 7, 1972) is an American film director and storyboard artist in films, TV, cartoons and video games. She was an artist at Blue Sky Studios, an in-house studio at 20th Century Fox Animation (now 20th Century Animation). Life and career. Disher studied traditional 2D animation at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts. After graduation, she joined MTV Animation as a layout artist on "Beavis and Butt-head". She then designed the main characters and was the supervising director on the hit series "Daria". Meanwhile, she directed two TV feature-length installments  in the series, "Is It Fall Yet?" in 2000 and the follow-up "Is It College Yet?" in 2002. She then joined Blue Sky Studios, where she worked as a story artist on many animated films, including "Robots", "", "Horton Hears a Who!", "", "The Peanuts Movie", and "Ferdinand". She was also the head of story on "Rio", and directed a short animated film "Surviving Sid" and a television special "", both part of the "Ice Age" franchise. In addition to storyboarding and directing, she lent her voice to some minor characters in the films she worked on, most notably to Scratte in  Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs. In 2018, Disher was tapped to co-direct Blue Sky's first feature-length musical, "Foster", based on an original story written by Disher, co-director Steve Martino, and Tim Federle, with songs to be written by Benj Pasek and Justin Paul. Personal life. In 2001, Disher married Robert Todd Partington, then a supervisor of computer graphics and animation technologies for MTV Networks.