Karen Beth Disher is an American film director and storyboard artist. Disher is best known for her work at MTV Animation, where she was the chief character designer and supervising director for the animated series Daria (1997–2002) following her previous work as a layout artist for Beavis and Butt-Head (1993–1997).
In 2018, Disher was tapped to co-direct Blue Sky's first feature-length musical, "Foster",[5] 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. This project was cancelled due to the closure of Blue Sky in 2021.[6]
Disher joined Spire Animation Studios in 2021 as Creative Director, Development and is a founding member of the studio's brain trust, the "Creative Cadre".[7][8]
Personal life
In 2001, Disher married Robert Todd Partington, then a supervisor of computer graphics and animation technologies for MTV Networks.[1]
^"Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs - Production Notes"(PDF). Visual Hollywood. Archived from the original(PDF) on March 1, 2014. Retrieved October 29, 2013. Karen Disher, who heads the film's story department, voices Scratte. But Disher's responsibilities extended beyond her vocal work. Unlike the film's main story, scripted by Michael Berg & Peter Ackerman and Mike Reiss and Yoni Brenner, from a story by Jason Carter Eaton, the story department, working closely with Saldanha, created the Scrat-Scratte scenes. Disher and her team embraced the task of inventing new challenges for the beloved Scrat. "Working on the Scrat-Scratte scenes is the purest form of animation," she notes.