Kevan Shorey works as an Animator at PDI/DreamWorks Animation Studios, a position he took while working on the feature film Shrek 2 and since then has gone on to work on films including: How To Train Your Dragon, Gift Of The Night Fury, Megamind, Madagascar 2, Shrek 3, Shrek Spooky Stories, Megamind: Button of Doom.

As an only child growing up in a smallish village in Wales, Kevan tended to gravitate to activities that required imagination. He spent his time reading a lot and drawing a lot.

Kevan also used played Lego and computer games. He would become invested in the worlds and the characters that he was experiencing at the time, expanding on their stories in his head and externalising them through drawing.

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Sometimes an animated character will come to a sudden and complete stop when either entering a scene or an action. It did not look natural when an animator played it back. Back at the days Walt Disney concerned himself about this problem. "Every halt has its reasons” he said to his staff of animators. "Any action leads to an action." he urged them to understand.

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There are mainly two approaches to animation that are used by Animators. The first approach mostly known as Straight Ahead Action, because the animation is actually working straight ahead right from the first drawing in the scene. The second approach is the Pose to Pose method, because each pose in an animation is planned in advanced in order to create a more believable staging action.

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Animation Staging covers many areas and assumed as a general principle, which goes back far in the theater. It's purpose, however is clear: its the presentation of an idea that is clear to the viewer and has no mistake of what it is shown. Action is staged so it can be understood by the audience, so is the personality which can be recognized by an individual, or a mood that can affect the person watching. Each of these communicating to the fullest with the audience when is executed properly on the stage.

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