When Patti Burke accepted her position last month as the new head of computer-animation powerhouse PDI/DreamWorks, she knew dealing with wacky characters was part of the job description. Try Shrek, ...

Nervous animators still are waiting to hear whether they’ll be among the 250 or so DreamWorks Animation staffers to be pink-slipped at the company’s Glendale campus. Studio officials say it’s their ...