[1] She later became a storyboard artist for Warner Bros., Marvel and Disney Television, and variously worked as a production designer, art director and co-producer".
Due to her connections with Kricfalusi, she was offered a job as a painter at Spümcø to work on The Ren & Stimpy Show on its second season; she migrated to Games Animation with other background painters including Bill Wray after Kricfalusi's firing, working sporadically on the third and fourth seasons.
[8][2] In 1992, Jenson was the art director for FernGully: The Last Rainforest,[2][9] and the production designer for Computer Warriors: The Adventure Begins and Playroom.
[5][6] Jenson recalled her experience being brought into Shrek, and eventually tapped to direct, as follows: For a long time, the movie didn't know what it wanted to be.
Along with Andrew Adamson, who stayed on as director, we started pulling little pieces together out of what remained, and part of the way through, Jeffrey decided that I should be directing.
[6] According to Adamson, the co-directors mutually decided to split the work in half, so the crew could at least know whom to go to with specific questions about the film's sequences: "We both ended up doing a lot of everything", "We're both kinda control freaks, and we both wanted to do everything.
The film tells of a teenager who "comes of age using magical powers to defend her family when the opposing forces of light and darkness threaten to divide her kingdom.