"There were a couple of iterations before Dora was Dora. She was Tess. She was almost a motion capture. She had a little ...

Chris Gilford and Valeria Walsh Valdes, who created Nickelodeon’s Dora the Explorer, revealed the animated kids persona was ...

Created in 2000 by Chris Gifford, Valerie Walsh Valdes and Eric Weiner — and produced by Nickelodeon Animation Studio — “Dora the Explorer” famously broke the fourth wall to include ...

Created in 2000 by Chris Gifford, Valerie Walsh Valdes and Eric Weiner — and produced by Nickelodeon Animation Studio — “Dora the Explorer” famously broke the fourth wall to include ...

Valerie Walsh Valdes and Eric Weiner — and produced by Nickelodeon Animation Studio — “Dora the Explorer” famously broke the fourth wall to include children in the show’s problem-solving quests. “Dora ...

(You try saying “Swiper, no swiping!” three times fast!) But for creators Chris Gifford and Valerie Walsh Valdes, the idea of Dora, as the world has come to love, was not so straightforward.

“Those kids coming of age now — the ones who 25 years ago were just watching it as little preschoolers — they’re out there and they’re remembering,” says Valerie Walsh Valdes, co ...

Dora and the Search for Sol Dorado (2025) Film Review, a movie directed by Alberto Belli, written by JT Billings, Chris Gifford and Valerie Walsh Valdes and starring Samantha Lorraine, Danielle ...

Created in 2000 by Chris Gifford, Valerie Walsh Valdes and Eric Weiner — and produced by Nickelodeon Animation Studio — “Dora the Explorer” was all about breaking the fourth wall as a ...

Created in 2000 by Chris Gifford, Valerie Walsh Valdes and Eric Weiner — and produced by Nickelodeon Animation Studio — “Dora the Explorer” was all about breaking the fourth wall as a ...

"Those kids coming of age now -- the ones who 25 years ago were just watching it as little preschoolers -- they're out there and they're remembering," said Valerie Walsh Valdes, co-creator of the ...