The Mushies!

The Mushies! is a 2004 American computer-animated short film written and directed by David Feiss and produced by Roy Kobayashi. It is the first production by Fox Feature Animation to utilize computer-generated three-dimensional animation. The short premiered at the 2004 SIGGRAPH convention in Los Angeles, California on August 11, 2004. It was later theatrically released alongside the 2006 Fox animated film Puppet Pals, on June 30, 2006.

The Mushies! was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film in 2005, but lost to Ryan.

Plot
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Cast
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 * Tom Kenny as Prack
 * Dee Bradley Baker as the Mushies

Production
The short was "originally conceived as a pipeline test to help determine the studio’s strengths and weaknesses in producing all-CG animation at the Fox Feature Animation Century City studio."

Release
The Mushies! premiered at the 2004 SIGGRAPH in Los Angeles, California on August 11, 2004. To qualify for the 77th Academy Awards, Fox arranged in November 2004 special screenings of the short at the Laemmle Theatres in Los Angeles. The Mushies! would be theatrically released alongside Puppet Pals on June 30, 2006. Due to its success, it was re-released on September 15, 2006 with Everyone's Hero.

In 2016, the short was re-rendered into 3D, and it was theatrically re-released alongside the 3D re-release of Puppet Pals on September 2, 2016. The updated 3D version is preceded with the message "In 2004, two years before Puppet Pals, 20th Century Fox Animation made this short film."

Home media
The Mushies! was released by on its own extremely rare DVD in April 2005 via 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, and with a running time of 5 minutes, 42 seconds, which is considered likely one of the shortest DVDs ever made. The short got another DVD release on December 19, 2006, this time as a bonus on Puppet Pals two-disc DVD collector's release, including commentary from director David Feiss and producer Roy Kobayashi. The Mushies! and its sequel The Mushies: Operation Xmas were also released on the Fox Animation Short Film Collection DVD and Blu-ray on October 16, 2012. The short was also released in 3D on the Puppet Pals 3D Blu-ray on November 22, 2016.

Feature-length adaptation
In February 2005, a feature-length film adaptation based on the short was announced by 20th Century Fox, but never got into production. It is unknown whether Fox will again start developing a feature-length film adaptation of the short.

Sequel
A sequel, The Mushies: Operation Xmas, was theatrically released on October 22, 2010, alongside Fox's Alaina Gleen, and was produced by 20th Century Fox Animation.

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