2002 Academy Award winner for best animated short "The ChubbChubbs!"

When Sony Pictures Imageworks president Tim Sarnoff encouraged company artists and animators to create an original story, "The ChubbChubbs!" was conceived. Imageworks' first all-CG short introduces the alien inhabitants of the Planet Glorf: Meeper, the earnest but oh so awkward hero, the singing Diva, the Zyzaks and the ChubbChubbs. In this debut short, Meeper valiantly tries to warn the patrons of the Ale-E-Inn, an intergalatic watering hole with its own constellation of stars, of impending danger only to find himself face to face with the toughest creatures in the universe. "The ChubbChubbs!" began as a test of Imageworks' production pipeline and went on to win an Academy Award® for Best Animated Short Film. Copyright held by creator.