Question: Who saw the 2005 computer animated short film created by Shane Acker and went on to help produce it into the 2009 American computer-animated science fiction film?

Context articles: The Lady and the Reaper
9 (2009 animated film)
Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within
9 (2005 film)
Jack-Jack Attack
WALL-E
The Missing Scarf
Tormented (2009 Salvadorean film)
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs (film)
Monsters vs. Aliens

The Lady and the Reaper (Spanish: "La dama y la Muerte" ) is a 2009 Spanish 3D imaging animated short film created by Javier Recio Gracía and produced by Kandor Graphics and Green Moon.
 It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film and won the Goya Award for Best Animated Short of 2009.
 It was also included in the Animation Show of Shows.
9 is a 2009 American computer-animated science fiction film directed by Shane Acker, written by Pamela Pettler, and produced by Jim Lemley, Dana Ginsburg, Tim Burton, and Timur Bekmambetov.
 The film stars the voice talents of Elijah Wood, John C. Reilly, Jennifer Connelly, Christopher Plummer, Crispin Glover, Martin Landau, and Fred Tatasciore.
Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within is a 2001 American computer-animated science fiction film directed by Hironobu Sakaguchi, creator of the "Final Fantasy" series of role-playing video games.
 It was the first photorealistic computer-animated feature film and remains the most expensive video game-inspired film of all time.
 It features the voices of Ming-Na Wen, Alec Baldwin, Donald Sutherland, James Woods, Ving Rhames, Peri Gilpin and Steve Buscemi.
9 is a 2005 computer animated short film created by Shane Acker as a student project at the UCLA Animation Workshop.
 Tim Burton saw the film and was so impressed by its artistic vision that he went on to produce a feature-length adaptation also titled "9", directed by Acker and distributed by Focus Features.
 The film was presented at the Indianapolis International Film Festival.
 It was nominated for an Academy Award for best animated short film, but lost to "", although it did win a Student Academy Award for Best Animation.
Jack-Jack Attack is a 2005 computer animated short film produced by Pixar based on their film "The Incredibles", and directed by Brad Bird.
WALL-E (stylized with an interpunct as WALL·E) is a 2008 American computer-animated science fiction film produced by Pixar Animation Studios for Walt Disney Pictures.
 It was directed and co-written by Andrew Stanton, produced by Jim Morris, and co-written by Jim Reardon.
 It stars the voices of Ben Burtt, Elissa Knight, Jeff Garlin, Fred Willard, John Ratzenberger, Kathy Najimy, Sigourney Weaver, and the MacInTalk system, and was the overall ninth feature film produced by the company.
 It follows a trash compactor robot in a deserted world, left to clean a largely abandoned city.
 However, he is visited by a probe sent by the "Axiom" ship, whom he falls in love with and pursues across the galaxy.
The Missing Scarf is a 2013 computer animated, dark comedy-related, adventure, Irish short film directed by Eoin Duffy, produced by Jamie Hogan and narrated by George Takei.
 The film was shortlisted for the 86th Academy Awards.
 The project was created in conjunction with Irish Film Board, Raidió Teilifís Éireann and Arts Council of Ireland, the short film is made in Blender3D, making the first Blender3D-made short film to be shortlisted for an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film in 2014.
Tormented (Atormentada in Spanish) is a computer animated short film written and directed by Sergio Rosa.
 Produced by El Salvador-based Do Studio, it was projected in select theaters as part of the Film and TV Workshop by Escuela de Comunicaciones Mónica Herrera in November 2009.
 The short film is considered to be the first professional computer animated ever produced in El Salvador, and part of the emerging salvadorean film industry.
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs is a 2009 American computer-animated science fiction comedy film loosely based on the 1978 children's book of the same name by Judi and Ron Barrett.
 It was produced by Sony Pictures Animation, and released by Columbia Pictures on September 18, 2009.
 The film features the voices of Bill Hader, Anna Faris, Bruce Campbell, James Caan, Bobb'e J. Thompson, Andy Samberg, Mr. T, Benjamin Bratt, Neil Patrick Harris, Al Roker, Lauren Graham, and Will Forte.
 It was written and directed by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller.
 It was a critical and commercial success, earning $243 million worldwide on a budget of $100 million.
 A sequel, "Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2", was released on September 27, 2013.
 A television series based on the film with the same title premiered on February 20, 2017, on Cartoon Network.
Monsters vs. Aliens is a 2009 American 3D computer-animated science fiction film produced by DreamWorks Animation and distributed by Paramount Pictures.
 It was DreamWorks Animation's first feature film to be directly produced in a stereoscopic 3-D format instead of being converted into 3-D after completion, which added $15 million to the film's budget.