New Bigfoot sighting in 'Hotel Transylvania' short film

• Genndy Tartakovsky has created a new 'Hotel Transylvania' short film called 'Goodnight Mr. Foot.'
• The film highlights Bigfoot, who has trouble putting his massive feet up for the night at Hotel Transylvania
• Tartakovsky has "a lot of fun ideas" for a 'Transylvania' sequel

Director Genndy Tartakovsky has checked into Hotel Transylvania and doesn't seem to want to check out.

After helming this fall's animated hit about a hotel for monsters (taking in a howling $119 million and counting), Tartakovsky has unveiled a new short film about the ghoulish retreat called Goodnight Mr. Foot. This shines the spotlight on the hairy beast Bigfoot, who had a non-speaking supporting role in the original movie.

"It's his breakout. He's the star," says Tartakovsky, "And his feet are big. They had to be. They don't call him 'Medium-Sized Foot.' It's Bigfoot. I haven't spent so much time on toenails in a while.''

The short will play before Hotel Transylvania in Regal Cinemas across the country starting Friday. Tartakovsky says he got the bug to do the hand-animated short, rendered in the style of his cartoon icons Harvey Kurtzman and Tex Avery, while in the final production stages of the computer-animated Hotel Transylvania.

"We still had a lot of work to do. We were really busy," says Transylvania producer Michelle Murdocca. "But (Tartakovsky) totally rolled up his sleeves and animated the whole (short film)."

While Bigfoot only roared randomly in the original, actor Corey Burton gave the creature voice. In Goodnight, Bigfoot checks into the monster resort before the commotion caused by hotel owner Dracula (voiced by Adam Sandler) around his daughter Mavis' (Selena Gomez) birthday, which is chronicled in the movie.

"It's a day in the life of the hotel before all the stuff happened," says Tartakovsky. "Bigfoot has got to walk halfway around the world to get to the hotel, and he's super-tired. Like anyone else, he just wants some peace and quiet."

After checking in through the mummy hotel staff, Bigfoot has his rest disturbed repeatedly by an overanxious witch maid. Bothersome, yes. But don't expect Dracula, who makes a non-speaking cameo in the short, to give Bigfoot a free night for his troubles.

"Everyone's afraid of Dracula," says Tartakovsky. "I don't think Bigfoot will be asking for comps."

As for Tartakovsky's next Hotel Transylvania check-in, a sequel to the film seems inevitable. "Everyone is talking about it, but we haven't started writing it," he says. "There are a lot of fun ideas we could totally play with. It's a ripe world."