[4][5] A kiwi, the short's only character, is drawn with black strokes and lines, and is staged on a pure white background, with splashes of goldish yellow being featured in the form of the titular nuggets.

[4][5] German studio Film Bilder released Nuggets onto their Filmbilder & Friends YouTube channel on 13 October 2014.

[7] The kiwi progressively experiences diminishing returns with each nugget it consumes, with subsequent flights becoming shorter and the falls back down to the ground becoming harsher,[7] until it stops flying entirely.

[3][4][9][10] HuffPost Canada wrote that the kiwi's struggle with addiction was "extraordinarily gripping", opining that "there's something so devastatingly human between the stark black and white lines of German animator Andreas Hykade's five-minute creation.

[10] In an April 2015 interview with the German-based newspaper Stuttgarter Nachrichten, Hykade stated that half of a second part to Nuggets was funded.