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Cartoon Network Shorts Department

Cartoon Network Shorts Department is the channel's artist development program for animated pilots that are created at Cartoon Network Studios. It was inaugurated and started in 2013 through online uploading of six titles, on May 21 for a short period, which three of them have been greenlit for a TV series at the start of the program.[1]

The shorts program has since been superseded by the Cartoon Cartoons shorts program introduced in 2021.

The short Mushroom and the Forest of the World was nominated for a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Short Format Children's Program.[2][3]

List of pilots

United States

International

Since 2016, the program has begun to expand to other countries where Cartoon Network Studios accept to commission (but not produce) those local short pilots, and the first title to be noticed in this process is Lasso & Comet.[21]

See also

  • Nickelodeon Animated Shorts Program - the Nickelodeon counterpart of the program.

External links

References

  1. Next Generation of Animation - Behind The Scenes, Geek Week, Cartoon Network - YouTube YouTube, retrieved September 13, 2016^
  2. Daytime Emmy Nominees: 'Elena of Avalor,' 'Rapunzel's Tangled Adventure' Lead Toon Contenders Animation Magazine, May 21, 2020, retrieved July 28, 2020^
  3. Daytime Emmy Awards: 'Dragon Prince,' 'Ask the Storybots' & 'Last Kids on Earth' Win Key Animation Categories for Netflix Animation Magazine, July 27, 2020, retrieved July 28, 2020^
  4. Label only; produced as part of The Cartoonstitute.^
  5. Esther Pearl Watson's Unlovable animated short will be at Hollyshorts Film Festival from August 10–19th! Twitter, August 1, 2017, retrieved August 3, 2017^
  6. Based off the children's book series of the same name.^
  7. Based off the children's book series of the same name.^
  8. Released under the Cartoon Cartoons label.^
  9. Bird & Squirrel short accepted into the (Virtual) Children's Film Festival Seattle 2021 James Burks, 2021-02-09, retrieved 2025-11-07^
  10. CN Doc Short on Vimeo retrieved 2018-10-27^
  11. SAMSON AT WORK by tiffanyford, retrieved 2024-08-16^
  12. Based on the webcomic Samson at Work.^
  13. Brett Varon - LinkedIn LinkedIn, retrieved 2026-02-09^
  14. Zach Smith - LinkedIn LinkedIn, retrieved 2023-08-29^
  15. Eric Trueheart - StaffMeUp.com Staff Me Up, retrieved 2022-05-07^
  16. Motion Scientist retrieved 2019-07-15^
  17. Jill Calhoun, ACE - LinkedIn LinkedIn, retrieved 2025-11-07^
  18. JillCalhoun_AnimaticDemoReel_Vimeo2 on Vimeo retrieved 2025-11-07^
  19. Outrunners Léandre Perrin, retrieved 2025-11-07^
  20. Ben Adams - LinkedIn LinkedIn, retrieved 2026-02-09^
  21. Cartoon Network Grows its Australian-Made Original Animation in 2016 Time Warner, Inc., November 18, 2015, retrieved October 30, 2017^