Cartoon Network Shorts Department
Created byCartoon Network Studios
Country of originUnited States
Original languageEnglish
Production
Executive producers
Producers
  • Nate Funaro
  • Scott Malchus
  • Supervising producers:
    Pete Browngardt (7 shorts)
  • Mike Roth (9 shorts)
Related
List of titles

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 has been greenlit for a TV series at the start of the program.[1]

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

List of pilots

United States

Title Created by Original premiere(s)
Clarence Skyler Page May 21, 2013 (Online)
February 17, 2014 (TV)
Lakewood Plaza Turbo / OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes Ian Jones-Quartey May 21, 2013 (Online)
Mars Safari! Ghostshrimp
My Science Fiction Project Audie Harrison
Paranormal Roommates Benton Connor
Steven Universe: "The Time Thing" Rebecca Sugar
Tome of the Unknown: "Harvest Melody" / Over the Garden Wall Patrick McHale September 9, 2013 (LA Shorts Fest)
May 18, 2015 (Online)
AJ's Infinite Summer Toby Jones May 16, 2014 (Online)
Long Live the Royals Sean Szeles
We Bare Bears Daniel Chong November 6, 2014 (KLIK! Festival)
August 25, 2015 (TV)
Back to Backspace Dominic Bisignano and Amalia Levari November 12, 2014 (Online)
Pillywags Mansion[a] Sam Marin
Jammers Lizz Hickey May 18, 2015 (Online)
Ridin' with Burgess Andres Salaff
Twelve Forever[b] Julia Vickerman
Apple & Onion George Gendi June 18, 2015 (Annecy Festival)
May 2, 2016 (Online)
May 14, 2016 (TV)
Welcome to My Life Elizabeth Ito June 18, 2015 (Annecy Festival)
April 7, 2017 (Online)
Bottom's Butte Minty Lewis November 20, 2015 (CTN Expo)
May 2, 2016 (Online)
Summer Camp Island Julia Pott March 17, 2016 (SXSW Festival)
December 2, 2017 (CN App)
April 25, 2018 (Online)
Victor and Valentino Diego Molano October 29, 2016 (TV)
November 1, 2016 (Online)
Infinity Train Owen Dennis November 1, 2016 (VOD)
November 2, 2016 (Online)
February 11, 2017 (TV)
Legendary Place Calvin Wong March 4, 2017 (GLAS Festival)
November 9, 2018 (Online)
The Fancies: "Fancytown"/"The Beach"
/"Run Pam Run"/"Sir Tree" / The Fungies[c]		 Stephen P. Neary July 30, 2017 (ABP Festival)
May 8, 2019 (Online)
Unlovable Esther Pearl Watson and Mark Todd August 11, 2017 (HollyShorts Festival)[4]
Tiggle Winks / Tig n' Seek[c] Myke Chilian November 24, 2017 (CN App)
January 8, 2018 (Online)
Craig of the Creek Matt Burnett and Ben Levin December 1, 2017 (CN App)
Mushroom and the Forest of the World Madeleine Flores and J. Smith October 14, 2018 (KLIK! Festival)
April 26, 2019 (Online)
Sunshine Brownstone Audie Harrison November 17, 2018 (Online)
Pops & Branwell Pete Toms and Aleks Sennwald January 27, 2019 (CFF Seattle)
December 14, 2019 (Online)
Splitting Time Gleb Sanchez-Lobashov February 16, 2019 (BAICFF)
December 21, 2019 (Online)
The Wonderful Wingits Leticia Abreu Silva February 16, 2019 (BAICFF)
July 20, 2020 (Online)
Cadette in Charge Henrique Jardim February 6, 2020 (Online)
Trick Moon Geneva Hodgson July 21, 2020 (Online)
Beetle + Bean Nick Edwards July 22, 2020 (Online)
Wild Help Niki Yang January 1, 2021 (Online)
Bird & Squirrel[5] James Burks February 18, 2021 (CFF Seattle)
Greetings from Samson[6][7] Tiffany Ford TBD
Outrun Express[8] Jeremy Polgar
HUE Chroma Warriors[9] Eric Trueheart
Spirit Link[5] André LaMilza
Outrunners[5] Adam Ganse and Ashe Jacobson
Genie Family[10] Un­known
Badass Babies[11] Un­known
After School Super[5] Un­known

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.[12]

Title Created by Country of origin Co-production(s) Original premiere(s)
Lasso & Comet Ivan Dixon
Developed by: Greg Sharp and Ivan Dixon		  Australia Rubber House
Cartoon Network Asia Pacific		 November 9, 2016 (Online)

See also

Notes

  1. ^ Only puppet show/animated pilot of the program and the entire Cartoon Network Studios filmography.
  2. ^ This pilot has been greenlit as a series by Netflix.
  3. ^ a b Despite these two pilots have being greenlit by Cartoon Network, their series move to premiering on HBO Max.

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. ^ "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.
  5. ^ a b c d "Jill Calhoun - LinkedIn".
  6. ^ CN Doc Short on Vimeo
  7. ^ SAMSON AT WORK
  8. ^ Motion Scientist
  9. ^ Eric Trueheart | Staff Me Up
  10. ^ "Jiunn Jye Ooi - LinkedIn".
  11. ^ "Zach Smith - LinkedIn".
  12. ^ "Cartoon Network Grows its Australian-Made Original Animation in 2016". Time Warner, Inc. November 18, 2015. Retrieved October 30, 2017.

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