| Creator: | Cartoon Network Studios |
| Country: | United States |
| Language: | English |
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 short Mushroom and the Forest of the World was nominated for an Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Short Format Children's Program.[2] [3]
| Title | Created by | Original premiere(s) | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Clarence | (Online) (TV) | ||
| Lakewood Plaza Turbo / OK K.O. | Let's Be Heroes | (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 | (LA Shorts Fest) (Online) | ||
| AJ's Infinite Summer | Toby Jones | (Online) | |
| Long Live the Royals | Sean Szeles | ||
| We Bare Bears | (KLIK! Festival) (TV) | ||
| Back to Backspace | Dominic Bisignano and Amalia Levari | (Online) | |
| Pillywags Mansion | Sam Marin | ||
| Jammers | Lizz Hickey | (Online) | |
| Ridin' with Burgess | Andres Salaff | ||
| Twelve Forever | Julia Vickerman | ||
| Apple & Onion | George Gendi | (Annecy Festival) (Online) (TV) | |
| Welcome to My Life | Elizabeth Ito | (Annecy Festival) (Online) | |
| Bottom's Butte | Minty Lewis | (CTN Expo) (Online) | |
| Summer Camp Island | (SXSW Festival) (CN App) (Online) | ||
| Victor and Valentino | Diego Molano | (TV) (Online) | |
| Infinity Train | Owen Dennis | (VOD) (Online) (TV) | |
| Legendary Place | Calvin Wong | (GLAS Festival) (Online) | |
| The Fancies: "Fancytown"/"The Beach" /"Run Pam Run"/"Sir Tree" / The Fungies | Stephen P. Neary | (ABP Festival) (Online) | |
| Unlovable | Esther Pearl Watson and Mark Todd | (HollyShorts Festival)[4] | |
| Tiggle Winks / Tig n' Seek | Myke Chilian | (CN App) (Online) | |
| Craig of the Creek | Matt Burnett and Ben Levin | (CN App) | |
| Mushroom and the Forest of the World | Madeleine Flores and J. Smith | (KLIK! Festival) (Online) | |
| Sunshine Brownstone | Audie Harrison | (Online) | |
| Pops & Branwell | Pete Toms and Aleks Sennwald | (CFF Seattle) (Online) | |
| Splitting Time | Gleb Sanchez-Lobashov | (BAICFF) (Online) | |
| The Wonderful Wingits | Leticia Abreu Silva | (BAICFF) (Online) | |
| Cadette in Charge | Henrique Jardim | (Online) | |
| Trick Moon | Geneva Hodgson | (Online) | |
| Beetle + Bean | Nick Edwards | (Online) | |
| Wild Help | (Online) | ||
| Bird & Squirrel | James Burks | (CFF Seattle) | |
| Greetings from Samson[5] [6] | Tiffany Ford | TBD | |
| Outrun Express[7] | Jeremy Polgar | ||
| HUE Chroma Warriors[8] | Eric Trueheart | ||
| Spirit Link[9] | André LaMilza | ||
| Outrunners | Adam Ganse and Ashe Jacobson | ||
| Genie Family[10] | |||
| Badass Babies[11] | |||
| After School Super |
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]