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Cartoon Network Shorts Department
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| Cartoon Network Shorts Department | |
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| Created by | Cartoon Network Studios |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language | English |
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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]
List of pilots
[edit]United States
[edit]| 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 | May 21, 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
[edit]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
[edit]- Nickelodeon Animated Shorts Program - the Nickelodeon counterpart of the program.
Notes
[edit]- ^ Only puppet show/animated pilot of the program and the entire Cartoon Network Studios filmography.
- ^ This pilot has been greenlit as a series by Netflix.
- ^ a b Despite these two pilots have being greenlit by Cartoon Network, their series move to premiering on HBO Max.
References
[edit]- ^ "Next Generation of Animation - Behind The Scenes, Geek Week, Cartoon Network - YouTube". YouTube. Retrieved September 13, 2016.
- ^ "Daytime Emmy Nominees: 'Elena of Avalor,' 'Rapunzel's Tangled Adventure' Lead Toon Contenders". Animation Magazine. May 21, 2020. Archived from the original on June 4, 2020. Retrieved July 28, 2020.
- ^ "Daytime Emmy Awards: 'Dragon Prince,' 'Ask the Storybots' & 'Last Kids on Earth' Win Key Animation Categories for Netflix". Animation Magazine. July 27, 2020. Archived from the original on September 8, 2020. Retrieved July 28, 2020.
- ^ "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.
- ^ a b c d "Jill Calhoun - LinkedIn".
- ^ "CN Doc Short on Vimeo". Archived from the original on 2020-11-08. Retrieved 2018-10-27.
- ^ "SAMSON AT WORK". by tiffanyford. Archived from the original on 2023-12-23. Retrieved 2024-08-16.
- ^ "Motion Scientist". Archived from the original on 2019-07-15. Retrieved 2019-07-15.
- ^ "Eric Trueheart - StaffMeUp.com". Staff Me Up. Archived from the original on 2023-04-05. Retrieved 2022-05-07.
- ^ "Jiunn Jye Ooi - LinkedIn".
- ^ "Zach Smith - LinkedIn".
- ^ "Cartoon Network Grows its Australian-Made Original Animation in 2016". Time Warner, Inc. November 18, 2015. Archived from the original on November 7, 2017. Retrieved October 30, 2017.
External links
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