Cartoon Network Shorts Department

*Cartoon Network Shorts Department*
Cartoon Network Shorts Department
Created by	Cartoon Network Studios
Countries of origin	United States; Australia
Original language	English
Production
Executive producers	Brian A. Miller (2013-2020); Jennifer Pelphrey (2013-2020); Rob Sorcher (2013-2020); Curtis Lelash (2013–2018); Mike Roth (2017–2018); Nick Jennings (2018–2021); Tramm Wigzell (2018–2020); Sam Register (2020-2021);
Producers	Nate Funaro (2013–2017); Scott Malchus (2017–2021); Sophia Monico (2019–2021); Jackie Buscarino (2021); Ryan Slater (2021);
Original release
Release	May 21, 2013
Related
	What a Cartoon!; The Cartoonstitute; Cartoon Cartoons; List of titles Steven Universe ; Clarence ; Over the Garden Wall ; We Bare Bears ; Long Live the Royals ; OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes ; Apple & Onion ; Craig of the Creek ; Summer Camp Island ; Victor and Valentino ; Infinity Train ; Tig n' Seek ; The Fungies! ; Invincible Fight Girl ;
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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.

The shorts program has since been superseded by the Cartoon Cartoons shorts program introduced in 2021. Nevertheless, a couple of shorts produced from 2017 to 2021 were released under the Cartoon Cartoons label.

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