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The shorts program has since been superseded by the Cartoon Cartoons shorts program introduced in 2021.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

List of pilots

United States

International

Since 2016, the program has begun to expand to other countries where Cartoon Network Studios accept to commission those local short pilots, and the first title to be noticed in this process is Lasso & Comet.

Title	Created by	Country of origin	Co-production	Original premiere
Lasso & Comet	Ivan Dixon Developed by: Greg Sharp and Ivan Dixon		Rubber House Cartoon Network Asia Pacific