''Cartoon Network Shorts Department'' is the channel's artist development program for

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pilots that are created at

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. 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 short ''Mushroom and the Forest of the World'' was nominated for a

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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

accept to commission (but not produce) those local short pilots, and the first title to be noticed in this process is ''Lasso & Comet''.

Notes

References

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External links

CN Minis
playlist on

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