Nickelodeon Animated Shorts Program

Summary

Nickelodeon Animated Shorts Program is a variety project that was launched in 2012, where people make animated shorts at Nickelodeon Animation Studio for shows to send to Nickelodeon and the Nick Jr. Channel. Since this project was launched, the TV series Breadwinners started in 2014, along with The Loud House in 2016, and the short-form series MooseBox and Sharkdog in 2018.[1]

List of shorts for editions edit

Nickelodeon Animated Shorts Program edit

2012–2013[2] edit

Title Created by Status Notes
Austin Oliver Greg Worswick Completed
Baby 'Stache Gary Anthony Williams
Breadwinners Steve Borst and Gary S. "Doodles" DiRaffaele Series pickup (Full) Second version of the pilot.
Cabrito and Chewy Allan Jacobsen and Chuckles Austen Completed
Carrot and Stick Derek Robert Iversen and Miles Hindman Episode: "Sweet Rosie".
Level 15 Wolf-Rüdiger Bloss
Lucas Kyle Dunnigan
Marty's Exotic Animals Andrew Friedman
Odyssey Squad! Ben G. Adams
Pam & Sid's Port-a-Party Annie Sertich and Mindy Sterling
Tallie Peer Counselor Laura Sreebny
Wing Dings T.J. Fuller
Zombie Brothers Eric Robles

2013–2014 edit

[3]

Title Created by Status Notes
Badly Drawn Animals! Hamish Steele Completed One of the seven International pilot episodes included in this edition. Originally from the United Kingdom.
Bear Wrestler Deanna Rooney
Broats Jack Cusumano
Bug Salad Carl Faruolo Series pickup (Web)
By Request Pizza Arica Tuesday and Morgana Ignis (credited as Mick Ignis) Completed
Charlie and Mr. Two Travis Braun
Earmouse and Bottle Brian Morante
Hole Sam Spina
The Loud House Chris Savino Series pickup (Full) Episode: "Bathroom Break!!".
Louis & Georges Renaud Martin and Raphaël Chabassol Completed One of the seven International pilot episodes included in this edition. Originally from France.
Matt & Gus Matt Braunger Episode: "Donut Disturb".
Monster Pack/Ollie's Pack Graham Peterson and Pedro Eboli Series pickup (Full) One of the seven International pilot episodes included in this edition. Originally from Brazil.
MooseBox Michael "Mike" T. Scott Series pickup (Shorts) One of the seven International pilot episodes included in this edition. Originally from South Africa.
Scoop! The Brothers McLeod (Greg Mcleod and Myles Mcleod) Completed One of the seven International pilot episodes included in this edition. Originally from the United Kingdom.
Tech Oddity Marco Ibarra and Stefie Zöhrer One of the seven International pilot episodes included in this edition. Originally from Mexico.
Tonk's Island Mel Roach One of the seven International pilot episodes included in this edition. Originally from Australia.
Woodstump! Zach Smith

2014–2015[4][5] edit

Title Created by Status Notes
Bad Bad Bunny Tarryn Henderson Completed
Buck 'n Lou and the Night Crew Caitlin Rose Boyle and Tara Helfer
Crazy Block Iginio Straffi One of the eight International pilot episodes included in this edition. Originally from Italy. Co-produced with the Rainbow studio (which is co-owned by Nickelodeon's parent company, ViacomCBS)
The Cupcakery of Doom Trevor Reece
DuckManBoy Louis Hudson and Ian Ravenscroft One of the eight International pilot episodes included in this edition. Originally from the United Kingdom. Co-produced with Dice Productions.
Feebs and Mr. Timmins Suren Perera One of the eight International pilot episodes included in this edition. Originally from Australia.
Francine Katie Crown
Ice Station Zedonk Tom Parkinson
Jo Minkus Benjamin Anders One of the eight International pilot episodes included in this edition. Originally from Canada.
Magic Children Doing Things Monica Ray Pontentially picked up by Disney Television Animation according to the creator[6][7]
Meat Pie vs. The Dark Ages Gabe Swarr
Off the Shelf Melody Iza (credited as Robert Iza)
The Outsiders Eric Bravo
Planet Claire Will McRobb and Chris Viscardi
Someplace Awesome Eamonn O'Neill and Marah Curran One of the eight International pilot episodes included in this edition. Originally from Ireland.
Summer Memories Adam Yaniv Series pickup (Full)[8]
The Tall Tales of Urchin Hamish Steele Completed One of the eight International pilot episodes included in this edition. Originally from the United Kingdom. Co-produced with Blink Industries.
Ugly Mutt Dave Hagen and Shadi Petosky
Werebeast James Lancett One of the eight International pilot episodes included in this edition. Originally from the United Kingdom.
Woodchips Christian Villacañas One of the eight International pilot episodes included in this edition. Originally from Spain.

2015–2016 edit

Title Created by Status Notes
A Boy and His Dude Mike de Seve Completed Co-produced with Baboon Animation. Episode: "Dem Bones".
BroDuel Mike Annear
Earth to Allen Dave Schlafman Episode: "Hunger Pains".
Face Face Chris Prynoski Also known as Space Face. Co-produced with Titmouse, Inc.
Fun Times with Rez! Chris Conforti
Gumwad Island Joe Rothenberg
Happy Zoo Yum Yum London
Kid Impressive Evan Sussman Co-produced with Hero4Hire Creative. Episode: "Squid of Doom".
Learn Something with Luther and AJ Kylar Loya and Bill Cleveland
Low Life Mike Hollingsworth
The Magic Hour Nath Milburn and Andrew Melzer
Menehunes Chris Albrecht Co-produced with Titmouse, Inc..
Mugman Jacob Lenard Co-Produced with Exceptional Minds
P.E.: Paranormal Education Jordan Geary, Harold Moss, and Keith Vincent Co-produced with FlickerLab.
Plunger the Dragon James Kochalka
Russel & Fox's Cruel and Unusual Detention Dan Abdo and Jason Patterson
The Squatch Scouts Christopher Jammal
Torum Tellum Jim Mortensen
Ziptronik Megablast Nathan Jurevicius

2016–2017 edit

[9]

Title Created by Status Notes
Best Baddies Max Wittert Completed
Burger Bros Kevin Li Co-produced with Aardman Nathan Love.
Dia De Los Tacos Vincent Scala Formerly known as Monster Taco.
Dog and Squirrel Andrea Gerstmann
Farkels Greg Kletsel, Dessarae Bassil, and Valerie Lockhart
The Girl from Dinosaur Island Celestino Marina
Lazybones Casey Alexander and Lizz Hickey Also known as Lazybones: A Humerus Short.
Mini Cops Nicolette Groome
My Friend Pancake Rikke Asbjoern
P.E.T. Academy Robert Smith One of the four International pilot episodes included in this edition. Originally from the United Kingdom.
Pig and a Blanket Brendon Ingvy Gillas
Planet Panic Gene Goldstein
Pony/It's Pony Ant Blades Series pickup (Full)[10][11] One of the four International pilot episodes included in this edition. Originally from the United Kingdom.
Ramblers! Morghan Fortier and Brett Jubinville Completed Co-produced with Tinman Creative.
Robo Wonder Kid Joel MacKenzie Formerly known as The Myth of Robo Wonder Kid. Second version of the pilot.
Sharkdog Jacinth Tan Yi Ting and Raihan Harun Series pickup (Shorts) One of the four International pilot episodes included in this edition. Originally from Singapore.
Slimelab Nick Arciaga Completed
Someone Needs to Stop Aunt Phyllis! Lisa Vandenberg
Space Mission: Danger! Lynn Wang and Ed Skudder
The Super Dooper Studios Sabine Ravn and Stine Buhl

2017–2018 edit

Title Created by Status Notes
The Ballad of Bea & Cad Tim Probert Completed Co-produced with Aardman Nathan Love. Episode: "Day Trip to the Aquarium Doom".
Barbabyan Paul Noth and Patrick Noth
Camp Weedonwantcha[12] Katie Rice and Adam Wallander
Dungeon Crawlers FresherLuke
Harold & Herbert Dan Krall Episode: "Dumpster Diving".
Harpy Gee Brianne Drouhard Based on her webcomic of the same name
Jan + Bobbie Hannah Watanabe-Rocco
Leashes Derekh Froude and Michael Kaufman
Tennis the Good Boy Ronald Stanage and Andres Parada
Universal Brawlers of the Universe Kevin Sukho Lee and Tim Sievert

Nick Jr. Animated Shorts Program[13] edit

2014–2015 edit

Title Created by Status Notes
Corn & Peg Chris Hamilton Series Pickup (Full) co-produced with Oddbot Animation
DJ Cluck & MC Mole Matt Morgan Completed
Howdy, Harrdy Henrique Lira Co-produced with Split Studio.
Hubble, Bubble and Squeak CharacterShop and Miranda Larson
Ooman and Moof Benedict Bowen Co-produced with Karrot Animation. Episode: "What Are Wings?".

2015–2016 edit

Title Created by Status Notes
The Thing About Babies Liza Steinberg, Ross Alvord, and Jen Cast Completed

2016–2017 edit

Title Created by Status Notes
PRONTOsaurus Evan Sussman and Allison Dressler Kramer Completed Co-produced with Hero4Hire
Trufax: Tot Cop Jason Tammemägi and Méabh Tammemägi Series pickup (Full) One of the four International pilot episodes included in this edition. Premiered on the Noggin App. Originally from Ireland.

2018–2019 edit

Title Created by Status Notes
Fur-Ever Family Darin McGowan Completed

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ "NickALive!: Nickelodeon International Greenlights Two Short-Form Series From Global Animated Shorts Program". October 13, 2017. Retrieved January 19, 2018.
  2. ^ Watch 12 Nickelodeon Cartoons From Their Shorts Program | Cartoon Brew
  3. ^ Exclusive: Nickelodeon Announces 2014 Animated Shorts Program | Cartoon Brew
  4. ^ Nickelodeon Grows Its Content Family with 13-Episode Order of The Loud House, the First Series to Be Greenlit out of Its 2013 Animated Shorts Program | Business Wire
  5. ^ Nick Picks Global Shorts Finalists | Animation Magazine
  6. ^ @montiray (September 30, 2021). "I am actually in the process of getting the rights back so I can maybe, one day, pitch it to another studio. But th…" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
  7. ^ "Monica Ray Trying to Get the Rights Back for "Magic Children Doing Things" from Nickelodeon to Pitch It to Other Networks Including Disney".
  8. ^ "Adam Yaniv's 'Summer Memories' Now in Production for WildBrain". 19 November 2021.
  9. ^ Nickelodeon Launches 2016 Animated Shorts Program, Announces 2015 Finalists | Variety
  10. ^ "Nickelodeon Greenlights Original Animated Comedy Series Pony" (Press release). Nickelodeon. March 6, 2018. Retrieved April 15, 2020 – via The Futon Critic.
  11. ^ "Nickelodeon Debuts Brand-New Animated Series, It's Pony, Saturday, Jan. 18" (Press release). Nickelodeon Press. December 9, 2019. Retrieved April 15, 2020.
  12. ^ "Camp W finished short". YouTube. Retrieved August 15, 2018.
  13. ^ Kidscreen » Archive » Nick Jr. animated shorts program launches

External links edit

  • Official Facebook page
  • Official Tumblr page
  • Nick Animated Shorts playlist on YouTube