''Go! Cartoons'', stylized as ''GO! Cartoons'', is a series of

animated shorts A short film is any motion picture that is short enough in running time not to be considered a feature film. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences defines a short film as "an original motion picture that has a running time of 40 minutes ...

produced by

Frederator Studios Frederator Studios is an American animation television production studio which is a division of Frederator Networks, Inc. It was founded by Fred Seibert in 1997 with its first series launching in 1998. (Seibert resigned from Frederator in Augus ...

and

Sony Pictures Animation Sony Pictures Animation Inc. is an American animation studio owned by Sony Entertainment's Sony Pictures Entertainment through their Motion Picture Group division and founded on May 9, 2002. The studio's films are distributed worldwide by Son ...

. The series premiered on November 7, 2017, with the short ''The Summoning''. It features 12 shorts, airing on VRV and

Cartoon Hangover Cartoon Hangover is a Frederator internet television channel and adult animation division, part of the YouTube Original Channel Initiative, launched in February 2012. Frederator produced two animated series exclusively for the Internet: ''Bravest ...

YouTube YouTube is a global online video platform, online video sharing and social media, social media platform headquartered in San Bruno, California. It was launched on February 14, 2005, by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim. It is owned by ...

channel. ''Go! Cartoons'' is Frederator Studios' sixth cartoon "incubator" series since 1998.

Description

''Go! Cartoons'' showcases animated shorts and is designed to find "tomorrow’s cartoon hitmakers". Each cartoon short can act as a pilot, with the most successful cartoons having an opportunity to be produced as a full series on

or elsewhere. Several animated television series have started in similar incubator-type formats, including ''

Adventure Time ''Adventure Time'' is an American fantasy animated television series created by Pendleton Ward for Cartoon Network and distributed by Warner Bros. Domestic Television. The series follows the adventures of a boy named Finn (Jeremy Shada) and ...

'' and ''

Bee and PuppyCat ''Bee and PuppyCat'' is an American adult animated streaming television series created and written by Natasha Allegri. The series revolves around Bee (voiced by Allyn Rachel), an unemployed woman in her early twenties, who encounters a mysteri ...

''. The project began in 2014 when

and

called for pitches from animators around the world. Twelve five-minute shorts were produced, and one would become a limited series on

. As of November 19, 2022, none of the shorts have become a series.

Filmography

List of episodes

References

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Description

Filmography

List of episodes

See also

References