Cartoonstitute

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The Cartoonstitute
Format	Variety show
Created by	Rob Sorcher
Starring	Various voice actors
Country of origin	United States
Production
Executive producer(s)	Craig McCracken & Rob Renzetti
Running time	Approx 30 mins
Broadcast
Original channel	Cartoon Network
Original airing	2008

The Cartoonstitute is a future Cartoon Network spin-off showcase of animation shorts. Cartoonstitute is created by Rob Sorcher and produced by Craig McCracken (creator of The Powerpuff Girls and Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends) and Rob Renzetti (creator of My Life as a Teenage Robot.)

1 History
2 Goal
3 External links
4 References

[edit] History

Announced on April 3rd, 2008 at Cartoon Network's annual upfront, the project is similar to The Cartoon Cartoon Show, more commonly known as the What A Cartoon! Show, which aired on the network more than a decade earlier. Similarly to the What A Cartoon! project, the Cartoonstitute hopes to establish a think tank for animators and create an environment in which animators can create characters and stories. A section of the Cartoon Network Studios headquarters in Burbank, California has been set aside exclusively for the project.

[edit] Goal

The project holds an ambitious goal of producing 150 animated shorts in the timespan of 20 months. Sorcher says the goal of the project is to create a swift track for Cartoon Network's original programming. The project will set up 6 core artists to create animated pilots for the showcase. Sorcher hopes to enlist some 30 more artists as development progresses. Unlike the What A Cartoon! Project, the showcase does not aim to bring new, fresh artists into the animating industry. However, Sorcher is not completely against the idea of bringing new, unknown talent into the project in the future. The "Cartoonstitute" name was imagined by Lauren Faust, the wife of Craig McCracken.