SparkShorts
| SparkShorts | |
|---|---|
| Created by | Pixar | 
| Original work | Purl (2019) | 
| Owner | The Walt Disney Company | 
| Years | 2019–2024 | 
| Films and television | |
| Short film(s) | |
| Audio | |
| Soundtrack(s) | See below | 
SparkShorts is a series of American independent animated short films produced by Pixar Animation Studios. It consists of a program in which Pixar's employees are given six months and limited budgets to develop animated short films that were originally released on Pixar's YouTube channel, and later on Disney+.
Purl, the first short of the SparkShorts program, was released at SIGGRAPH on August 14, 2018, while the next two shorts, Smash and Grab and Kitbull, were both given a limited release at the El Capitan Theater on January 8, 2019, alongside the former. Purl was officially released on February 4, 2019, on YouTube while Smash and Grab and Kitbull were released on February 11 and 18, respectively. Subsequent shorts were released on November 12, 2019, on Disney+, beginning with Float, rather than on YouTube.