Walt Disney Animation Studios short films (2000–present)

This is a list of short films created by Walt Disney Animation Studios from the year 2000 onwards.

2000s

Series	Title	Director	Release Date	DVD/Blu-ray Release	Notes
—	John Henry	Mark Henn	October 30, 2000	Disney's American Legends Walt Disney Animation Studios Short Films Collection	Based on African American folk hero John Henry; only shown to the general public six times over three days at Hollywood's El Capitan Theatre[1]
—	Destino	Dominique Monfery	October 10, 2003	Fantasia and Fantasia 2000 (two movie collection)	Hybrid Animation Was originally made for a third Fantasia film
—	Lorenzo	Mike Gabriel	April 6, 2004	Walt Disney Animation Studios Short Films Collection	Was originally made for a third Fantasia film In theaters with Raising Helen
—	The Little Matchgirl	Roger Allers	June 6, 2006	The Little Mermaid (Platinum and Diamond Editions) Walt Disney Animation Studios Short Films Collection	Was originally made for a third Fantasia film
Goofy	How to Hook Up Your Home Theater[2]	Stevie Wermers Kevin Deters	December 21, 2007	Walt Disney Animation Studios Short Films Collection	In theaters with National Treasure: Book of Secrets To test Toon Boom Harmony
—	Glago's Guest	Chris Williams	June 10, 2008	—	Computer Animation Pre-screened at Annecy International Animation Film Festival 2008

2010s

Series	Title	Director	Release date	DVD/ Blu-ray Release	Notes
—	Tick Tock Tale	Dean Wellins	June 2010	Walt Disney Animation Studios Short Films Collection	Computer Animation Pre-screened at Annecy International Animation Film Festival 2010 [3]
—	The Ballad of Nessie	Stevie Wermers Kevin Deters	March 5, 2011	Winnie the Pooh Walt Disney Animation Studios Short Films Collection	In theaters with Winnie the Pooh
Tangled	Tangled Ever After	Nathan Greno Byron Howard	January 13, 2012	Cinderella (Diamond Edition) Walt Disney Animation Studios Short Films Collection	Computer Animation In theaters with Beauty and the Beast 3D
—	Paperman	John Kahrs	June 2012 November 2, 2012	Wreck-It Ralph Walt Disney Animation Studios Short Films Collection	Hybrid Animation In theaters with Wreck-It Ralph First Disney animated short to win the Academy Award in 43 years. Pre-screened at Annecy International Animation Film Festival 2012 [4][5]
Mickey Mouse	Get a Horse!	Lauren MacMullan	June 11, 2013 November 27, 2013	Frozen Walt Disney Animation Studios Short Films Collection	Combines Hand-drawn & Computer Animation In theaters with Frozen Pre-Screened at Annecy International Animation Film Festival 2013
—	Feast	Patrick Osborne	June 10, 2014 November 7, 2014	Big Hero 6 Walt Disney Animation Studios Short Films Collection	Hybrid Animation In theaters with Big Hero 6 Pre-screened at Annecy International Animation Film Festival 2014 [6]
Frozen	Frozen Fever	Chris Buck Jennifer Lee	March 13, 2015	Cinderella Walt Disney Animation Studios Short Films Collection	Computer Animation In theaters with Cinderella [7]
—	Inner Workings	Leo Matsuda	June 17, 2016 November 23, 2016	Moana	Combines Hand-drawn & Computer Animation In theaters with Moana Pre-screened at Annecy International Animation Film Festival 2016
Frozen	Olaf's Frozen Adventure	Stevie Wermers Kevin Deters	November 22, 2017	Olaf's Frozen Adventure	Computer Animation In theaters with Coco

2020s

Series	Title	Director	Release date	DVD / Blu-ray Release	Notes
—	Us Again	Zach Parrish	March 5, 2021	Raya and the Last Dragon	Computer Animation In theaters with Raya and the Last Dragon
—	Far from The Tree	Natalie Nourigat	November 24, 2021	Encanto	Hybrid Animation In theaters with Encanto
—	Once Upon a Studio	Trent Correy and Dan Abraham	October 15, 2023 (ABC) December 15, 2023 (with Wish in Japan)	Wish	Combines hand-drawn animation, computer-animation & live-action Pre-screened at Annecy International Animation Film Festival 2023 In theatres with Wish in Japan and also in theaters with the Disney100 theatrical re-release of Moana.[8]

Non-theatrical shorts

Non-theatrical shorts include direct-to-video shorts, which have been released as bonus content on VHS, DVD, Blu-ray, and HD Digital releases of Disney features, as well as Wartime & industrial shorts, educational shorts, and theme park attractions featuring well known characters. The list also includes TV specials, produced by Disney studio and screened by ABC, and shorts released on Disney+.

Theme park shorts

Series	Title	Director	Release date	Release format	Notes
Winnie the Pooh	Pooh's Hunny Hunt		September 4, 2000	Theme park attraction	Animation produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation Florida
Mickey Mouse	Mickey's PhilharMagic	George Scribner	October 3, 2003	Theme park attraction	Computer animation

Direct-to-video shorts

Series	Title	Director	Release date	Release format	Notes
—	One By One	Pixote Hunt	August 31, 2004	The Lion King II: Simba's Pride	Was originally made for a third Fantasia Film
Home on the Range	A Dairy Tale	Will Finn John Sanford	September 14, 2004	Home on the Range	Direct-to-DVD short
Bolt	Super Rhino	Nathan Greno	March 22, 2009	Bolt	Computer Animation Direct-to-DVD short
101 Dalmatians	The Further Adventures of Thunderbolt*[9]		February 10, 2015	On Blu-ray/DVD with the original One Hundred and One Dalmatians
Moana	Gone Fishing	John Musker Ron Clements	February 21, 2017	Moana	Computer Animation Direct-to-Blu-ray short

TV specials

Series	Title	Director	Release date	Release format	Notes
Prep & Landing	Prep & Landing	Stevie Wermers Kevin Deters	December 8, 2009	ABC television special	Computer Animation
	Tiny's Big Adventure		December 9, 2009
	Operation: Secret Santa		December 7, 2010
	Prep & Landing: Naughty vs. Nice		December 5, 2011

Internet and Disney+ Original shorts

Series	Title	Director	Release date	Release format	Notes
Goofy	Checkin' in with Goofy[10]		February 16, 2011	Webtoon	Opening titles homage to golden age cartoons of the 1940s
—	Electric Holiday[11]		November 15, 2012	Webtoon
Oswald the Lucky Rabbit	Oswald Holiday Greeting Card		December 1, 2013	Webtoon	Produced by Disney of Japan. Only 34 seconds in length.
Frozen	Once Upon a Snowman	Dan Abraham Trent Correy	October 23, 2020	Disney+
Frozen	Myth: A Frozen Tale	Jeff Gibson	February 26, 2021	Disney+	With two minute behind the scene introduction by director Jeff Gibson.
Oswald the Lucky Rabbit	Oswald the Lucky Rabbit[12]	Eric Goldberg	December 1, 2022	Webtoon
—	8-Bit Strange World[13]		December 27, 2022	Webtoon
Donald Duck	D.I.Y. Duck[14]	Mark Henn	June 9, 2024	Disney+
Donald Duck	Donald Duck Tries to Keep His Cool While Eating Spicy Wings[15]	Eric Goldberg	August 23, 2024	YouTube

Short series

Note: Each series was streamed on Disney+

Franchise	Title	Original run	Episodes
Experimental shorts	Short Circuit	2020–2022	20
Goofy	How to Stay at Home	2021	3
Frozen	Olaf Presents	2021	5
Big Hero 6	Baymax!	2022	6
Zootopia	Zootopia+	2022	6

Disney internship program shorts

The project is under Walt Disney Animation summer internship program (CG & Art intern program), where a group of animation and computer graphics students collaborate and make shorts within two months, under the guidance of Disney animators. The shorts are around 1 minute.

Title	Release date	Release format
Ventana	2017	Computer Animation
Voilà	2018
Maestro	2019
June Bug	2021

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