SparkShorts is a series of American independent animated short films produced by Pixar Animation Studios. The program consists of giving employees at Pixar six months and a limited budget to develop indie short films. The first short, Purl, was released at SIGGRAPH on August 14, 2018. Purl was officially released on February 4, 2019, on YouTube while Smash and Grab and Kitbull were released February 11 and 18, respectively. Subsequent shorts were released on November 12,2019, on Disney+.