"We're all a little different, and that's a lotta cool!"
sprout was born as a story about embracing what makes you YOU!
It’s about feeling like you aren’t good enough,
and the jealousy that can make us spiral.
Sometimes we get so hung up on “flaws” that we can miss the fact that
they are really the things that make us beautiful.
Sprout had its debut at the 2021 Austin film festival,
followed by Spark Animation, CIFF, SLIFF and the Atlanta film festival
with honorable mention, and family placement at numerous other events and festivals.
In 2023 Sprout was released globally on YouTube, and nominated for the Unity awards,
taking home the prize for best animated film.
We're so proud of our little heartfelt hero!
When Sprout began it was a story about four characters. A young woman, a bulb,
a shrub and an old man.
There was flight, there were flying fish creatures,
there were multiple locations! But most of all, there were budget limitations.
It may sound strange to say it, but often limitations can help us make some pretty cool art. obviously you can't build the Golden Gate Bridge with a dollar fifty,
but you can adjust a story to make it fit your means. So we hammer and chiseled and worked and sweat and cried, and in the end, we think we pulled it off.
But we still love sharing the concept art of what could have been.
Writer: Nayt Cochran
Director: Nayt Cochran
Production Company: IV Studio
Executive Producers: Samuel Cowden, Zac Dixon
Producer: Rebekah Hamilton
Music: Cody Fry
Art Director: Glenn Thomas
Concept Art: Glenn Thomas
Storyboard Artist: Nayt Cochran
Visual Development Artist: Glenn Thomas, Maxwell Anderson
Matte Painting, Glenn Thomas, Michael Cribbs
Title Design: Glenn Thomas, Nayt Cochran
Illustration: Glenn Thomas, Michael Cribbs
Texture Artist: Adriyan Tandia, Michael Cribbs, Maxwell Anderson
Animation Supervisor: Taylor Yontz
Character Animation: Ty Coyle, Taylor Yontz
Additional Animation: Max Anderson, Stephen VanWyk, Ty Coyle, Taylor Yontz
Technical Director: Maxwell Anderson
Layout Artist: Stephen VanWyk
Character Modeling: Adriyan Tandia, Jamie Liu
Rigging: Twisted Mountain Animation Inc, Ashwin Inamdar, Max Anderson
Environment Modeling: Mimi Kwan, Carlos A. Villagomez, Maxwell Anderson
Lighting Artist: Maxwell Anderson
Unity Artist: Maxwell Anderson, Zac Dixon
Compositing: Zac Dixon, Maxwell Anderson
Editor: Nayt Cochran, Taylor Yontz
Sound Design: Nayt Cochran, Rebekah Hamilton
Voice Acting: Izzi Dixon, Alex Plasket
Story By: Nayt Cochran
Story Trust: Zac Dixon, Taylor Yontz, Samuel Cowden
Special Thanks: Lizzie, Rachel Loven, Adam Milikin, Nayt's Mom and Dad
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