Sprouts

We create cartoon animations for learning. We write original stories, create epic illustrations, and add ideas for real-life projects to make learning more meaningful. Many of our videos are fun. That means teachers like to play them in classrooms and students tend to remember them better, and feel encouraged to dig deeper. Our main focus are the social sciences, and in particular, learning how to learn and learning how to teach.  “My teacher shared this video with the class and told us we’d be trying it out for a term. I am SOOO excited to learn like this!”, - Shallot Cat commented on <a href="https://youtu.be/qdKzSq_t8k8">The Flipped Classroom</a> Today already over 70 million students have watched our videos and over 1,000,000 have subscribed to our English channel, plus 200K in Spanish and 100K in German. And as most Sprouts videos contain only cartoons and very little written English, they can be translated easily — in fact, volunteers from around the world have translated our videos into Italian, Spanish, Chinese, Korean, Vietnamese, Arabic, Hungarian, Hebrew, Thai, and over 25 other languages. Right now, we are a small team, and the production of each video is a long and expensive process, but we dream big. With your help, we can create a fun, open and truly international curriculum for learners around the world.  <div style="margin-left: 20px;">&quot;Very few times one comes to a YouTube video and actually learns something. Your videos are the most productive videos on YouTube. Nuclearwintercool 92 on <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JawhTCCbVZM&amp;lc=z124fjtz5wfcxvfa504ciprzktb3endb5ks0k">Learning with Passion</a></div> HOW YOUR DONATION WILL BE USED  <ol><li>First, we want to do this full time. </li><li>Second, we want to invite more teachers and scriptwriters so we can cover more topics. </li><li>Third, we aim to build an open platform for students and teachers to access our videos in different formats, languages, with or without music and support each video with instructions for classroom projects.</li></ol> EVERYONE CAN PLAY OUR VIDEOS!  All videos funded by our patrons are licensed under the Creative Commons NC ND license. That means everyone is allowed to play them anywhere for private and non-profit purposes. And private creators are also allowed to edit our videos for personal use unless they re-upload them in a public domain. Non-profit organizations, government agencies, public schools or private people without commercial interest can use, download and share our videos free of charge. They can also embed them in their online courses or use them for internal training. If you do so, please credit our channel with this link: ”Video by Sprouts: 	<a href="http://www.youtube.com/sproutsvideos">youtube.com/sproutsvideos</a>&quot;. 	 For-Profits can play our videos from YouTube or embed them on their page. They, however, cannot share our videos in online courses, download them for internal use, put them behind a paywall, or use them for any other business-related activity restricted to a certain group of people. If you are interested to purchase a license to play your video, please contact us via our website 	<a href="http://www.sproutsschools.com">sproutsschools.com</a>. If you play, link or embed our videos to a public website, please credit our channel with this link: ”Video by Sprouts: 	<a href="http://www.youtube.com/sproutsvideos">youtube.com/sproutsvideos</a>&quot;. HOW DO WE MAKE HAND-DRAWN ANIMATIONS? 	 Even though our videos are just 3-8 minutes, they do require a lot of different steps and a team of people working together. In total it takes us around one to two months to make just one video, depending on the time we spend on research, the length of the video and the number of revisions it takes. STEPS IN MAKING A SPROUTS VIDEO 1. Research 2. Script writing 3. Fact-checking 4. Script editing 5. Storyboarding in black and white 6. Coloring of storyboards 7. Live drawing to create animation 8. Voice recording 9. Video editing to match voice with animation 10. Sound effects and music 11. Cover image and title OUR TEAM Script: Jonas Koblin Artist: Pascal Gaggelli Voice: Matt Abbott or Mithrill Coloring: Nalin Editing: Peera Lertsukittipongsa Production: Selina Bador Sound Design: Miguel Ojeda Fact-checking : Ludovico Saint Amour di Chanaz This idea presented in the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUWn_TJTrnU">video</a> is indeed simplistic. Simplistic not to be confused with easy. Yes, the process of changing a mindset is hard however with the few easy strategies presented in the video it is possible. - Written by Thompson Falls High School Students

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🌟 Join us nerds and get smarter faster🌟 We welcome you with a shoutout on Patreon🌟 Early access to new videos (ad-free)🌟 Vote for next video thumbnail🌟 Exclusive brain of the month drawing🌟 Join our community on Discord🌟 Know that we love you

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🌟 Join our board of learners🌟 Get your own hand-drawn Sprouts avatar (nice for WhatsApp)🌟 With a yearly subscription to this tier you get the-flat rate license for commercial use of all our videos🌟 Plus all the other benefits

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🌟 Get an original Sprouts drawing from one of our upcoming videos, drawn on paper by hand, and signed by our artist, Pascal. We will send it to you beautifully framed with insured express shipping🌟 Plus all the other benefits

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