It's a Wonderful Sponge/Credits

Directed by

Tim Hill

Screenplay by

Jonathan Aibel

Glenn Berger

Michael Kvamme

Story by

Tim Hill

Kyle McCulloch

Produced by

Christopher Chase

Cale Boyter

Craig Sost

Mary Parent

Executive Producers

Stephen Hillenburg

Chantal Feghali

Director of Photography

Larry Fong

Production Designer

Gavin Bocquet

Edited by

Nick Kenway

Music by

Hans Zimmer

Creating Supervisor

Vincent Waller

Art Directors

Sue Mondt

Rachel Tiep-Daniels

Co-Producer

Lori J. Nelson

Costume Designer

David Crossman

Supervising Producer of Production

Chris Viscardi

Unit Production Manager

W. Scott Simon

First Assistant Directors

Lynn D'Angona

Michele Panelli-Venetis

Second Assistant Director

Todd Cho

Sequence Supervisor

Sherm Cohen

Background Layout Supervisor

Marco Cinello

Workbook Supervisor

Gordon Hammond

Animation Supervisor

Jacques Daigle

Production Manager

Kristen Caplan

Production Supervisor

J. Elizabeth Ingram

Overseas Animation Supervisors

Insoo Ahn

Ilsung Lee

Yumun Jeong

Minkyung Kang

Byunglo Kim

Sunghun Kim

Sangkyoon Shin

Heeman Yang

Junhee Yu

ILM Visual Effects Supervisor

Eddie Pasquarello

ILM Animation Supervisor

Kevin Andrus

ILM Visual Effects Executive Producer

Jeannie Kim

Sound Designer/Supervising Sound Editor

Tim Nielsen

Re-Recording Mixer & Sound Editor

Jay Rebaru, M.P.S.E.

Re-Recording Mixer

Randy Thom

Cast

Animation Crew Storyboard Artists Wolf-Rüdiger Bloss Zeus Cervas Michael Daley Will Finn Steven E. Gordon Shellie O'Brien Chuck Klein David Stephan Andy Gaskill Mark Zoeller Head of Story Aaron Springer Storyboard Punch-Up Luke Brookshier Original Character Design Stephen Hillenburg Character Designers Bob Camp Mark Colangelo Zach Heffelfinger Rick Rimando Junpei Takayama Head of Character Animation Andrew Overtoom Animation Director Edgar Larrazábal. Background Painters Benjamin Chung Andy Clark Ann Lee

First Assistant Editor Cecilla Hyoun Associate Editor Thorsten Knatz

Visual Effects by: ILM Animation Supervisor Kevin Andrus Animators Michael Amos Chris Bancroft Dave Burgess Mark Donald Adam Dotson Lance Fite Tomoyuki Harashima Kevin O'Hara Tyler Phillips Ron Pucherelli Carlos M. Rosas Ben Rush David Torres Alexis Wanneroy Visual Effects Executive Producer Jeannie Kim Visual Effects Supervisor Eddie Pasquarello Visual Effects Production Managers Alice Kahn Cheryl Kerr Kane Stewart Visual Effects Concept Manager Jason Bride Visual Effects Concept Artists Bianci Draghici Yanick Dusseault Aaron McBride Brett Northcutt Shawn Northcutt Chris Voy Lead Digital Artists Michael Allen Alexis Hall Digital Artists Siau Yene Ang Alberto Martinez Arce Panat Thamrongsombutsakul Rigging TD Vincent Touache Technology Trent Bateman Executive Staff Shawn Brennan Kyuhen Dang Gretchen Libby Jessica Teach

Live Action Crew Casting by Lorna Johnson Set Decorator Danielle Berman Production Coordinator Nathan L. Adler Second Second Assistant Director Chris A. Lee Camera Operator Ben Adler Assistant Camera Ben Anderson Boom Operator Peter Olsted Key Grip Woody Bell Grips Jean Pier Abaji Dwayne Cox Jeff A. Cruz Noah Smith Jason Ward Tom West Woody Woo-Serio Cunyou Zhang

Music Production Services Steven Kofsky

A very special thanks to Clay Hillenburg Karen Hillenburg In Memory of Stephen Hillenburg (1961–2018)