Andrew Overtoom

John Andrew Overtoom (born May 27, 1962) is an American animation director, writer, photographer, and cinematographer. Recent credits include Nickelodeon's The Patrick Star Show as well as the animated feature film The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run, where he served as CG animation director and head of character animation. He was supervising animation director on the Cartoon Network series Clarence, as well as Disney XD’s animated television series Billy Dilley's Super-Duper Subterranean Summer where he was a writer and animation supervisor. In 1999, after two years as an animation timer on The Angry Beavers, Overtoom was hired as an animation director on the Nickelodeon animated television series SpongeBob SquarePants, for which he was nominated for Emmy Awards in 2004, 2007 and 2011. My Life with Morrissey is Overtoom's first award-winning live action feature as a writer/director/cinematographer and is distributed by MVD. Other credits include Family Guy and American Dad for Fox TV, and Phineas and Ferb and Dave the Barbarian for Disney.

Career After graduating, Overtoom attended Pasadena's yearly Animation Celebration, where his feature film No Parachute caught the attention of producer Mike Girard. Girard hired Overtoom onto Nickelodeon's The Angry Beavers, where he worked as an animation timer.

Overtoom moved as an animation director over to another Nickelodeon series, SpongeBob SquarePants, since the show had begun in 1999.

In August 2001, Overtoom began the production of his first feature film My Life with Morrissey, which he wrote, directed and photographed. The film premiered in 2003. Critic Stephen Dalton of The Times, in a positive review, wrote that "ehind its high-camp, irreverent tone, Overtoom's film is clearly a twisted tribute." The film won the Audience Award at the 2003 Black Point Film Festival in Wisconsin. The offbeat comedy, written and directed by Overtoom, is a satire of modern-day sitcom culture and network television and stars Kurtwood Smith, Cheryl Hines and Don Novello.

Overtoom has served as a timing director on episodes of the Fox and Disney Channel animated series Family Guy and Phineas and Ferb, and a sheet timer for The Mighty B!. He served as the supervising animation director on the Cartoon Network series Clarence and the Disney XD animated series Billy Dilley's Super-Duper Subterranean Summer. In early 2018, Overtoom returned to SpongeBob SquarePants to work on season 12 as an animation director. He was subsequently hired as CG Animation Director at Paramount Pictures for the first all CG SpongeBob feature The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run, where he created a CG animation style constructed from commonly used techniques of 2D and stop-motion animation, relying heavily on his past work on SpongeBob and also Nick Park's Oscar winning Wallace and Gromit short films The Wrong Trousers and A Close Shave. Overtoom was then promoted to Head of Character Animation (HOCA) by Paramount in the summer of 2018.

In 2019, he headed to Montreal to continue production on the new SpongeBob feature film at Mikros Image, continuing his duties as CG Animation Director and Head of Character Animation (HOCA). The SpongeBob feature released in theaters in Canada on August 14, 2020.

Personal life Overtoom graduated from the Vancouver Film School's Classical Animation program, and also previously earned a Bachelors Degree in History at Fordham University CLC.

Filmography

Television Year Show Role Notes 1999 The Angry Beavers Animation timer Oh Yeah! Cartoons Director 1999–2012, 2018–2024 SpongeBob SquarePants Animation director, Sheet timer, Footage provider, Songwriter 2004 Dave the Barbarian Timing director 2005 Family Guy Animation timer 2006–2007 The Emperor's New School Timing director 2007 Squirrel BoySheet timer Ni Hao, Kai-Lan 2007–2008 Random! Cartoons Director, Sheet timer 2008–2009 The Mighty B! Sheet timer 2012–2013 Phineas and Ferb Animation timer/Timing director 2013–2014 Adventure Time Sheet timer 2014–2015 Clarence Supervising Animation Director, Title Art and Photography, Stop Motion Animation, Live Action Sequences 2016–2018 Pickle and Peanut Director 2017 Billy Dilley's Super-Duper Subterranean Summer Supervising Timing Director, writer, Storyboard Artist, Dialogue director Spider-Man Timing director 2021–2022 The Patrick Star Show Animation director

Film Year Film Role Notes 2001 Constant Payne Animation director Animated short film 2003 My Life with Morrissey DirectorWriterProducer Music supervisorCinematographer Independent–feature film Real Life With Morrissey DirectorWriterProducerEditorCinematographer Documentary film 2004 The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie Animation timing director Live-Action Animated Comedy Film 2005 Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story Animation timer Direct-to-video The Proud Family Movie Timing director SpongeBob's The Endless Summer Animation director Animated short film 2007 SpongeBob's Atlantis SquarePantis Animation director Television movie 2009 All in the Bunker DirectorWriterProducerAnimatorCinematographer Animated short film SpongeBob's Truth or Square Animation director 10th Anniversary special 2011 Legends of Bikini Bottom Animation director Anthology film Sandy's Vacation in Ruins Animation director Animated short film 2015 Jammers Animatic director Animated short film 2020 The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run Head of character animation Live-Action Animated Comedy Film 2023 SpongeBob SquarePants Presents The Tidal Zone Animation director Anthology film 2024 SpongeBob's Kreepaway Kamp Animation director 25th Anniversary special