Andrew Overtoom

John Andrew Overtoom (born 1962) is an American animation director, writer, photographer, and cinematographer best known for his work on the 2020 Paramount Pictures 3D animated feature film The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run, where he served as CG Animation Director and Head of Character Animation (HOCA). He was Supervising Animation Director on the Cartoon Network series Clarence and worked on the Disney animated television series Billy Dilley's Super-Duper Subterranean Summer where he was a writer and animation supervisor, as well as on the Nickelodeon animated television series SpongeBob SquarePants,[1] for which he was nominated for the Emmy Awards in 2004, 2007 and 2011.[2][3] My Life with Morrissey is his award-winning first feature film, which he wrote, directed and photographed, and is distributed by MVD.[4][5]

Andrew Overtoom
Born	John Andrew Overtoom 1962 (age 57–58) New Jersey, U.S.
Alma mater	Vancouver Film School Fordham University
Occupation	Animation director, writer, photographer, cinematographer
Years active	1993–present
Known for	SpongeBob SquarePants Clarence My Life with Morrissey All in the Bunker Billy Dilley's Super-Duper Subterranean Summer

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.[6]

Overtoom moved as an animation director over to another Nickelodeon series, SpongeBob SquarePants, since the show had begun in 1999.[7] Laura Fries of Variety praised his work on the 2002 special "SpongeBob's House Party": "Overtoom has created a very stylistic and vivid animated world that smacks of retro pastiche."[8]

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.[9] Critic Stephen Dalton of The Times, in a positive review, wrote that "[B]ehind its high-camp, irreverent tone, Overtoom's film is clearly a twisted tribute."[7] The film won the Audience Award at the 2003 Black Point Film Festival in Wisconsin.[10]

In 2009, Overtoom wrote, animated, and directed the animated short film All in the Bunker.[11]

Overtoom has also served as an animation timer on Family Guy episodes,[12][13] a sheet timer for The Mighty B! and as an animation timer on the Disney Channel animated series Phineas and Ferb.[14] 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 is set for an August 2020 release.

Personal life

Overtoom graduated from the Vancouver Film School,[10] and also studied at Fordham University.[15]

Filmography

Television

Year	Show	Role	Notes
1997	Nightmare Ned	Sheet Timer
1999	The Angry Beavers	Animation timer
	Oh Yeah! Cartoons	Director
1999—2012; 2018—present	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 Boy	Sheet timer
	Ni Hao, Kai-Lan	Sheet timer
2007–2008	Random! Cartoons	Director, Sheet timer
2008–2009	The Mighty B!	Sheet timer
2010; 2012	Phineas and Ferb	Animation timer/Timing director
2012, 2014	Adventure Time	Sheet Timer
2014–2015	Clarence	Supervising Animation Director, Title Art and Photograghy, Stop Motion Animation, Live Action Sequences
2016–2018	Pickle and Peanut	Director
2017	Billy Dilley's Super-Duper Subterranean Summer	Supervising Animation Director, writer, Storyboard Artist
2017–present	Spider-Man	Timing director

Film

Year	Film	Role	Notes
2003	My Life with Morrissey	Director writer producer Cinematographer
2004	The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie	Animation timing director
2007	SpongeBob's Atlantis SquarePantis	Animation Director	Television movie
2009	All in the Bunker	Director writer producer	Animated short film
	SpongeBob's Truth or Square	Animation Director	Television movie
2020	The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run	Head of character animation

References

1. Lerman, Laurence (October 6, 2003). "Meeting Mr. Smiths". Video Business. 23 (40): 21.
2. "SpongeBob SquarePants nominations for the Emmy Awards". Emmy Awards. Retrieved October 23, 2012.
3. "Andrew Overtoom's crew page". My Life With Morrissey. Archived from the original on November 19, 2008. Retrieved October 22, 2012.
4. "My Life With Morrissey (2003)". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved October 23, 2012.
5. "Interview: From SpongeBob to Morrissey –Andrew Overtoom works with the Best". Film Threat. Retrieved October 22, 2012.
6. "Successful Animation School Graduates". Animation School. September 23, 2011. Archived from the original on January 20, 2013. Retrieved October 22, 2012.
7. Dalton, Stephen (February 26, 2005). "My Life with Morrissey". The Times. p. 11.
8. Fries, Laura (May 16, 2002). "SpongeBob's House Party". Variety. Retrieved December 3, 2012.
9. "Interview with Andrew Overtoom". Film Threat. Retrieved October 22, 2012.
10. Burroughs, Alexandra (October 2, 2003). "Cult of Morrissey fodder for feature". Calgary Herald. p. F6.
11. "All in the Bunker". All in the Bunker. Archived from the original on August 28, 2012. Retrieved October 23, 2012.
12. "Overtoom Bio". IN.com. Retrieved October 23, 2012.
13. "Overtoom listing on New York Times". The New York Times. Retrieved October 22, 2012.
14. "Overtoom – Comic Con 2010 TV Panels Schedule". TV Equals. Retrieved October 23, 2012.
15. "Andrew Overtoom". LinkedIn. Retrieved October 22, 2012.

External links

• Andrew Overtoom on IMDb