Andrew Overtoom

Overtoom worked across screenwriter, film director, writer, photographer and animator. This article rests on 2 catalogued photographs and 2 scholarly references drawn from named institutional registers. Every statement below returns to a source shown in the evidence panel; where the record is silent or divided, the article says so instead of resolving it.

• Name — Andrew Overtoom • Birth Name — John Andrew Overtoom • Born — 27 May 1962 • Birthplace — Edison, New Jersey, U.S. • Known for — SpongeBob SquarePants Clarence My Life with Morrissey All in the Bunker Billy Dilley's Super-Duper Subterranean Summer • Occupation — Animation director, writer, photographer, cinematographer • Education — Vancouver Film School Fordham University • Years Active — 1993–present

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. 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." 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 "[B]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. In 2009, Overtoom and Vancouver Film School classmates Trent Noble and Yann Trembley animated the CG short film All in the Bunker. 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.

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

• 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 Boy — Sheet 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

Andrew Overtoom was born in 1962 in New Jersey. Overtoom held the nationality of United States. Overtoom was educated at Vancouver Film School and Fordham University. Overtoom worked as screenwriter, film director, writer and photographer, and the authority record catalogues a further 1 occupations under the same name, among them animator.

Overtoom worked for the screen, as screenwriter and film director. 9 films survive in the institutional catalogues, spanning 2003 to 2010. Among them are The Sponge Who Could Fly (2003), My Life with Morrissey (2003), Pest of the West (2008), SpongeBob's Truth or Square (2009), All in the Bunker (2009) and SpongeBob SquarePants vs. The Big One (2009). The whole run is set out in the catalogue below.

• Year — Film — Role — Notes • 2001 — Constant Payne — Animation director — Animated short film • 2003 — My Life with Morrissey — Director Writer Producer Music supervisor Cinematographer — Independent–feature film • Real Life With Morrissey — Director Writer Producer Editor Cinematographer — 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 — Director Writer Producer Animator Cinematographer — 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