Andrew Overtoom | |
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| Born | John Andrew Overtoom |
| Alma mater | Vancouver Film School Fordham University |
| Occupation(s) | 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 |
John Andrew Overtoom 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,[1] for which he was nominated for Emmy Awards in 2004, 2007 and 2011.[2][3] My Life with Morrissey is Overtoom's first award-winning live action feature as a writer/director/cinematographer and is distributed by MVD.[4][5] Other credits include Family Guy and American Dad for Fox TV, and Phineas and Ferb and Dave the Barbarian for Disney.