Andrew Overtoom

Andrew Overtoom
Born	1962 (age 61–62) New Jersey, United States
Alma mater	Vancouver Film School Fordham University
Occupation	Animation director, screenwriter, cinematographer
Known for	SpongeBob SquarePants, My Life with Morrissey
Spouse(s)	Tricia Noble

Andrew Overtoom (born c. 1962) is an American animation director, screenwriter and cinematographer best known for his work on the Nickelodeon animated television series SpongeBob SquarePants for which he was nominated for the Emmy Awards in 2004, 2007 and 2011. My Life with Morrissey is his first feature film, which he wrote, directed and photographed.

Career

After graduating, Overtoom attended Pasadena’s yearly Animation Celebration where his feature film No Parachute caught the attention of the American 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."

On 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 directed the 2009 animated short film All in the Bunker.

Overtoom has also served as an animation timer on Family Guy episodes, a sheet timer for The Mighty B! and as an animation timer on the Disney Channel animated series Phineas and Ferb. He is now the supervising animation director on the Cartoon Network animated series Clarence.

Personal life

Overtoom graduated from the Vancouver Film School, and also studied at Fordham University.

He is married to Tricia Noble, who worked as assistant director on his film My Life with Morrissey.

Filmography

Television

Year	Film	Role	Notes
1999	The Angry Beavers	Animation timer
2000-2012	SpongeBob SquarePants	Animation director
2005	Family Guy	Animation timer
2008–2009	Random! Cartoons	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–present	Clarence	Supervising Animation Director

Film

Year	Film	Role	Notes
2003	My Life with Morrissey	Director Writer Cinematographer
2004	The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie	Animation timing director
2007	SpongeBob's Atlantis SquarePantis	Director	Television movie
2009	All in the Bunker	Director Writer Producer	Animated short film
2009	SpongeBob's Truth or Square	Director	Television movie

External links

• Andrew Overtoom at IMDb