Andrew Overtoom

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Template:Person John Andrew Overtoom (born May 27, 1962; age Template:Age) he is a SpongeBob SquarePants crew member. He worked as an animation director and sheet timer from season 1 to season 8, and officially returned to the franchise in season 12, The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run, and The Patrick Star Show onward.

He was usually paired up with Paul Tibbitt, Walt Dohrn, and Kent Osborne during seasons 2 and 3, and split the director role with him and Tom Yasumi. From seasons 4 to 8 and 12 onwards, he became one of the main animation directors along with Yasumi and Alan Smart, later joined by Michelle Bryan in mid-season 12. As of "Karen for Spot," he is teamed with Dave Cunningham, with the exception of "Stuck in an Elevator," which is animation directed by Eric Bryan.

Biography

Recent credits for Andrew Overtoom include The Patrick Star Show and SpongeBob SquarePants as well as 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 as well as the Disney 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 at the Emmy Awards in 2004, 2007, and 2011. Other credits include Family Guy and American Dad! for the Fox Broadcasting Company and Dave the Barbarian and Phineas and Ferb for Disney.

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