John Andrew Overtoom (born May 27, 1962; age 63) is a former SpongeBob SquarePants crew member who mainly worked as an animation director.
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Overtoom worked as a sheet timer during season 1 and as an animation director from seasons 2-8. He returned to the franchise as an animation director in season 12 and The Patrick Star Show, as well as the CG-animation director and head of character animation (HOCA) for The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run. Starting with season 13's "Karen for Spot," he was assigned as the animation director for episodes directed by Dave Cunningham before he would eventually retire from the series. The final episode he worked on was season 15's "Biscuit Ballyhoo." His position as an animation director has since been succeeded by Eric Bryan.
Outside the franchise, he was a 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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