I first spoke with the incredible animator and Director of SpongeBob Squarepants and My Life With Morrissey Andrew Overtoom via Skype from his Los Angeles home back in March of 2013. We spoke twice, actually, and each time I was entirely enthralled and entertained by his stories.
Andrew is the second out of three people (Trent Noble, Andrew Overtoom and Yann Tremblay) I spoke with who all graduated from the same class in the Vancouver Film School (VFS) Classical Animation program in 1997. That class turned out some amazing talent.
In what turned out to be an epic and thoroughly enjoyable interview, Andrew told some great stories about how he got into animation, about his first jobs in the industry, how he became the Director of SpongeBob, and about trying to get his crazy idea All In the Bunker made into an animation series for television.
Andrew is also a musician and a very cool photographer. He recently had his show id at The Advocate & Gochis Galleries. I really love his work. You can check it out on his website here. You can also see some of his music videos (along with some other things) on his wife Tricia's Youtube channel here.
Read the full interview with Andrew Overtoom here on the VFS blog.
