Education
After graduating, Overtoom attended Pasadena’s yearly Animation Celebration where his feature film Number Parachute caught the attention of the American producer Mike Girard.
After graduating, Overtoom attended Pasadena’s yearly Animation Celebration where his feature film Number Parachute caught the attention of the American producer Mike Girard.
My Life with Morrissey is his first feature film, which he wrote, directed and photographed. 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. 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.