Julia Pott
Directing
Biography
Julia Pott (born June 13, 1985) is a British animator, illustrator, screenwriter, producer, and voice actress. She is the creator of Cartoon Network's Summer Camp Island, as well as the voice of Susie McCallister. Pott, having an American mother, spent her childhood summers in The Hamptons and from the age of 6 was regularly drawing, telling people she wanted to be a cartoonist and work for Disney. She completed a Foundation Diploma in Art and Design at Chelsea College of Arts in 2004, and studied Animation and Illustration at Kingston University, completing her Bachelor of Arts (Hons) in 2007. While at Kingston, her short animation My First Crush gained her attention and by 2012 had received nearly 1.5 million views on YouTube. After graduating from Kingston, Pott made animated visuals for musical groups The Decemberists and Bat for Lashes, then enrolled in an MA in animation from the Royal College of Art, where she directed the animated shorts Howard (2010) and Belly (2011). After graduating with honors in 2011, she moved to Brooklyn and then to Los Angeles. Career Pott's films have competed at festivals around the world, including Sundance and SXSW. After working as a writer on the animated television series Adventure Time, Pott developed her own series Summer Camp Island which debuted on Cartoon Network in 2018 and is now shown on HBO Max. The series was based on a short film by the same name which appeared at Sundance and focuses on an elephant named Oscar and his best friend Hedgehog and their adventures at a magical summer camp. In November 2021, Pott also joined production studio Hornet and said she hoped to see her work used in fashion and textiles.
Known For
Unlikely heroes Finn and Jake are buddies who traverse the mystical Land of Ooo. The best of friends, our heroes always find themselves in the middle of escapades. Finn and Jake depend on each other through thick and thin.
Adventure Time
Oscar and Hedgehog are dropped off at a strange summer camp, full of fantastical things ranging from magical camp counselors to sticky notes that are portals to other dimensions.
Summer Camp Island
Follow Grizz, Panda and Ice Bear – as their younger baby selves – traveling in a magical box to fantastic new worlds searching for a place to call home. Along the way, they meet new friends, learn a few lessons and discover that “home” can mean wherever they are, as long as they’re together.
We Baby Bears
A little girl is taken on a mind-bending tour of her distant future.
World of Tomorrow
Kent is turning 50. He's not thrilled about it. His plans for a fun weekend with Sarah are upended when his friend Kev unexpectedly arrives to build him a wall.
Build the Wall
Emily Prime is swept into the brain of an incomplete backup clone of her future self.
World of Tomorrow Episode Two: The Burden of Other People's Thoughts
A hidden memory sends David across the far reaches of time and space to solve a deadly mystery involving his time-traveling future selves.
World of Tomorrow Episode Three: The Absent Destinations of David Prime
Oscar has to accept that his totally normal sleepover with Hedgehog isn't going to be totally normal. Short created as part of Cartoon Network's Shorts Program.
Summer Camp Island
Using interviews with people about their first experiences with love, this short film uses animal counterparts to tell their tales of humor and heartache.
My First Crush
Oscar is coming of age, against his better judgment. In doing so he must experience the necessary evil of leaving something behind, but he can still feel it in the pit of his stomach.
Belly
A short film around the theme of “a beautiful future”
Natural History Museum
Combined release of the first three parts of Don Hertzfeldt's World of Tomorrow series; World of Tomorrow, World of Tomorrow Episode 2: The Burden of Other People's Thoughts and World of Tomorrow Episode Three: The Absent Destinations of David Prime.
World of Tomorrow: The First Three Episodes
Here Come The Waves: The Hazards of Love Visualized" is an animated collaboration between the band and four filmmakers: Guilherme Marcondes, Julia Pott, Peter Sluszka and Santa Maria. The Los Angeles Times describes it as "a tumbling series of visuals with four distinct aesthetic styles. Peter Sluszka's ultra-slow motion capture of exploding mushrooms and elegantly disseminating seed pods … Julia Pott's line art of wolves and foxes hovering in geometric constellations … Guilherme Marcondes' renderings of skeletons caught among leafless branches and verdant human arms that unfurl like ferns… Santa Maria provides context…with cosmic, computer-generated vistas, cartoons of splintering bones.
Here Come The Waves: The Hazards of Love Visualized
Love and a severed foot at the end of the world.
The Event
Do you remember when we met? You were brilliant, witty, gorgeous to look at...something's changed. Julia Pott's animated short from the Royal College of Art 2010