Paul Harrison Tibbitt IV (born May 13, 1968) is an American animator, television producer, writer,

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, songwriter, voice actor, and director, best known for working on the animated series ''

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''. After ''SpongeBob'' creator

Stephen Hillenburg Stephen McDannell Hillenburg (August 21, 1961 – November 26, 2018) was an American animator, writer, producer, director, and marine science educator. He is known for creating the Nickelodeon animated television series ''SpongeBob SquarePants' ...

resigned in 2004, Tibbitt took the position of

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for the show. He also took over as the voice of

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, whom Hillenburg had voiced until his resignation. Tibbitt made his feature film directorial debut directing '' The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water''. He studied in the Character Animation program at the

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. In 2015,

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(a creative director) and

Marc Ceccarelli Marc Scott Ceccarelli (born January 4, 1968) is an American animator, director, producer, and writer. He won the 2018 British Academy Children's Awards in International Animation and the 2018 Daytime Emmy Award in Outstanding Children's Animated ...

(a writer and storyboard director) took Tibbitt's place as supervising producer and showrunner. It was also announced that Tibbitt would leave the series after season 9 to work on '' The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run'' (which was produced and released without the involvement of the show's crew by a separate crew), but he lent his directing and writing position to Tim Hill. He now works at

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