Directing
Julia Pott
Born 1985-06-13
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.
Acting credits
7.8A little girl is taken on a mind-bending tour of her distant future.
World of Tomorrow
2015
7.9Emily 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
2017
8.3A 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
2020
3.3Kent 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
2020
NRA short film around the theme of “a beautiful future”
Natural History Museum
2019
Behind the camera
Love and a severed foot at the end of the world.
The Event
2013
NRDo 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
Howard
2010
7.7Oscar 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
2017
7.7Oscar 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
2017
6.0Oscar 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
2012
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
2007
10.0Here 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
2009