Steve Wolfhard is a Canadian cartoonist, storyboard artist, writer, and director. He was a writer and storyboard artist on the animated television series ''

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'' and is a supervising director on its spinoff '' Adventure Time: Fionna and Cake''.

History

Steve Wolfhard grew up in Kitchener and then Midland, Ontario and graduated from

Sheridan College Sheridan College Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning, formerly Sheridan College of Applied Arts and Technology, is a public polytechnic institute partnered with private Canadian College of Technology and Trades operating campuses ...

's Classical Animation program in 2003. After graduating, he worked as a character designer for the series ''

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'', and '' Kid vs. Kat''. Wolfhard also did illustration work for a series of graphic novels for children entitled ''Zombie Chasers''. Wolfhard first started working on ''

'' as a storyboard revisionist during the show's third season.Ward, Pendleton (Series creator). 2014. "From Bad to Worse" ommentary track ''Adventure Time'' Season Three VD Los Angeles, CA:

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. Series creator

Pendleton Ward Pendleton Ward is an American animator, screenwriter, producer, director, and voice actor who has worked for Cartoon Network Studios, Frederator Studios, and Netflix Animation. He created the series ''Adventure Time'', the Internet series ''Brave ...

offered him a position as a storyboard artist, but Wolfhard initially turned it down; he later changed his mind, and contacted Ward to see if he would be able to rescind his rejection. Ward allowed him to, and Wolfhard was then partnered with

Tom Herpich Thomas Herpich is an American artist who is best known for being a writer and storyboard artist on the animated television series ''Adventure Time''. History Herpich graduated from the School of Visual Arts (SVA), and was known in indie cartoo ...

for seasons five through

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. In January 2017, he announced that he was writing and storyboarding on the Cartoon Network series, ''

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'', which premiered in 2018.

Accolades

Steve Wolfhard's work on ''Adventure Time'' gained him a

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nomination along with his then-storyboarding partner

for the fifth season episode "

Be More "Be More" is the twenty-eighth episode of the fifth season of the American animated television series ''Adventure Time''. It was written and storyboarded by Tom Herpich and Steve Wolfhard, from a story by Patrick McHale, Kent Osborne, Pendle ...

". In 2017 he received the Doug Wright Spotlight Award (colloquially known as "The Nipper") for his book ''The Collected Cat Rackham'' ( Koyama Press).

Filmography

Television

References

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* * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Wolfhard, Steve Living people 21st-century Canadian screenwriters Canadian television writers Canadian animators Canadian male voice actors Canadian storyboard artists Canadian male television writers Year of birth missing (living people) Canadian character designers