Steve Wolfhard is a Canadian artist who is best known for being a writer and storyboard artist on the animated television series ''

Adventure Time ''Adventure Time'' is an American fantasy animated television series created by Pendleton Ward for Cartoon Network and distributed by Warner Bros. Domestic Television. The series follows the adventures of a boy named Finn (Jeremy Shada) and ...

''.

History

Steve Wolfhard grew up in Kitchener and then

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, Ontario and graduated from Sheridan College's Classical Animation program in 2003. After graduating, he worked as a character designer for the series ''

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'', and ''

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''. 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

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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 for seasons

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. In January 2017, he announced that he was writing and storyboarding on the Cartoon Network series, '' Summer Camp Island'', which premiered in 2018.https://twitter.com/wolfhard/status/826131213081575424

Accolades

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

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nomination along with his then-storyboarding partner Tom Herpich for the fifth season episode " Be More". In 2017 he received the Doug Wright Spotlight Award (colloquially known as "The Nipper") for his book ''The Collected Cat Rackham'' (

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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)