![]() You have to do that to find interesting projects. He's one of the smartest executives I've ever met. I think that's one of the coolest things about Fred Seibert and his company. They were open to anyone and I did it and I was straight out of school. They did a series called “Random Cartoons” where they would ask people to come in and pitch them ideas whether they had industry experience or not. It was just a boy and his dog living in a magical world where they save a princess – that, and other ideas I thought were funny. I was on vacation with my family and boarded out a story, stream-of-consciousness style. ![]() I saw Finn and Jake just sitting there – a kid with a bear hat and his bulldog riding on a boat – and I built the world around them and my initial sketches. At the time, I sketched a lot and was trying to find ideas to pitch. Then, after I graduated, I heard about Frederator doing their pilot program. They didn't buy it or even give me feedback on it. That was the very first incarnation of Adventure Time, that minute-long pitch to a couple of execs. Nickelodeon came to Cal Arts and asked all of the students to pitch one minute long shorts to them, so I tried it out. As soon as they put it on YouTube, it went viral. It was nominated for an Annie Award, but no one had seen it because it hadn’t aired yet. I pitched the Adventure Time pilot to Frederator right after I finished school at Cal Arts. I started making flip books in elementary school and got my bachelor’s degree in character animation. PW: My mom was an artist and she had friends who knew about animation, so I've always been intrigued by animation. This is a silly-smart world punctuated with noodle-armed pounds and a few scares by dint of – what else? – adventure.Ī discussion with Adventure Time creator PENDLETON WARD. The unaffected acoustic theme, which Pen also sings, establishes the fever dream folk tales that follow. Pendleton Ward's cartwheel of an opening sequence to his Adventure Time series sports all the warm fuzzies of a My Little Pony rainbow and Conan the Destroyer's Atlantean Sword. He is survived by his wife, Judy, who helped run his business and manage his performances, as well as two grown sons, John and David, by a former marriage.Through wood and wasteland, penguins cuddle at the outset of the wonderful Land of Ooo. aerobatic team, flying in competition at Moscow in 1966 Magdeburg, East Germany, 1968 Hullavington, England, 1970, and Paris, 1972. He had been featured on television’s “ABC Wide World of Sports,” “That’s Incredible,” “Thrill Seekers” and “The Art Scholl Story.” His TV and film credits included air sequences in “Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom,” “Amelia Earhart” and “The Amazing Howard Hughes.” After receiving a master’s degree at California State University, Los Angeles, he taught aeronautics in San Bernardino.Īfter 18 years, he decided he was stagnating and quit to become a full-time stunt pilot. ![]() San Antonio College and eventually California State University, San Jose, where he earned a degree in aeronautics. The bespectacled stunt pilot came to California from Milwaukee as a young man, entered Mt. “An inverted flat spin was nothing for him. “Something mechanical must have happened,” he speculated. “He was the best.” Scholl performed annually for the association’s air show, and Ardy said Scholl was extremely devoted to aviation-especially to the technical aspects.įormer TWA pilot Bob Van Ausdell agreed, calling Scholl, “absolutely the best in his field.” “He was good,” said Jim Ardy, a retired Republic Airlines captain and founder of the Desert Sportsman Pilots Assn. He operated Art Scholl Aviation, a school and aircraft rental business in Rialto, where on Tuesday calls were being received from pilots and aviation figures across the country. Scholl also thrilled air show crowds by flying upside down a few feet off the ground to pick up a ribbon with the tail of his plane, while streaming red, white and blue smoke. He called his most notable stunt the lomcevak, the Czech word for “headache.” It involved a series of forward end-over-end rolls-or front somersaults-and it was banned in East European countries because of its danger. ![]() Scholl was well known throughout the country for his stunt flying at air shows, usually in his Chipmunk monoplane and frequently with his mixed-breed dog, Aileron, clinging to his shoulder as he performed loops and rolls. His Pitts Special then dove into the ocean.ĭebris from the plane was found Monday evening, the Coast Guard said, but neither the wreckage nor the pilot was recovered, and by Tuesday morning, the hunt was called off. ![]()
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