Kendelle Hoyer is passionate about storytelling and art, which has been a life-long pursuit since childhood when she decided she wanted to work in animation. Since then, Kendelle has developed her craft of bringing fantastical stories to life. She has been privileged to work on feature films at major animation studios since 2008, and is currently working in Los Angeles as storyboard artist. In this podcast episode, we discuss her work as an artist to put together movies for the big screen. We also discuss what makes a story precious, and how to approach creative storytelling. ---------------- Timestamps: 0:00 - Preview 0:50 - Intro music 1:14 - Introduction 2:01 - Being a storyboard artist 3:17 - What's the difference between the head-of-story and the director? 4:43 - How symbolic thinking helps 5:12 - Story reels 7:05 - Planning 9:45 - A bad story 12:39 - Working on a project 14:35 - The early Pixar and Disney movies 16:31 - Protecting the creative environment 20:02 - The next wave of storytelling 22:20 - Finding the right character 22:57 - Story problem solving 25:54 - What did you study? 26:36 - Storytellers are important 27:44 - Stop complaining and start creating 29:39 - How has symbolic thinking influenced your work? 33:33 - Putting the story first 37:50 - The flow and dialogos 44:38 - The early Disney films 46:17 - AI 49:48 - AI images ---------------- 💻 Website and blog: http://www.thesymbolicworld.com 🔗 Linktree: https://linktr.ee/jonathanpageau 🗣 Join The Symbolic World Community for discussions about symbolism: https://thesymbolicworld.com/subscribe 🔒 BECOME A PATRON Website: https://thesymbolicworld.com/subscribe Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/pageauvideos 📱 SOCIAL MEDIA Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/TheSymbolicWorld Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/pageaujonathan Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jonathan.pageau Our website designers: https://www.resonancehq.io/ My intro was arranged and recorded by Matthew Wilkinson. This show is part of the Spreaker Prime Network, if you are interested in advertising on this podcast, contact us at https://www.spreaker.com/show/5969183/advertisement