312 - Kendelle Hoyer - Behind the Big Screen

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.<br />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.<br /><br />----------------<br />Timestamps:<br />0:00 - Preview<br />0:50 - Intro music<br />1:14 - Introduction<br />2:01 - Being a storyboard artist<br />3:17 - What's the difference between the head-of-story and the director?<br />4:43 - How symbolic thinking helps<br />5:12 - Story reels<br />7:05 - Planning<br />9:45 - A bad story<br />12:39 - Working on a project<br />14:35 - The early Pixar and Disney movies<br />16:31 - Protecting the creative environment<br />20:02 - The next wave of storytelling<br />22:20 - Finding the right character<br />22:57 - Story problem solving<br />25:54 - What did you study?<br />26:36 - Storytellers are important<br />27:44 - Stop complaining and start creating<br />29:39 - How has symbolic thinking influenced your work?<br />33:33 - Putting the story first<br />37:50 - The flow and dialogos<br />44:38 - The early Disney films<br />46:17 - AI<br />49:48 - AI images<br />----------------<br /><br />💻 Website and blog: http://www.thesymbolicworld.com<br />🔗 Linktree: https://linktr.ee/jonathanpageau <br />🗣 Join The Symbolic World Community for discussions about symbolism: https://thesymbolicworld.com/subscribe <br /><br />🔒 BECOME A PATRON <br />Website: https://thesymbolicworld.com/subscribe <br />Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/pageauvideos <br /><br />📱 SOCIAL MEDIA <br />Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/TheSymbolicWorld <br />Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/pageaujonathan <br />Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jonathan.pageau<br /><br />Our website designers: https://www.resonancehq.io/ <br />My intro was arranged and recorded by Matthew Wilkinson.