Uploaded October 2023 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
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 video 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.
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Timestamps:
0:00 - Preview
0:50 - Intro music
1:14 - Introduction
2:01 - Being a storyboard artist
3:17 - What's the difference between 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
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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 video 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.
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Timestamps:
0:00 - Preview
0:50 - Intro music
1:14 - Introduction
2:01 - Being a storyboard artist
3:17 - What's the difference between 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
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💻 Website and blog: thesymbolicworld.com
🔗 Linktree: https://linktr.ee/jonathanpageau
🗣 Join The Symbolic World Community for discussions about symbolism: thesymbolicworld.com/subscribe
🔒 BECOME A PATRON
Website: thesymbolicworld.com/subscribe
Patreon: patreon.com/pageauvideos
📱 SOCIAL MEDIA
Facebook: facebook.com/TheSymbolicWorld
Twitter: twitter.com/pageaujonathan
Instagram: instagram.com/jonathan.pageau
Our website designers: resonancehq.io
My intro was arranged and recorded by Matthew Wilkinson.
