Anna Garduno's Creating or Updating a Competitive and Signature Animation Demo

Voiceover Lab

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Anna Garduno's Creating or Updating a Competitive and Signature Animation Demo

Tuesday, January 14, 2025

Begins at 11:00 AM PST | 2:00 PM EST
Check-in begins at: 10:45 AM PST | 1:45 PM EST

2 Hours 30 Minutes

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Monday, January 13, 2025

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SYNOPSIS

Voiceover demos are to voiceover actors, what headshots are to on-camera actors.  They can help you get the attention of voiceover agents and managers, as well as open doors to voiceover auditions and work.  Anna produces voiceover demos and has important ideas to share, so you can create an ear-opening first demo or upgrade your current demo.  Animation VO demos are the focus of this class.  You will learn: 

  • What makes a competitive animation demo and how to structure it. 
  • What copy to use for your animation demo and where to find it.
  • How to avoid common mistakes with your demo.

Do you have an animation demo and would like some feedback on it? Great, Anna will listen to several animation demos from actors in the class.  Note: Due to time constraints, not all submitted demos will be reviewed.


INSTRUCTOR BIO

Anna Garduno

Anna Garduno is a Bicoastal Actor- Producer- Teacher and the founder of Voiceforward. Anna teaches classes for VO Commercials, Animation, Promos, Narration, and Games globally on Zoom. She has been a guest teacher for the NYU Voice Over program, the SAG-AFTRA Foundation, Voice Actors of NYC, VO Atlanta, One Voice conferences in Dallas,Gravy for the Brain, NAVA . Anna is on the faculty of The Tom Toddoroff  Conservatory as well as The Prepnj.  Anna has been nominated best VO teacher on both coasts two years in a row by the readers of Backstage. She is the only nominee to be given this honor for both NY and LA . As an actor Anna has decades of experience as a VO artist. She can currently be heard voicing the character of Palmon on the Digimon animated series as well as Selby the bear on the animated  series Kioka. Anna was nominated best character voice actor for her role as Kiera in the playstation games Jak and Daxter 1 and Daxter 2 by the Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences. 

Anna also produces demos with her students, working closely with each student to write and/or select, and rehearse copy that best suites their unique strengths and range. Voice forward students have booked over a million dollars of jobs on their own, as well as through agents they work with based on their demos.   Agencies that Anna's students work with include VOX, SBV, Innovative, CESD, Access Talent, DPN, DDO, ACM, Atlas and more. 


REQUIREMENTS

Attendees must be present for the entire class (see Duration above).

Instructions on how to submit your animation demo for review will be emailed to those on the RSVP list by 1:00 PM (PT) / 4:00 PM (ET) on Monday, January 13, 2025.

Due to time constraints, not all submitted commercial demos will be reviewed.