The Animation Demo with Anna Garduno

Voiceover Lab

virtual

The Animation Demo with Anna Garduno

Wednesday, January 28, 2026

Tuesday, January 27, 2026



SYNOPSIS

2026 is here!  It's time to start the year with a shiny new or updated animation demo.

Demo producer and voiceover actor, Anna Garduno will provide key insights and guidance to help you create an animation demo that is unmistakably your own. 

You will learn how to:

  • Make an authentic, effective animation demo that highlights your acting strengths.
  • Focus on character choices, voices and development. 
  • Locate, select and/or write material for your animation demo.
  • Determine the optimal length of your animation demo.
  • Address common demo mistakes.
  • Think strategically and hone in on what it takes to make a current and compelling. animation demo.

Whether you are a beginner, an advanced level voice actor, or somewhere in the middle, a demo can help elevate your acting opportunities.  Register today and create “The Animation Demo “ that best represents you in 2026.


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

This class is virtual and will take place over Zoom.  The Join Details (Zoom link and other related information) will be emailed to those on the RSVP list no later than 1 hour before the start time of the class.

Know the cancellation deadline (see above).

Small group format with a maximum of 14 actors participating.

Participants are expected to be present for the entire program.  See Duration above.