The Animation Demo with Anna Garduno

Voiceover Lab

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The Animation Demo with Anna Garduno

Wednesday, January 28, 2026

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SYNOPSIS

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

In this class you will learn how to create and/or update your animation demo with insight from actor/demo producer Anna Garduno, 

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 create text for your animation demo.
  • Determine the optimal length of your animation demo.
  • Address common demo mistakes.
  • Hone in on what is needed to make a great animation demo.

This class will help voiceover actors better understand how animation demos are created, refreshed (updated) and best demonstrate your voiceover acting skills. 


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

Know the cancellation deadline (see above).

Small group format with a maximum of 14 actors participating.

This class is in person and at the new Don LaFontaine Voiceover Lab inside the SAG-AFTRA Foundation's Meryl Streep Center for Performing Artists in Los Angeles:

5757 Wilshire Blvd. - Suite PH1
Los Angeles, CA 90036

Note: The new Don LaFontaine Voiceover Lab is no longer on the Mezzanine Level, it is on the Penthouse (PH) Level.   No need to wait downstairs, just go  straight to the PH level when you arrive.

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