We were fortunate enough to attend the annual BC Aboriginal Business Awards on October 26, at the Fairmont Hotel, Vancouver. Watch this clip of the Coast Salish Dancers for the opening ceremony, dancing to welcome the myriad of guests on to their traditional territory. It's truly an inspiring piece of culture and inclusivity. Denise Halfyard, Witsuwit'en, Tsimshian, Gitxsan, and parter at Halfyard Studios, is an award recipient herself, receiving the 'Outstanding business Ach

Another success story here at Halfyard Studios! One of our youngest vo students, Thomas, 10years old, recently did a Skype session with Brent. He needed an experienced director/coach to help get his performance to the energy level and acting standard needed to get him noticed. Well notice him they did! He ended up landing another recurring role and an animated series now in production in Vancouver. Way to go Thomas! #KidsVoiceActing #VancouverVoiceCasting #kidsvoicecoaching #

We're pleased to announce VO Student Karim Fahmy has just booked his first voice over job! Brent Halfyard has been working with Karim over the past few months with his animation auditions. Karim has a solid acting background and has appeared in episodes of Prison Break: Resurrection and has an impressive on screen resume. Karim's acting chops and ability to take direction well led to the VO gig as a recurring character in a new animated TV series. He did the first audition fo

Unless otherwise indicated, all voice over jobs (and on camera jobs) require a neutral North American Accent. What is it? A great example is CNN personalties, whom all speak a very neutral American accent. This means no regional reference to where the speaker might originate. In Canada there are varying degrees of discernible accents from East to West. A good reference of what NOT TO DO is the weather channel! Listen carefully to ‘OUT’ and ABOUT’ and SOUTH’ very commonly givi

Ah impersonations, many of us voice talents have had fun as kids and as adults mimicking famous voices from Hollywood movies. I've done my fair share and have been hired on occasion but never really took it too seriously, (focusing more on creating my own characters). But I couldn't resist when one of my agencies sent me an audition asking for a 'Jack Nicholson' voice. It was not a direction suggestion (of merely his style), they wanted a soundalike. I've never really done a

David Raynolds, a regular voice over student here at Halfyard Studios has a speaking role in in DC's Legends of Tomorrow. Watch the trailer where he exclaims with coldness "Off with their heads!" (at 0:16 sec) Another great achievement from this very talent young man! #DCsLegendsofTomorrow #DavidRaynolds #LloydTalent #childvoiceover #HalfyardStudios #HalfyardProductionsVancouver

Another success story at Halfyard Studios! One of our talented young voice over students has just booked a speaking role in a feature film! We need to keep details under wraps (until granted permission to release the full details) but we are very proud! #VancouverProductionhouse #Vancouvervoiceover #LloydTalent #HalfyardProductionsVancouver

I'm pleased to announce that one of my top students from Lloyd Talent has just booked the lead role in a 26 episode animated TV series! (It's not Spongebob BTW!) He did the first audition here at Halfyard Productions studios. Not only did he get a pro sounding audition, but he was given the expert direction needed to push his audition 'over the cliff'. The audition also required him to sing a specific song to be considered. As a result of that audition he got a call back, an