Julia Schoeffling - Casting Director, Co-Founder of The Halp Network | AW64
07/13/22 • 32 min
Voice and performance capture casting director and co-founder of The Halp Network Julia Schoeffling joins us in this week’s episode to talk about her work, latest projects, as well as some personal stories. Julia is someone who can proudly claim that she’s seen every angle of the industry – and she’s just published a book that can give you an exclusive glimpse of the voice and performance capture industry. More impressively, Julia has been using her position in the industry to help creatives in every area of the industry to book jobs, most notably in game production through The Halp Network.
Tune in as Julia talks about The Halp Network, her book, and her life! She starts off by introducing The Halp Network and how it helps up-and-coming creatives jumpstart their careers. Then, she moves on to tell us about, “The Art and Business of Acting for Video Games”. Here, she shares what pushed her to write the book as well as some tantalizing tidbits from the book. Julia also shares her insights about the cool change the pandemic caused within the game production industry.
Timestamps:
[9:46] Julia talks about The Halp Network
[11:01] How The Halp Network finds talents
[14:12] Julia talks about her book
[18:17] Julia talks about her writing process and the challenges she faced
[21:34] How the pandemic changed the game production industry
[26:08] Julia gives advice to aspiring voice actors looking to break into motion capture
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Get a copy of The Art and Business of Acting for Video Games by Julia Schoeffling HERE!
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Alicyn's Wonderland | Inside the World of Animation & Games
Voice and performance capture casting director and co-founder of The Halp Network Julia Schoeffling joins us in this week’s episode to talk about her work, latest projects, as well as some personal stories. Julia is someone who can proudly claim that she’s seen every angle of the industry – and she’s just published a book that can give you an exclusive glimpse of the voice and performance capture industry. More impressively, Julia has been using her position in the industry to help creatives in every area of the industry to book jobs, most notably in game production through The Halp Network.
Tune in as Julia talks about The Halp Network, her book, and her life! She starts off by introducing The Halp Network and how it helps up-and-coming creatives jumpstart their careers. Then, she moves on to tell us about, “The Art and Business of Acting for Video Games”. Here, she shares what pushed her to write the book as well as some tantalizing tidbits from the book. Julia also shares her insights about the cool change the pandemic caused within the game production industry.
Timestamps:
[9:46] Julia talks about The Halp Network
[11:01] How The Halp Network finds talents
[14:12] Julia talks about her book
[18:17] Julia talks about her writing process and the challenges she faced
[21:34] How the pandemic changed the game production industry
[26:08] Julia gives advice to aspiring voice actors looking to break into motion capture
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Follow Julia Schoeffling:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/juliabs
Website: https://www.juliabscasting.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/juliabscasting
Get a copy of The Art and Business of Acting for Video Games by Julia Schoeffling HERE!
Check out The Halp Network:
Twitter: https://twitter.com/thehalpnetwork
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/thehalpnetwork
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thehalpnetwork/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thehalpnetwork
Website: https://halpnet.com/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/thehalpnetwork
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Timestamps:
[0:32] How Billy landed his Futurama roles
[6:42] How Billy became a part of Disenchantment
[7:49] The actor that inspired King Rulo’s voice
[14:35] The battles Billy struggled with and won
[20:07] Meeting Mel Blanc
[26:03] Meeting Michael Jordan
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[10:00] David on why he owes Rob Paulsen so much
[14:58] How David became the new voice actor of Ferb
[19:43] David talks about DOTA
[20:57] How David ‘acted his way on to the show’
[22:26]David does a Ridley Jones impression
[23:30]What it’s like to work with the wonderful Chris Nee
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Alicyn's Wonderland - Julia Schoeffling - Casting Director, Co-Founder of The Halp Network | AW64
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Welcome to Alicyn's Wonderland. I'm your host, Alicyn Packard. Join us as we journey through the looking glass and down the rabbit hole into the wild and wonderful world of animation and video games. A do a girl a favor, and please subscribe to this podcast and go on iTunes and leave us a good review. If you like the show, please help spread the word it really helps us to get heard by more people. Thanks so much. Have you ever wondered what goes into casting some of the video gam
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