The Red Herring
Channel: Jacbocford
Date: 2023-09-27

Hello! And thank you for taking the time to watch The Red Herring! My names Jac and I'm an uni acting student based in Australia! 

For one of our many subjects in the course we got given one that was called “Actor as Creator” which essentially gives the actors (students) creative freedom to make their own project which they would direct, write and produce.

I decided to go with an animation! Due to my experience in the later when I was younger! And I decided on making the Red Herring! Which was a project I’ve wanted to make since I was 14. But went no where until today!

I officially finished the animation one month ago from when this was posted and it was presented to an audience. I’ve received nothing but positive feedback. So I decided to share it online which I’m VERY aware is a critiqual I guess place!

Now I’m very aware that some of the animation looks a bit iffy. I know! But I only had 5 weeks to complete this, and to fully complete it this I used a “mo-cap” like free program called ThreeDTracker, which would track my movements and save the motion files. In the animation program itself I would fix the major issues the motion had once converted… I mean it’s free I didn’t expect pure gold tracking! So I mainly focused on the major iffy bits. Of course if I had way more time like a year this project would so much more polished.

Now I want to go onto the VAs, I advertised this place on castingcall as a FREE project, but regardless the three VAs I hired decided to lend their voices anyway. And I can’t be ever so grateful! They really made my characters come to life and made me the happiest 20-year old in the world with this silly little project.
Please consider definitely hiring them for your own projects if you can! They’re all amazing and incredibly fun to work with!

Stacy’s VA: https://www.castingcall.club/seraphim-va

Sasha’s VA: https://www.castingcall.club/Lil-kaiju

Estelle’s VA: https://www.castingcall.club/leilayasmine

Now I’m fully aware that the story isn’t perfect, a lot did get cut because of time and the deadline so.

Regardless Thank you so much for taking the time if you’ve read this!

If for any reason someone wants to contact me into making this silly little project a thing my email is: Jacbocford@gmail.com

Thank you again !