Bread is Dead

Project Overview

Plot Synopsis

Bread is Dead is an animated short film featuring the cute little protagonist, Bread, who you can guess by the title meets his demise. His mysterious reincarnation becomes the center of conspiracy involving pastry comrades, criminal lemons, cardboard funerals, and a final mission to ending some serious spiritual cycles.

Voice Actors:

This animation is a fast paced punch to your funny bone, so don't worry about performing TOO professionally, authenticity and comedic delivery is more valued with characters like these! Feel free to be CREATIVE with your voice acting, let loose, and have fun with the characters!

IMPROV IS WELCOME

Inspiration for voices should consider 2000s-2010s TV cartoons, Adventure Time, Flapjack, etc. as well 90s,2000s, and modern anime! ~

The animation is a visual spectacle with around ~12 minutes of length, most of the lines are snappy / one-liners to condense the humor and plot, meaning there aren't many lines per character, so make it count!

ALL ROLES CAN BE PERFORMED BY ANY GENDER, IDENTITY, RACE, NO CHARACTER IS TAILORED OR TIED TO ANY SPECIFIC OF THOSE 3, THOSE SOCIAL CONSTRUCTS DONT EVEN EXIST IN MY UNIVERSE

PLEASE TRY TO HAVE CLEAR, HIGH QUALITY AUDIO but if not we can work things out

Contact:

Please reach out to me here or DM me on socials for any inquires about ANYTHING! @spicevipe on all things :)

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  • 2 New Roles! and Deadline tightened! (also thank you everyone!)

    BREAD IS UPDATEDEAD ~

    Check out the TWO NEW CHARACTERS in need of some voices! They're a caterwauling and creepy duo, Ms. Crackle and Unhappy Appy!

    I'd love to see what voices you can audition into them!

    Production for this film has been full force, and I noticed I'd prefer a workflow of animating WITH the assigned final voice actors, so:
    the DEADLINE has been shortened from the end of July, to July 5th!

    As well, I wanted to say all the auditions so far have been AMAZING, its going to be crazy hard to decide who gets what roles, but theres some fierce submissions! Production on this film is full force, I already started shortlisting those I felt a click with in the submissions thus far! I'm constantly checking every audition, so keep them coming! Feel free to do any retakes, improv, or reach out for notes on improving.

Project Roles: Bread Pandora Lemon Lime Murd the Mayor Takoyaki Miss Swiss Pavlova Fairy B. Garlic Gal Breadstone Breadbot Ms. Crackle Unhappy Appy
Voice Actor
Voice Actor
Bread
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Deferred: Agreed Amount
Role assigned to: jerm

The star of the show, the front-lining loaf of the film!

Bread is whimsical, blunt, spontaneous, and has a chaotic spark that swings from dumb to divine. He's a very practical character to the point it seems like he has no internal monologue, but his simplicity is his superpower. He usually comes off as carbs-for-brains (not entirely wrong) but he's still the most carefree and loveable slice to run around the Foodiverse

Voice Inspiration and Guidelines:

Think: Spongebob's early day voice acting (the performance not pitch), it had a flow that was down to earth, immersive, expressive, funny, and authentic!

1. Unapologetic explosion of inner thoughts, emotional versatility, impulsive wonder and novelty, and ADHD

2. Bread is unhinged and funny without trying too hard, all about delivery, not volume! even though bread can sometimes yell so loud it breaks the light barrier

3. I don't have a specific vision for how he sounds, but in the realm of: younger, masculine leaning or androgynous, more goofy or just a normal voice, and most importantly blunt and funny. Versatility between all would be ideal. I'd love to hear any and all interpretations of the little guy!

feel free to message me if you want more insight into his character or the tone of the film!

Language:
  • english
Voice description:
  • animation
  • male young adult
  • neutral
  • animation/character
  • androgynous

  • Hey! That's not true! I finished half of first grade before... I think!?

  • THANK YOU CRUSTY LITTLE CREATURE, BUT I GOT LAUNDRY TO DO!

  • Haha. I hate this town so much. (tweaking) but I can never leave...

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Voice Actor
Voice Actor
Pandora
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Deferred: Agreed Amount
Role assigned to: MJ The Fae

The iron-willed tyrant set in a path of destruction and hunt

Pandora is the haunting biomechanical overload of Foodtopia. She destroys everything in her path,  silently, intentionally, as cold as her metal skin. She rarely moves or speaks, but when she does, its chillingly calculated. Not just a villain to run away from, but an idea that's manifested a form.

Pandora, despite wiping districts and land without effort, is after Bread, but the reasons for such are unclear. Wielding a poetically elitist attitude, Pandora is clearly monolithic coded.

Voice Inspiration and Guidelines:

Think: T-X from Terminator 3 meets Maleficent, but almost too serious its can be quite literally cartoonish in unserious context. Regardless, delivery should reflect her inner mechanics. 

Her vocal tone holds a dark mature femme energy, comprised, and precise. She can show emotion, but rarely so. When she does cracks- it matters.

Language:
  • english
Voice description:
  • Robot
  • animation
  • animation/character
  • neutral
  • female adult

  • Damn it..! Bread is more cunning than I calculated for such a... simple carb!

  • Citadel, purge them all.

  • At last, the vessel present, and its encasement, recrudescent.

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Voice Actor
Voice Actor
Lemon
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Deferred: Agreed Amount
Role assigned to: Adora Rosegold

The sourmouth with style and sass

Lemon is half of the diabolic duo she's in with Lime. They complete each other, yet still hold a dynamic. Lemon is out for wrongdoings but will do it in the most fierce way. She'll liter at a park just to show the park who's cunty.

Voice Inspiration and Guidelines:

Think: Panty from Panty and Stocking meets Regina George

Mean Girl energy but still down to earth. She's not absolutely evil, just wants pretty things through not so pretty ways of obtaining them, but doesn't mind staying home and scrolling through socials instead.

Be unserious, unhinged, cunt! I want to really perpetuate that silly early 80s-90s anime villain duo with these two!

Voice description:
  • female young adult
  • female adult
  • animation/character

  • Lime, we're in fashionable fucking debt right now!

  • Give us ALL the designer you have, or we’re marking everything up with PERMANENT MARKER!

  • I need a shot of vodka followed by a shot to the head after that

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Voice Actor
Voice Actor
Lime
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Deferred: Agreed Amount
Role assigned to: Da dude/Charles "Finn" Murtha

The zesty sidekick with no impulse control

If Lemon is the one to think of a crime, Lime won't be hesitant to put plans to action. He's similar to Lime, but a bit more dimensional, though just as cunttt.Truly the frontliner of the sassy man apocolypse

Voice Inspiration and Guidelines:

Think: James from Team Rocket but even fruitier, and FLAMBOYANT

Be unserious, unhinged, and dramatic! I want to really perpetuate that silly early 80s-90s anime villain duo with these two

tap into ur inner flamboyancy and cuntiness with this one , dont just force a gayccent

Voice description:
  • animation/character
  • male young adult
  • male adult
  • nonbinary
  • androgynous

  • We work for nobody but ourselves! We’re actually... criminally unemployed!

  • Girl i’m not touching those used napkins, let’s rip that scarf right off the loaf!

  • I run in and get it, you stand here and be pretty per usual~ But I'll also be the pretty one

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Voice Actor
Voice Actor
Murd the Mayor
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Deferred: Agreed Amount
Role assigned to: Pokkin

The walking and talking cholesterol commercial

Murd, the CEO of MurDonald's, is a newly appointed mayor of Foodtopia after the disappearance of the former mayor. However, instead of focusing on saving the city from total destruction, his only goals is to give the foodfolk bread and circuses. He's the goofiest silliest personalifcation of out of touch greedy corperate conglomeration.

Voice Inspiration and Guidelines:

Think: Ronald Mcdonald with the personality of Mr Krabs

 cheery, commercial, artificially enthusiastic! Doesn't necessarily have to be a stereotypical clown voice like Krusty the Clown, just something cartoony, whimsical, and iconic!

Sometimes it almost feels like he's reading to a child.

Only his advertiser lines should have his advertiser voice, he can still speak fairly normally, just not interested in not selling anything.

  • Pandora may be hungry for blood, but who’s hungry for the all-new AI Generated MurBurger!

  • Bread’s death was TRAGIC!… but sandwich sales are up 10%! Talk about silver lining!

  • Who's getting toasted!? Can i get a taste test on that?

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Voice Actor
Voice Actor
Takoyaki
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Deferred: Agreed Amount
Role assigned to: David Pastore-Theriaque

The cynical, sharp-tongued news seafood

Takoyaki is the News Achorman for Footopia Now! He's clinically over everything that happens, almost like he was born with having no hope in food-manity. With a deadpan sarcasm, and a crash-out around the corner. The only emotions he does occassionally show are fits of explosive rage, but only speaking what everyone's thinking.

Voice Inspiration and Guidelines:

Think: a late-night host who hasn’t slept since the war started. Dry. World-weary. Sardonic.

You can go deeper-pitched or smooth and smug — either way, the tone is crispy

Takoyaki's roots being a Japanese dish, whether or not he has an accent is up to you, but please have it come from an authentic place only

Voice description:
  • all english accents
  • japanese
  • male adult

  • Good evening, Foodtopia. Nothing’s changed in months and it’s only getting more rotten

  • Any report might be my last, and I can't wait for the day to come!

  • Listen here cholesterol commercial, foodfolk are DYING, Do you have any actual plans to keep the city safe?

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Voice Actor
Voice Actor
Miss Swiss
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Deferred: Agreed Amount
Role assigned to: Vyn Vox

The iron fist in a frosting glove.

Miss Swiss is a tactician with a sweet tooth for vengeance. They're snarky, commanding, and always locked, loaded, and three steps ahead. They're the pastry who organizes resistance movements with color-coded folders and knows exactly how many bullets are in the gun.

Voice Inspiration and Guidelines:
Think: A passionate, ultra-capable ex-military lieutenant, hard on the outside, soft on the inside!

Despite being named Miss Swiss, They don't necessarily have a specific gender, and their only gender expression is... leader. As long as it's more butch-leaning ~ Though originally I imagined them with a masculine woman's voice, I'm not opposed to a male voice, and everything in between ofc

Voice description:
  • female adult
  • animation/character
  • male adult
  • Lesbian
  • androgynous

  • This only means one thing- my favorite thing… WAR!

  • Cracks build character, my meringuey mistress.

  • Don’t you know, Pandora?… even the smallest crumbs pack the biggest heat.

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Voice Actor
Voice Actor
Pavlova
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Deferred: Agreed Amount
Role assigned to: adoxographist

The airiest russian soldier with the highest drama-to-density ratio.

Pavlova is a delicate delight! graceful, dramatic, and perpetually one gasp away from crumbling apart (literally). She’s an emotional support bombshell: fragile in form, but unexpectedly brave when it counts. Think ballerina in a war zone, with a ton of anxiety.

Voice Inspiration and Guidelines:

Her behavior is literally ballerina-esque, elegant, light, fragile, just like the egg whites she's made from, her voice should reflect that

The crispiest, wispiest, floaty-est voice with a Russian accent you can perform! 

She sounds like it's almost painful to talk, like just saying words gets her close to cracking!

Easily startled, emotionally dramatic, never mean.

Language:
  • english
  • russian
Voice description:
  • animation/character
  • female adult
  • female young adult
  • russian
  • standard russian

  • Goodness! Just the sound of that word blows me away! I’m 80% air, after all…

  • What if I break apart!? What if I SHATTER!?

  • If I crumble, sweep me up gently~

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Voice Actor
Voice Actor
Fairy B.
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Deferred: Agreed Amount
Role assigned to: Mathew Charles

The sugar-sprinkled wildcard

Literally just be the most australian man ever that owns a sniper rifle.

Voice Guidelines:

MUST BE AUTHENTICALLY AUSTRALIAN NO FAKING ACCENTS PER REQUESTED BY REAL AUSSIES

Language:
  • english
  • Australian
Voice description:
  • australian
  • male adult
  • male young adult
  • animation/character
  • general australian
  • english australian
  • south australia

  • oi whos this cunt!

  • Oh some cheeky shits going down

  • Right then, one shot to the head and its all glitter and gore!

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Voice Actor
Voice Actor
Garlic Gal
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Deferred: Agreed Amount
Role assigned to: Skylar Holt

Soft-hearted. Sharp-edged. The romantic war criminal of the group.

Garlic Bread is the emotional anchor of the gang. Gentle, noble, and unusually poetic until things go south, and she unleashes a level of lethal force with her dual Breadstick Blades that suggests a very dark past.

Voice Inspiration and Guidelines:

Warm, rich, empathetic voice that's ready to lock in when needed

Open to hearing any sort of interpretations!

Voice description:
  • female teen
  • animation/character
  • female young adult

  • If anyone touches Bread, I’ll garlic-knot their intestines.

  • I think Fairy was making love eyes at me~... though one was facing the other direction

  • I hate war, I really do! but that's why i'm so GOOD at it

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Voice Actor
Voice Actor
Breadstone
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Deferred: Agreed Amount
Role assigned to: Arron Taylor

The crumbling spirit of old dough.

Breadstone is a literal gravestone that talks , He's spooky and strong in a Saturday-morning-cartoon way but with a voice that feels at home: creepy but kid-accessible, and still warm and welcoming. like a haunted toaster who will teach you history, but poke fun at you if your not following along.

Voice Inspiration and Guidelines:

Think: A Hearty soul of a deceased jazz enjoyer turnt halloween spirit

Voice description:
  • male adult
  • animation/character

  • You're in the Gluten Graveyard baby! Where yeast is deceased~

  • I once washed my soul in hot water... never came out the laundry.

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Voice Actor
Breadbot
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Deferred: Agreed Amount
Role assigned to: Matthew T. Patton

Overengineered. Overanalyzing. Over it.

Breadbot is a clunky surveillance drone designed to look like Bread, but he’s all processor, no personality. He's a kiss-up to Pandora, and narrates everything with excessive technical jargon and zero emotional inflection

Voice Guidelines and Inspiration:

Think: Nerd that you'd never invite to a party turned into one of the PC's he built himself

Stereotypical meme nerd voice except a robot lol

Language:
  • english
Voice description:
  • Robot
  • nerdy
  • animation/character

  • Threat level: embarassing.

  • We’re currently deploying reinforcements. According to plan.

  • Pandora, what do we do?

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Voice Actor
Voice Actor
Ms. Crackle
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Deferred: Agreed Amount
Role assigned to: Adam Argam

Ms. Crackle is a side character with an ever so eery presence and a creepier apple assistant! 

Her voice, should contrast the more serious tone of Unhappy Appy, yet compliment the darkness and classroom horror the two radiate. 

It can be completely unserious falsetto that's just slightly offputting, like a bird muppet with an annoying voice that will yell at you for being too neurodivergent in class. she can make random exclamations and sounds and tweak the hell out


here's a demo of me playing around with how the voices would sound/behave, but i dont think i want her sounding exactly like this at all lmao:

https://jumpshare.com/s/Vb7qKGnY8leJ1GvyQfpZ

Language:
  • english
Voice description:
  • female adult
  • animation/character

  • Bread! How many times have I told you to KEEP STILL

  • Today, we're learning... Quantum Addition!

  • BYHU- EEUGH- Are you to be reminded of Classroom Etiquette ?

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Voice Actor
Voice Actor
Unhappy Appy
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Deferred: Agreed Amount
Role assigned to: cl0cks0ng

The Teacher Assistant to Ms. Crackle, based off the online urban legend Happy Appy, look into the creepypasta and it'll tell you all you need to know about this abomination of a character.


Inspiration and Guidelines:

Think: You're a kid waking up in the middle of the night to a haunted educational show, and this is the TV Host, now apply that character to a Teacher position.

Lean for something more towards eery, unsettling, but not using a super deep pitch tone to do so. There should be a complimentary contrast with Ms. Crackle's over the top high pitched scratchy muppet voice.


I played around with the voice dynamic of him and Ms. Crackle, but I don't imagine this is how he sounds like, and rather hear the bests interpretations:

https://jumpshare.com/s/Vb7qKGnY8leJ1GvyQfpZ

Voice description:
  • animation/character

  • Hey Bread, are you feeling Happy enough to learn today?

  • Ms. Crackle, I think Bread's not following along closely enough!

  • Class, we need you to solve square root of fruit.

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