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Cgi: Creature Animation & Debris FX (#17 - Kimetsu No Yaiba)
Flcl: Character Acting & Creature Animation (#03 (NC) - Flcl Series)
Crowd: Character Acting & Debris FX (#03 - Flcl)
Flcl: Character Acting & Debris FX (#03 - Flcl Series)
3d Background: VFX & Effects & Impact Frames (#50 (BD) (S3 #13) - Cgi)
3d Background: Background Animation & Character Acting (#00 - Beams)
3d Background: VFX & Effects & Combat (NCOP2v2 - Cgi)
3d Background: VFX & Effects & Combat (#19 - Cgi)
Junwen Tan: Background Animation & Creature Animation (OP22v2 - Morphing)
Hiroyuki Imaishi: Background Animation & Character Acting (#03 - His And Her Circumstances)
Hiroyuki Imaishi: Character Acting & Debris FX (#26 - His And Her Circumstances)
James Baxter: Character Acting (Cut #68923 - Production Materials)
Fullmetal Alchemist: Combat (NCED1 (BD) (Solo KA) - Fullmetal Alchemist (2003))
Fullmetal Alchemist: VFX & Effects & Combat (NCED4 (BD) (Solo KA) - Fullmetal Alchemist (2003))
Fullmetal Alchemist: Background Animation & Debris FX (NCOP3 (BD) - Fullmetal Alchemist (2003))
Falling: Background Animation & Debris FX (NCOP4 (BD) (SB/ED/Assistant AD: Yutaka Nakamura) - Fullmetal Alchemist)
Fullmetal Alchemist: Creature Animation & Debris FX (NCOP4 (BD) (SB/ED/Assistant AD: Yutaka Nakamura) - Fullmetal Alchemist (2003))
Fullmetal Alchemist: VFX & Effects & Combat (NCOP4 (BD) - Fullmetal Alchemist (2003))
Kill La Kill: Background Animation & Debris FX (Kill la Kill v7 documentary (part2) - Production Materials)
Jojo'S Bizarre Adventure Series: Combat & Smears (#04 (BD) - Jojo'S Bizarre Adventure: Vento Aureo)
Henshin: VFX & Effects & Hair Motion (#0870 - Naotoshi Shida)
One Piece: Background Animation & Debris FX (#0870 - Rotation)
One Piece: Character Acting & VFX & Effects (#0870 - Takumi Yamamoto)
One Piece: Background Animation & Debris FX (#0870 - Wind)
Morphing: Background Animation & Character Acting (#0870 - One Piece)
Katsumi Ishizuka: Debris FX & VFX & Effects (#0870 - One Piece)
Mecha: Character Acting (NCOP - Medarot)
Dancing: Character Acting (Episode 2 - Ghiblies)
Chuunibyou Demo Koi Ga Shitai!: Background Animation & VFX & Effects (NCOP - Chuunibyou Demo Koi Ga Shitai! Ren)
Food: Character Acting & VFX & Effects (#09 (BD) - Fumiaki Kouta)
3d Background: Combat & Running Locomotion (Cut #71602 - Alberto Mielgo)
Julien Chheng: Background Animation & Creature Animation (Cut #7298 - Kairos)
Dimension W: Character Acting & VFX & Effects (#01 (NC) - Mitsuo Iso)
Black And White: Background Animation & VFX & Effects (#11 (BD) - Flying)
Jojo'S Bizarre Adventure Series: VFX & Effects & Liquid & Water (PV - Jojo'S Bizarre Adventure: Vento Aureo)
Akira: Character Acting & Debris FX (BD - Beams)
Hunter X Hunter: VFX & Effects & Smears (NCOP3 (OVA) - Hunter X Hunter 1999)
Mecha: Debris FX & VFX & Effects (#01 (BD) - Rotation)
Keiichiro Watanabe: VFX & Effects & Explosions (#07 (BD) - Missiles)
Katsunori Shibata: Background Animation & Creature Animation (#01 (BANK) - Sarazanmai)
Akira Matsushima: VFX & Effects & Combat (#01 - Rurouni Kenshin Series)
Black Clover: Debris FX & VFX & Effects (#035 (BD) - Tatsuya Yoshihara)
Beams: VFX & Effects & Impact Frames (#191 - Dragon Ball Series)
Beams: VFX & Effects & Explosions (#279 - Dragon Ball Series)
Beams: Character Acting & VFX & Effects (#166 - Dragon Ball Series)
Kimetsu No Yaiba: VFX & Effects & Combat (#03 - Kimetsu No Yaiba Series)
Ice: VFX & Effects & Impact Frames (#08 - Kekkai Sensen)
Dororo: Creature Animation & VFX & Effects (#15 - Dororo (2019))
Black And White: Debris FX & VFX & Effects (#002 (BD) (AD: Takaya Sunagawa) - Black Clover)
Nichijou: Background Animation & VFX & Effects (#02 (BD) - Noriyuki Kitanohara)
Shinya Ohira: Background Animation & Debris FX (Cut #40666 - Wind)
Layout: VFX & Effects (Incompleteness Miracle 2 - My Hero Academia)
Layout: VFX & Effects (Incompleteness Miracle 2 - My Hero Academia)
Layout: Impact Frames (Incompleteness Miracle 2 - My Hero Academia)
Lu Over The Wall: Background Animation & Creature Animation (Cut #40732 - Shinya Ohira)
Lu Over The Wall: Character Acting & VFX & Effects (Cut #40832 - Shinya Ohira)
Layout: VFX & Effects & Hair Motion (Incompleteness Miracle 2 - My Hero Academia)
Flcl: Debris FX & VFX & Effects (#05 (AD: Hiroyuki Imaishi) - Flcl Series)
3d Background: Combat & Running Locomotion (Cut #41111 - Blood Series)
Cgi: VFX & Effects & Combat (#10 - Houseki No Kuni)
Concrete Revolutio Choujin Gensou: Combat (Incompleteness Mini 5 - Layout)
Fate/Apocrypha: Background Animation & Creature Animation (#01 (BD) - Fate Series)
Ice: Debris FX & VFX & Effects (#023 (S2 #10) (BD) (AD: Yoshihiko Umakoshi) - Kouta Sugawa)
Devilman: Background Animation & Creature Animation (#06 - Devilman Crybaby)
Black And White: Character Acting & Emotional Acting (#09 (solo KA) - Crowd)
Concrete Revolutio Choujin Gensou: Smears (Incompleteness Mini 5 - Layout)
Black And White: Debris FX & VFX & Effects (Cut #44031 - Eisaku Kubonouchi)
Hideaki Maniwa: Background Animation & Debris FX (#0023 - One Piece)
Hideaki Maniwa: Background Animation & Character Acting (#0067 - One Piece)
Flying: Background Animation & Debris FX (#0468 - Ice)
Ichiro Itano: Background Animation & Debris FX (#18 - Itano Circus)
Dragon Ball Series: Character Acting & Smears (#053 - Dragon Ball Z)
Ichiro Itano: VFX & Effects (#01 - Itano Circus)
Richard Williams: Character Acting & Cloth & Fabric (Cut #4660 - The Thief And The Cobbler)
Masayuki: Background Animation & Creature Animation (NCOP - Thundercats)
Arifumi Imai: VFX & Effects & Combat (Cut #47135)
Arifumi Imai: VFX & Effects & Combat (Cut #47136)
Beams: Background Animation & VFX & Effects (#064 (AD: Masaki Sato) - Dragon Ball Series)
Dragon Ball Series: Background Animation & VFX & Effects (#067 - Dragon Ball Z)
Bahi Jd: Character Acting & VFX & Effects (Cut #47589 - One-Punch Man)
One Piece: Background Animation & Character Acting (NCOP12 - Ryo Onishi)
Layout: Combat (Incompleteness 1 - Production Materials)
Hiroyuki Imaishi: Background Animation & Character Acting (Tokyo Crisis - Kanada Light Flare)
Katsumi Ishizuka: Debris FX & VFX & Effects (#0834 - One Piece)
Black And White: Background Animation & Character Acting (NCED - Girls' Last Tour)
3d Background: Debris FX & VFX & Effects (#01 - Atsushi Ikariya)
3d Background: VFX & Effects & Explosions (#01 - Akihiko Uda)
Animator Expo: Background Animation & Creature Animation (#25 - Crowd)
3d Background: Creature Animation & Combat (Cut #5189 - Animals)
Animals: Background Animation & Character Acting (#06 (BD) - Animator Expo)
Sports: Character Acting & Combat (#04 (BD) (AD: Yuriko Chiba) - To Heart)
Go! Princess Precure: Background Animation & Debris FX (#39 (BD) - Precure)
Vehicle: Background Animation & Character Acting (#01 (CAD: Atsuko Nakajima, AD: Tokuyuki Matsutake) - You'Re Under Arrest)
Ice: Background Animation & Debris FX (#83 (S4 #17) - Re: Zero Kara Hajimeru Isekai Seikatsu Season 4)
3-Gatsu No Lion: VFX & Effects & Cloth & Fabric (#01 (BD) - Black And White)
3d Background: Character Acting (Cut #316499 - Cgi)
Bs Kim: Creature Animation & VFX & Effects (OP - Chainsaw Man Reze-Hen)
Cgi: Character Acting & Cloth & Fabric (Cut #316518 - Chainsaw Man Reze-Hen)
Chainsaw Man Reze-Hen: Character Acting & Creature Animation (Cut #316531 - Chainsaw Man Series)
3d Background: Character Acting & Creature Animation ((SB/ED: Takuya Niinuma) - Cgi)
Chainsaw Man Reze-Hen: Character Acting & VFX & Effects ((SB/ED: Takuya Niinuma) - Chainsaw Man Series)
Cgi: Character Acting & Cloth & Fabric ((SB/ED: Takuya Niinuma) (AD: Shouichi) - Chainsaw Man Reze-Hen)
3d Background: Character Acting & VFX & Effects ((SB/ED: Takuya Niinuma) (AD: Shouichi, Souta Yamazaki) - Cgi)
Chainsaw Man Reze-Hen: Character Acting & Cloth & Fabric ((SB/ED: Takuya Niinuma) - Chainsaw Man Series)
3d Background: Background Animation & Character Acting ((SB/ED: Takuya Niinuma) - Cgi)
3d Background - Cgi (#01)
Beams: Debris FX & VFX & Effects (#074 - Dragon Ball Series)
Kobayashi-San Chi No Maid Dragon: Debris FX & VFX & Effects (#04 (BD) - Kobayashi-San Chi No Maid Dragon Series)
Medarot: Character Acting & VFX & Effects (#47 - Medarot Series)
Little Witch Academia: Background Animation & Character Acting (#01 (BD) (SD: Yoh Yoshinari, NC AD: Takafumi Hori) - Little Witch Academia Tv)
Koe No Katachi: Character Acting & Cloth & Fabric (Cut #34533 - Minoru Ota)
Crowd: Character Acting & Emotional Acting (Cut #34715 - Koe No Katachi)
One Piece: Background Animation & VFX & Effects (#0392 - Ryo Onishi)
Black And White: VFX & Effects & Combat (#0396 - Hisashi Punch)
Kanada Light Flare: Background Animation & VFX & Effects (#37 - Naotoshi Shida)
Naotoshi Shida: Character Acting & Emotional Acting (Cutscene (solo KA) - One Piece)
3-Gatsu No Lion: VFX & Effects & Hair Motion (NCOP2 - Black And White)
Kutsuna Lightning: Debris FX & VFX & Effects (Cut #37676 - Shine Time)
One Piece: Background Animation & Debris FX (#0405 (NC) - Presumed)
One Piece: Character Acting & Emotional Acting (#0405 - Ryo Onishi)
One Piece: Character Acting & Creature Animation (#0405 - Ryo Onishi)
Naotoshi Shida: Background Animation & Character Acting (Cut #38054 - One Piece)
Kazuhiro Ota: Debris FX & VFX & Effects (Cut #38055 - One Piece)
Katsumi Ishizuka: VFX & Effects & Combat (Cut #38057 - One Piece)
Animals: Creature Animation & VFX & Effects (#06 - Flcl)
Flcl: Debris FX & VFX & Effects (#05 (AD: Hiroyuki Imaishi) - Flcl Series)
Beams: Background Animation & Debris FX (Cut #39140 - Production Materials)
Mecha: Debris FX & VFX & Effects (Cut #39184 - Mitsuo Iso)
Blade Runner Black Out 2022: Combat (Cut #39464 - Hiroyuki Okiura)
Norimitsu Suzuki: Background Animation & Debris FX (NCED4 (Solo KA) - Soul Eater)
Morphing: VFX & Effects & Smoke Effects (NCED4 (Solo KA) - Norimitsu Suzuki)
Mitsuo Iso: Character Acting & Debris FX (#03 (R2JDVD) - Voogie'S Angel)
Cowboy Bebop: Debris FX & VFX & Effects (#22 (AD: Toshihiro Kawamoto) - Yutaka Nakamura)
Cowboy Bebop: Debris FX & VFX & Effects (#01 - Yutaka Nakamura)
Shoujo Kakumei Utena: Emotional Acting & Combat (#20 - Yoh Yoshinari)
Cowboy Bebop: VFX & Effects & Combat (#26 - Takashi Tomioka)
Animals: Character Acting & Creature Animation (BD - Eiga Daisuki Pompo San)
Beck Mongolian Chop Squad: Character Acting & VFX & Effects (#07 (BD) - Takeshi Honda)
Mecha: Background Animation & VFX & Effects (#02 (AD: Shigeki Kuhara) - Shigeki Kuhara)
Instruments: Character Acting & VFX & Effects (#10 - Kamiina Botan Yoeru Sugata Wa Yuri No Hana)
3d Background: VFX & Effects & Combat (#01 (BD) - Cgi)
Mitsuaki Takabe: VFX & Effects & Combat (#04 (BD) - Vinland Saga)
Obari Punch: VFX & Effects & Combat (#04 (BD) - Shunsuke Aoki)
3d Background: Character Acting & Debris FX (#09 (BD) - Arifumi Imai)
Shunsuke Aoki: Debris FX & VFX & Effects (#24 (BD) - Vinland Saga)
Tezuka Characters: Character Acting & VFX & Effects (BD - Yoh Yoshinari)
Flame Of Recca: Character Acting & Debris FX (#22 - Norio Matsumoto)
Doraemon: Background Animation & Character Acting (BD - Doraemon (2005))
Chainsaw Man Series: Character Acting & Creature Animation (Mobile Game OP - Julian Bentley)
Mecha: VFX & Effects & Combat (#26 - The Vision Of Escaflowne)
Black Clover: VFX & Effects & Fire Effects (#063 (BD) - Gem)
Black Clover: VFX & Effects & Combat (#063 (BD) - Kosuke Kato)
3d Background: Background Animation & Creature Animation (#12 - Cgi)
Dancing: Background Animation & Character Acting (#01 - Performance)
Mono: Background Animation & Character Acting (NCED (SB/ED/Solo KA: Yasuhiro Irie) - Yasuhiro Irie)
Jojo'S Bizarre Adventure Series: VFX & Effects & Combat (#13 (BD) - Jojo'S Bizarre Adventure: Vento Aureo)
Daisuke Tsumagari: VFX & Effects & Combat (#16 (BD) - Jojo'S Bizarre Adventure Series)
Hironori Tanaka: Character Acting & VFX & Effects (#19 (BD) - Jojo'S Bizarre Adventure Series)
Animals: Character Acting & Creature Animation (#01 - Sayonara Lara)
Jojo'S Bizarre Adventure Series: Character Acting & VFX & Effects (#28 (BD) - Jojo'S Bizarre Adventure: Vento Aureo)
Jojo'S Bizarre Adventure Series: VFX & Effects & Combat (#31 (BD) - Jojo'S Bizarre Adventure: Vento Aureo)
Jojo'S Bizarre Adventure Series: VFX & Effects & Combat (#38 (BD) - Jojo'S Bizarre Adventure: Vento Aureo)
Animals: Background Animation & Character Acting (BD - Ken Takahashi (2))
Black And White: Background Animation & Character Acting (#08 - Flying)
Dragon Ball: Combat (#096 - Dragon Ball Series)
Henkei: VFX & Effects & Lightning FX (BD - Kazuki Takahashi)
Chisato Ikehira: VFX & Effects & Explosions (#279 (AD: Keisuke Masunaga) - Dragon Ball Series)
Dragon Ball Series: Background Animation & VFX & Effects (#179 (AD: Keisuke Masunaga) - Dragon Ball Z)
Dragon Ball Series: VFX & Effects & Combat (#179 - Dragon Ball Z)
Kazuya Tsurumaki: Debris FX & VFX & Effects (#16 (BD) - Mecha)
Cgi: Background Animation & Debris FX (#25 (S2 #12) - Falling)
Arifumi Imai: Creature Animation & VFX & Effects (#01 (BD) - Shingeki No Kyojin)
Naoya Takahashi: Character Acting (#12 (BD) - Sono Bisque Doll Wa Koi Wo Suru)
3d Background: Character Acting & Debris FX (#21 (BD) (NC) - Cgi)
Neon Genesis Evangelion: Character Acting & Emotional Acting (#21 - Neon Genesis Evangelion Series)
Mecha: VFX & Effects & Liquid & Water (#22 (DC) (Mecha AD: Yoh Yoshinari) - Neon Genesis Evangelion)
Cgi: Background Animation & Creature Animation (#59 (S3 #12) - Jujutsu Kaisen Season 3)
3d Background: Background Animation & VFX & Effects (#59 (S3 #12) - Cgi)
Jujutsu Kaisen Season 3: Background Animation & Creature Animation (#59 (S3 #12) - Jujutsu Kaisen Series)
3d Background: Background Animation & VFX & Effects (#59 (S3 #12) - Beams)
Beams: Background Animation & Debris FX (#59 (S3 #12) - Jujutsu Kaisen Season 3)
3d Background: Background Animation & Debris FX (#59 (S3 #12) - Beams)
Beams: Background Animation & Creature Animation (#59 (S3 #12) - Jujutsu Kaisen Season 3)
3d Background: Background Animation & Creature Animation (#59 (S3 #12) - Beams)
Beams: Background Animation & Creature Animation (#59 (S3 #12) - Jujutsu Kaisen Season 3)
Beams: Background Animation & Creature Animation (#59 (S3 #12) - Jujutsu Kaisen Season 3)
Aimman Ibrahim: Background Animation & Character Acting (#59 (S3 #12) (CAD: Souta Yamazaki) - Jack-Amin Ibrahim)
Jujutsu Kaisen Season 3: Creature Animation & VFX & Effects (#59 (S3 #12) - Jujutsu Kaisen Series)
Akihiro Ota: Background Animation & VFX & Effects (#13 (BD) - World Trigger Series)
Akihiro Ota: Background Animation & Character Acting (#13 (BD) - Beams)
Akihiro Ota: VFX & Effects & Combat (#13 (BD) - World Trigger Series)
Akihiro Ota: Background Animation & VFX & Effects (#13 (BD) - Beams)
Fate Series: Background Animation & Character Acting (#13 - Fate/Strange Fake)
Jujutsu Kaisen Season 3: Background Animation & Creature Animation (#59 (S3 #12) - Jujutsu Kaisen Series)
3d Background: Debris FX & VFX & Effects (#01 Clockwork Girl (BD) - Cgi)
Tongari Boushi No Atelier: Background Animation & Character Acting (#01 - William Lee)
Animals: Background Animation & Character Acting (Cut #303597 - Cgi)
3d Background: Background Animation & Creature Animation (Cut #303602 - Animals)
Jujutsu Kaisen Season 3: Background Animation & Character Acting (#48 (S3 #01) - Jujutsu Kaisen Series)
Gen Manabe: Character Acting & VFX & Effects (OP (SB/ED: China, AD: Sakura Watabe) - Joutarou Naitou)
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Cgi: Creature Animation & Debris FX (#17 - Kimetsu No Yaiba)
Flcl: Character Acting & Creature Animation (#03 (NC) - Flcl Series)
Crowd: Character Acting & Debris FX (#03 - Flcl)
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