2D Effects Specialist Library
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2D Effects References
200 clips
Cgi: Creature Animation & Debris FX (#17 - Kimetsu No Yaiba)
Flcl: Character Acting & Creature Animation (#03 (NC) - Flcl Series)
3d Background: VFX & Effects & Impact Frames (#50 (BD) (S3 #13) - Cgi)
3d Background: Background Animation & Character Acting (#00 - Beams)
Fullmetal Alchemist: Creature Animation & Debris FX (NCOP4 (BD) (SB/ED/Assistant AD: Yutaka Nakamura) - Fullmetal Alchemist (2003))
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)
Katsumi Ishizuka: Debris FX & VFX & Effects (#0870 - One Piece)
Chuunibyou Demo Koi Ga Shitai!: Background Animation & VFX & Effects (NCOP - Chuunibyou Demo Koi Ga Shitai! Ren)
Julien Chheng: Background Animation & Creature Animation (Cut #7298 - Kairos)
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)
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)
Black And White: Debris FX & VFX & Effects (#002 (BD) (AD: Takaya Sunagawa) - Black Clover)
Shinya Ohira: Background Animation & Debris FX (Cut #40666 - Wind)
Flcl: Debris FX & VFX & Effects (#05 (AD: Hiroyuki Imaishi) - Flcl Series)
Fate/Apocrypha: Background Animation & Creature Animation (#01 (BD) - Fate Series)
Ice: Debris FX & VFX & Effects (#023 (S2 #10) (BD) (AD: Yoshihiko Umakoshi) - Kouta Sugawa)
Ichiro Itano: Background Animation & Debris FX (#18 - Itano Circus)
Beams: Background Animation & VFX & Effects (#064 (AD: Masaki Sato) - Dragon Ball Series)
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)
Ice: Background Animation & Debris FX (#83 (S4 #17) - Re: Zero Kara Hajimeru Isekai Seikatsu Season 4)
Beams: Debris FX & VFX & Effects (#074 - Dragon Ball Series)
One Piece: Background Animation & VFX & Effects (#0392 - Ryo Onishi)
Kanada Light Flare: Background Animation & VFX & Effects (#37 - Naotoshi Shida)
Kutsuna Lightning: Debris FX & VFX & Effects (Cut #37676 - Shine Time)
Naotoshi Shida: Background Animation & Character Acting (Cut #38054 - One Piece)
Flcl: Debris FX & VFX & Effects (#05 (AD: Hiroyuki Imaishi) - Flcl Series)
Beams: Background Animation & Debris FX (Cut #39140 - Production Materials)
Norimitsu Suzuki: Background Animation & Debris FX (NCED4 (Solo KA) - Soul Eater)
Mitsuo Iso: Character Acting & Debris FX (#03 (R2JDVD) - Voogie'S Angel)
3d Background: Character Acting & Debris FX (#09 (BD) - Arifumi Imai)
Black Clover: VFX & Effects & Fire Effects (#063 (BD) - Gem)
Black Clover: VFX & Effects & Combat (#063 (BD) - Kosuke Kato)
Daisuke Tsumagari: VFX & Effects & Combat (#16 (BD) - Jojo'S Bizarre Adventure Series)
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))
Chisato Ikehira: VFX & Effects & Explosions (#279 (AD: Keisuke Masunaga) - Dragon Ball Series)
Cgi: Background Animation & Debris FX (#25 (S2 #12) - Falling)
3d Background: Background Animation & Creature Animation (#59 (S3 #12) - Beams)
Beams: Background Animation & Creature Animation (#59 (S3 #12) - Jujutsu Kaisen Season 3)
Akihiro Ota: Background Animation & VFX & Effects (#13 (BD) - World Trigger Series)
Akihiro Ota: Background Animation & Character Acting (#13 (BD) - Beams)
Akihiro Ota: Background Animation & VFX & Effects (#13 (BD) - Beams)
3d Background: Debris FX & VFX & Effects (#01 Clockwork Girl (BD) - Cgi)
Anikari: Creature Animation & VFX & Effects (#1159 - One Piece)
One Piece: Background Animation & Character Acting (#1159 - Vincent Chansard)
Hugo Lemonnier: Background Animation & Character Acting (#1159 (SB: Nanami Michibata, SB/AD: Katsumi Ishizuka) - Kutsuna Lightning)
Beams: Background Animation & Debris FX (#06 - Fate Series)
Fate Series: Background Animation & Debris FX (#06 - Fate/Strange Fake)
3d Background: Background Animation & Character Acting (PN - Cgi)
Bluuru: Background Animation & Character Acting (#54 (S3 #07) - Falling)
Beams: Background Animation & Creature Animation (BD - Naotoshi Shida)
Akihiro Ota: VFX & Effects & Combat (BD - Black And White)
Fate Series: Background Animation & Character Acting (NCOP1 (BD) - Fate/Strange Fake)
Hideki Kakita: Creature Animation & VFX & Effects (NCOP14v2 (AD: Yoshihiko Umakoshi) - Kohei Hirota)
Ai Satake: Background Animation & Character Acting (NCED14 - Akihiro Otake)
Beams: Background Animation & Debris FX (#162 (S8 #03) (Action Director: Kohei Hirota) (BD) - Flying)
10+10: VFX & Effects & Cloth & Fabric (#162 (S8 #03) (Action Director: Kohei Hirota) (BD) - Flying)
Mecha: Emotional Acting & Debris FX (#23 (DC) - Morphing)
Jujutsu Kaisen Season 3: Background Animation & Character Acting (#56 (S3 #09) - Jujutsu Kaisen Series)
3d Background: Background Animation & VFX & Effects (#56 (S3 #09) - Cgi)
Beams: VFX & Effects & Explosions (#130 (BD) (AD: Naoki Tate) - Dragon Ball Series)
Dragon Ball Series: Character Acting & VFX & Effects (#130 (BD) - Dragon Ball Super)
Beams: Background Animation & Debris FX (#130 (BD) - Dragon Ball Series)
Beams: Debris FX & VFX & Effects (#131 (BD) - Dragon Ball Series)
Beams: Background Animation & Debris FX (#131 (BD) - Dragon Ball Series)
Hiroyuki Aoyama: Character Acting & VFX & Effects (NCOP1 (AD: Masayuki Nonaka) - Masayuki Nonaka)
Beams: Debris FX & VFX & Effects (#13 - Dragon Ball Series)
Moaang: Background Animation & Creature Animation (#01 - Niwa Ni Wa Niwa Niwatori Ga Ita)
Bono: Character Acting & Creature Animation (#01 - Kutsuna Lightning)
Beams: Background Animation & Creature Animation (#08 (BD) (PN) - Black And White)
Angelkade: Debris FX & VFX & Effects (#167 (S8 #08) - Cgi)
Black And White: VFX & Effects & Combat (#167 (S8 #08) - My Hero Academia)
Eve Music Videos: Background Animation & Character Acting (Cut #295255 - Ian Zhang)
3d Background: Background Animation & Debris FX (#21 (SB: Yutaka Nakamura) - Cgi)
3d Background: Background Animation & Debris FX (#21 (SB: Yutaka Nakamura) - Beams)
Henshin: Background Animation & Character Acting (#1152 - Mehdi Aouichaoui)
Black And White: Background Animation & Creature Animation (#1152 - Hisashi Punch)
Black And White: Background Animation & Character Acting (#1153 - Mecha)
Kenichiro Aoki: Background Animation & Creature Animation (#12 - One-Punch Man 3)
My Hero Academia: Background Animation & Debris FX (BD - My Hero Academia Movie 4: You'Re Next)
Ice: Debris FX & VFX & Effects (BD - My Hero Academia)
Chihching Lai: Character Acting & Debris FX (BD - My Hero Academia)
Kohei Hirota: Background Animation & Character Acting (BD - My Hero Academia)
Kutsuna Lightning: Background Animation & Character Acting (BD - My Hero Academia)
Itsuki Tsuchigami: Creature Animation & Debris FX (BD (SB/AD: Yutaka Nakamura) - Morphing)
3d Background: Background Animation & Creature Animation (BD (PN) - Cgi)
Hironori Tanaka: Background Animation & Creature Animation (BD (SB/AD: Yutaka Nakamura) (PN) - Ittaku Koushou)
Morphing: Character Acting & Creature Animation (BD (SB/AD: Yutaka Nakamura) - My Hero Academia)
Ice: Character Acting & Debris FX (BD (SB/AD: Yutaka Nakamura) - Kohei Hirota)
3d Background: Background Animation & Creature Animation (BD (SB/AD: Yutaka Nakamura) (NC) - Cgi)
3d Background: Creature Animation & Debris FX (BD - Cgi)
Akira: Background Animation & VFX & Effects (Cut #291237 - Rotation)
Akira: Debris FX & VFX & Effects (Cut #291242 - Jiro Kanai)
Anthony Nguyen: Background Animation & Creature Animation (#1144 - One Piece)
Cindy Wang: Background Animation & Character Acting (#1144 (SB: Vincent Chansard) - Hamil)
Fuma Tashiro: Background Animation & Debris FX (#1144 (SB: Katsumi Ishizuka, AD: Yong-Ce Tu) - One Piece)
Flying: Background Animation & Debris FX (#1144 (SB/AD: Katsumi Ishizuka) - One Piece)
Sanda (Tv): Background Animation & Character Acting (#01 - Wakame Shadows)
One Piece: Character Acting & Creature Animation (#0957 (BD) - Vincent Chansard)
Katsumi Ishizuka: Character Acting & VFX & Effects (#0957 (BD) - One Piece)
Jakisuaki: Character Acting & Creature Animation (#0972 (BD) (AD: Yong-ce Tu) - One Piece)
One Piece: Background Animation & Character Acting (#0972 (BD) - Rotation)
Falling: Character Acting & Creature Animation (#0972 (BD) - One Piece)
Itsuki Tsuchigami: Character Acting & Creature Animation (#0990 (BD) - One Piece)
3d Background: Background Animation & Character Acting (#162 (S8 #03) (AD: Anna Yamaguchi) - Beams)
My Hero Academia: Character Acting & VFX & Effects (#162 (S8 #03) - My Hero Academia Series)
Black And White: Background Animation & Debris FX (#0695 (BD) - Flying)
Re: Zero Kara Hajimeru Isekai Seikatsu Season 3: Background Animation & Debris FX (#63 (S3 #13) (BD) - Re: Zero Kara Hajimeru Isekai Seikatsu Series)
Food: Background Animation & Character Acting (#13 - Kai Ikarashi)
Beams: Background Animation & Character Acting (#12 (SB/ED: Nian41) - Eastern)
Kanada Light Flare: Background Animation & VFX & Effects (#1136 - Mehdi Bengoudifa)
Beams: Background Animation & Debris FX (Cut #287545 - Black And White)
0nepeach: Background Animation & Creature Animation (#15 - 3d Background)
Nozomu Abe: Debris FX & VFX & Effects (NCOP (SB/ED: Yasuomi Umetsu) - Presumed)
Dragon Ball Series: VFX & Effects & Combat (Cut #288081 - Dragon Ball Z)
Ice: Debris FX & VFX & Effects (#023 (S2 #10) (BD) (AD: Yoshihiko Umakoshi) - My Hero Academia)
Dragon Ball Series: Character Acting & VFX & Effects (BD - Dragon Ball Z)
Dragon Ball Series: Debris FX & VFX & Effects (BD - Dragon Ball Z)
One Piece: Background Animation & Debris FX (#1137 - Shin Kashiwaguma)
Mind Game: VFX & Effects & Explosions ((NC) - Shinya Ohira)
Ice: Debris FX & VFX & Effects (#02 (BD) - Masayuki Kunihiro)
Eastern: Character Acting & Creature Animation (Cut #281433 - Honkai: Star Rail)
One Piece: Background Animation & Character Acting (#1127 - Rotation)
3d Background: Background Animation & Character Acting (#1127 - Beams)
Akihiro Ota: Background Animation & Character Acting (#1127 - Beams)
3d Background: VFX & Effects & Impact Frames (#04 - Cgi)
My Hero Academia: Background Animation & Character Acting (#068 (S4 #05) (BD) - My Hero Academia Series)
My Hero Academia: VFX & Effects & Cloth & Fabric (#068 (S4 #05) (BD) - My Hero Academia Series)
Kouki Fujimoto: Debris FX & VFX & Effects (#072 (S4 #09) (BD) - My Hero Academia)
Kouki Fujimoto: Debris FX & VFX & Effects (#076 (S4 #13) (BD) - My Hero Academia)
My Hero Academia: Debris FX & VFX & Effects (#076 (S4 #13) (BD) - My Hero Academia Series)
3d Background: Background Animation & Creature Animation (#01 (ED: Hsu Injia) - Cgi)
3d Background: Background Animation & Character Acting (#1128 (AD: Shin Kashiwaguma) - Cgi)
Beams: Character Acting & Debris FX (#1128 (AD: Shin Kashiwaguma) - Cgi)
Beams: Background Animation & Character Acting (#002 - Flying)
Kanada Light Flare: Creature Animation & Debris FX (#06 (Solo KA) - Shin Samurai-Den Yaiba)
Kanada Light Flare: Background Animation & VFX & Effects (#06 (Solo KA) - Shin Samurai-Den Yaiba)
Hironori Tanaka: VFX & Effects & Explosions (#029 (S2 #16) (BD) - My Hero Academia)
Boya Liang: VFX & Effects & Running Locomotion (#20 (BD) - Haikyuu!! Season 2)
Crowd: Character Acting & Debris FX (Cut #28411 - Porco Rosso)
Naotoshi Shida: VFX & Effects & Combat (#0699 - One Piece)
3d Background: Background Animation & Character Acting (BD - Cgi)
3d Background: Background Animation & Character Acting (BD - Black And White)
Beams: Background Animation & VFX & Effects (#0404 - Naotoshi Shida)
3d Background: Character Acting & Debris FX (BD - Cgi)
3d Background: Character Acting & Debris FX (#24 (S03E08) (SB: Joaquim Dos Santos) - Cgi)
Animals: Creature Animation & Debris FX (#01 - Black And White)
Atsushi Yonezawa: Background Animation & Debris FX (#24 (S2 #12) - Henshin)
One Piece: Character Acting & VFX & Effects (#1000 (PN) - Wind)
Hajime Nakagawa: Background Animation & Creature Animation (#25 (S2 #13) (Action AD: Hajime Nakagawa) - Solo Leveling)
Junwen Tan: Debris FX & VFX & Effects (#0963 - One Piece)
Junwen Tan: Background Animation & Character Acting (#0946 - One Piece)
Black And White: Background Animation & Character Acting (#0946 - Falling)
One Piece: Background Animation & Debris FX (#0963 (BD) - Wind)
0nepeach: Background Animation & Creature Animation (#1017 - Falling)
One Piece: Creature Animation & VFX & Effects (#1017 - Wind)
Kutsuna Lightning: Background Animation & Debris FX (#1033 (AD: Yong-ce Tu) - One Piece)
Eemi: Character Acting & Emotional Acting (#1030 - One Piece)
Dennis Cablao: Character Acting & VFX & Effects (#1043 - One Piece)
3d Background: Debris FX & VFX & Effects (OP (NC) - Beams)
Animals: Background Animation & Creature Animation (#01 - Kanada Light Flare)
Q Kawa: Background Animation & Creature Animation (OPv1 - Shin Samurai-Den Yaiba)
Falling: Background Animation & Character Acting (Cut #271566 - Fastening Days)
Towa No Quon: Background Animation & Debris FX (#01 (BD) - Yutaka Nakamura)
Beams: Debris FX & VFX & Effects (#06 (BD) (AD: Yutaka Nakamura) - Hidetsugu Ito)
Beams: Character Acting & Debris FX (BD (Effects AD: Takashi Hashimoto) - One Piece)
Beams: Background Animation & Debris FX (BD - One Piece)
Beams: VFX & Effects & Explosions (BD - Hisashi Mori)
3d Background: Background Animation & Character Acting (Cut #272140 - Animals)
3d Background: Character Acting & Creature Animation (USBD - Cgi)
Shakunetsu No Takkyu Musume: VFX & Effects & Fire Effects (#10 (BD) - Sports)
3d Background: Character Acting & Debris FX (#38 (S3 #12) (Action AD/Effects AD: Satoshi Sakai) - Bleach Series)
3d Background: Debris FX & VFX & Effects (#33 (S3 #07) - Bleach Series)
Falling: Background Animation & Debris FX (#08 (BD) - Mob)
Mob: Background Animation & Character Acting (#12 (BD) - Morphing)
Beams: Character Acting & Emotional Acting (Cut #268148 - Cgi)
Beams: Character Acting & Debris FX (Cut #268149 - Crowd)
Fan Letter: Character Acting & Debris FX ((AD: Masami Mori) - Jack-Amin Ibrahim)
Fan Letter: Background Animation & Character Acting (Cut #268152 - Fasto)
Cgi: Background Animation & Character Acting (#04 - Crowd)
Dandadan: Character Acting & Creature Animation (#04 - Falling)
Dandadan: Creature Animation & VFX & Effects (#04 - Hayato Kurosaki)
Beams: VFX & Effects & Combat (#30 (S3 #04) - Bleach Series)
Beams: Background Animation & Debris FX (#26 (BD) (SB/Action AD: Toru Iwazawa) - Flying)
Saucelot: Debris FX & VFX & Effects (#26 (BD) - Sousou No Frieren)
Kouki Fujimoto: Background Animation & Character Acting (#085 (S4 #22) (BD) - My Hero Academia)
Kouki Fujimoto: Character Acting & Debris FX (#085 (S4 #22) (BD) - My Hero Academia)
Beams: Debris FX & VFX & Effects (#149 (S7 #11) (BD) (NC) - Black And White)
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Flcl: Character Acting & Creature Animation (#03 (NC) - Flcl Series)
3d Background: VFX & Effects & Impact Frames (#50 (BD) (S3 #13) - Cgi)
3d Background: Background Animation & Character Acting (#00 - Beams)
Fullmetal Alchemist: Creature Animation & Debris FX (NCOP4 (BD) (SB/ED/Assistant AD: Yutaka Nakamura) - Fullmetal Alchemist (2003))
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