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200 clips
Dancing: Character Acting (Episode 2 - Ghiblies)
Bs Kim: Creature Animation & VFX & Effects (OP - Chainsaw Man Reze-Hen)
Instruments: Character Acting & VFX & Effects (#10 - Kamiina Botan Yoeru Sugata Wa Yuri No Hana)
Dancing: Background Animation & Character Acting (#01 - Performance)
Akiko Kudo: Hair Motion (Cut #296025 - Chainsaw Man Reze-Hen)
Dancing: Character Acting & VFX & Effects (NCED2 (Solo SB/ED/KA) - Dandadan)
Dancing: Character Acting & Cloth & Fabric (#1136 - One Piece)
Cona Nitanda: Character Acting & VFX & Effects (MV (BD) - Dancing)
Dancing: Character Acting & Cloth & Fabric (NCED1 (Solo KA) - Instruments)
Dancing: Character Acting & VFX & Effects (#22 (BD) - Performance)
Animals: Character Acting & Creature Animation (OP - Astro Note)
Dancing: Character Acting & Cloth & Fabric (#15 - Instruments)
Blue Giant: Character Acting & VFX & Effects (BD - Performance)
Futoshi Nishiya: Character Acting (#26 (S1 #12) (DVD) - Haruhi Suzumiya Series)
Dancing: Character Acting & Cloth & Fabric (#06 (BD) - Performance)
Ayaka Tsuji: Character Acting & VFX & Effects (#01 - Crowd)
Dancing: Background Animation & Character Acting (NCOP1 - Hiroaki Otsuji)
Animals: Character Acting & Creature Animation (OP - Beck Mongolian Chop Squad)
Dancing: Character Acting & Hair Motion (#18 (BD) - Performance)
Jun Uemura: Character Acting & VFX & Effects (#25 (BD) - Miyuki Kuroki)
Animals: Character Acting & Creature Animation (NCED (Solo KA) (NC) - Dancing)
Bocchi The Rock!: Background Animation & Character Acting (#06 - Cgi)
Beams: Character Acting & VFX & Effects (#086 (S4 #23) (BD) - Dancing)
Akira Hamaguchi: Character Acting & Creature Animation (#04 - Animals)
Crowd: VFX & Effects & Combat (NCED - Dancing)
Crowd - Dancing (NCED)
Dancing: Character Acting & VFX & Effects (#09 (BD) - Masayuki)
Dancing: Character Acting & VFX & Effects (Cut #202153 - Instruments)
Dancing: Character Acting & VFX & Effects (Cut #202155 - Masami Mori)
Dancing: Cloth & Fabric & Running Locomotion (Cut #202156 - Masami Mori)
3d Background: Character Acting (Cut #19902 - Beauty And The Beast)
Dancing: Hair Motion (NCED - Highschool Dxd)
Dancing: Hair Motion & Smears (NCED - Highschool Dxd)
Beck Mongolian Chop Squad: Character Acting (OP (R2JDVD) - Performance)
Dancing: Character Acting (Cut #191790 - Performance)
Absolute Duo: VFX & Effects & Combat (NCOP (SB/ED/Solo KA: Ryouma Ebata) - Dancing)
Akebi-Chan No Sailor-Fuku: Background Animation & Character Acting (#07 (NC) - Instruments)
Instruments: Character Acting & VFX & Effects (MV (BD) (SB/ED/AD: Yasuomi Umetsu) - Performance)
Dancing: Character Acting & VFX & Effects (OP - Kouki Fujimoto)
Dancing: Character Acting & Hair Motion (NCOP (BD) - Kobayashi-San Chi No Maid Dragon S)
Instruments: Smears (NCOP2 (BD) - Jujutsu Kaisen)
Cgi: Background Animation & Character Acting (#0982 - Crowd)
Dancing: Character Acting & Cloth & Fabric (Cut #160177 - Hiroyuki Okiura)
Carole And Tuesday: Character Acting & Hair Motion (NCOP1 - Dancing)
A Letter To Momo: Character Acting & Creature Animation (Cut #116964 - Dancing)
Animals: Creature Animation & Smears (NCED - Dancing)
Animals: Background Animation & Character Acting (NCED5 (solo KA) - Crayon Shinchan)
Dancing: Character Acting & Creature Animation (#0193 - Hideaki Maniwa)
Animals: Background Animation & Character Acting ("Scooby-Doo and the Alien Invaders" (2000) - Dancing)
Dancing: Background Animation & Character Acting (Cut #288568 - Mind Game)
3d Background: Creature Animation & Cloth & Fabric (OP - Cgi)
Dancing: Creature Animation & Smears (#022 - Performance)
Animals: Character Acting & Creature Animation (BD (Solo KA) - Dancing)
Animals: Character Acting & Creature Animation (NCED (BD) (NC) (Solo) - Dancing)
Dancing: Creature Animation & Cloth & Fabric (NCED3 (Solo KA) - Digimon)
Animals: Character Acting & Creature Animation (NCED13 (SB/ED/Solo KA: Tomokatsu Nagasaku) - Boruto: Naruto Next Generations)
Coalowl: Character Acting & Creature Animation (Cut #179596 - Dancing)
Animals: Character Acting & Creature Animation (Cut #64615 - Hibike! Euphonium Series)
3d Background: Creature Animation & VFX & Effects (Cut #222150 - Cgi)
Ajisai-Hen: Creature Animation & VFX & Effects (Cut #313910 - Animals)
Dancing: Creature Animation & Hair Motion (NCEDv2 - Hisone To Masotan)
Dancing: Creature Animation & VFX & Effects (#022 - Performance)
Dancing: Creature Animation (NCOP1 - Osamu Murata)
Adventure Time: Creature Animation (#243 - Horse and Ball - Animals)
Animals: Creature Animation & VFX & Effects (OP - Chainsaw Man Reze-Hen)
Momoiro Clover: Background Animation & VFX & Effects (MV (BD) - Momoiro Clover Vs Kiss)
Ashita No Nadja: Character Acting & VFX & Effects (NCOP - Cgi)
Animals: Character Acting & Creature Animation (NCED - Dancing)
Ching-Hsiang Weng: Background Animation & Character Acting (#24 (S2 #13) (MV ED/SB: Yasuhiro Irie) - Chi Yu)
Aito Kawase: Background Animation & Debris FX (#02 (SB/ED/AD: Rui) - Crowd)
3d Background: Background Animation & VFX & Effects (Cut #298750 - Cgi)
Instruments: Character Acting & Cloth & Fabric (#01 - Performance)
3d Background: Character Acting & Cloth & Fabric (#13 (BD) - Cgi)
Bocchi The Rock!: Character Acting & Cloth & Fabric (NCOP - Instruments)
Cgi: Character Acting & Cloth & Fabric (#01 (BD) - Dancing)
Dancing: Character Acting & Cloth & Fabric (#09 - Kaguya-Sama: Love Is War Season 2)
Ayaka Nakata: Character Acting & VFX & Effects (NCED2 - Cgi)
Carole And Tuesday: Character Acting (NCOP1 (NC) - Dancing)
Dancing: Character Acting & VFX & Effects (Bon Appétit! OP (BD) - Food)
Crowd: Character Acting & VFX & Effects (solo KA - Dancing)
Crowd: Character Acting & Cloth & Fabric (#18 - Miki Koyama)
Instruments: Character Acting & Cloth & Fabric (NCED - K-On Series)
Animator Expo: Character Acting & Hair Motion (#27 (BD) - Bubu And Bubulina)
Dancing: Background Animation & Character Acting (Cut #14615 - Emery Hawkins)
Dancing: Character Acting & Hair Motion (BD - Henshin)
Crayon Shinchan: Background Animation & Character Acting (Movie #05 - Crayon Shinchan: Pursuit Of The Balls Of Darkness)
Dancing: Character Acting & Cloth & Fabric (BD (AD: Takashi Kojima) - Kimi No Iro)
Instruments: Character Acting & Debris FX (Cut #40735 - Lu Over The Wall)
Hibike! Euphonium Series: Character Acting & Cloth & Fabric (Cut #64601 - Hiroyuki Takahashi)
Chuunibyou Demo Koi Ga Shitai!: Character Acting (NCED - Chuunibyou Demo Koi Ga Shitai! Ren)
Dancing: Character Acting & Cloth & Fabric (Cut #81812 - Performance)
Crowd: Character Acting (#12 - Instruments)
3d Background: Background Animation & Character Acting (BD - Bubble)
Crowd: Character Acting & VFX & Effects (Cut #281297 - Dancing)
Beams: Character Acting & VFX & Effects (#10 - Dancing)
3d Background: Character Acting & Cloth & Fabric (Cut #223572 - Cgi)
Dancing: Character Acting & Creature Animation (#0875 - Food)
Crowd: Character Acting & VFX & Effects (#0930 - Dancing)
Gosenzosama Banbanzai: Character Acting & VFX & Effects (#04 - Performance)
Gundam: Character Acting & Smears (#01 - Mobile Suit Gundam Thunderbolt)
Blue Giant: Character Acting & VFX & Effects (BD - Hiromatsu Shuu)
Dancing: Character Acting & VFX & Effects (Cut #244769 - Kimi No Na Wa)
Animals: Character Acting & Creature Animation (#01 (SB/ED/AD: Shingo Yamashita) - Asuka Kuroda)
Dancing: Character Acting & Cloth & Fabric (ED - Koutetsujou No Kabaneri Series)
Beams: Character Acting & VFX & Effects (#01 - Performance)
Dancing: Character Acting & VFX & Effects (BD - Fairy Tail)
Dancing: Character Acting & VFX & Effects (#11 - Danny Cho)
Dancing: Character Acting (#15 - Myoun)
Animals: Character Acting & Creature Animation (NCOP1 (NC) - Carole And Tuesday)
Dancing: Character Acting & Creature Animation (#04 - Ousama Ranking)
Dancing: Character Acting (Cut #193923 - Hololive)
Dancing: Character Acting & Smears (BD - Little Witch Academia)
3d Background: Character Acting & Smears (#3.33 (AD: Akemi Hayashi) - Cgi)
Crowd: Character Acting (NCOP2 - Dancing)
Hidekazu Ebina: Character Acting & Emotional Acting (#05 - Kaguya-Sama: Love Is War Season 2)
Dancing: Character Acting & VFX & Effects (#081 (S4 #18) (BD) - My Hero Academia)
3d Background: Character Acting & Creature Animation (NCOP (Solo KA) (BD) - Animals)
Dancing: Character Acting & Hair Motion (#15 - Myoun)
Cgi: Character Acting & Hair Motion (#1129 - Dancing)
Chokotto Sister: Character Acting & Cloth & Fabric (ED (Solo KA) - Dancing)
Animator Expo: Character Acting & Smears (#03 (BD) - Dancing)
Cgi: Character Acting & VFX & Effects (#02 - Food)
Instruments: Character Acting & VFX & Effects (#04 (BD) - K-On!)
Dancing: Character Acting & VFX & Effects (#01 (AD: Tomoaki Takase) - Occultic;Nine)
Cgi: Character Acting (#22 (BD) - Dancing)
3d Background: Character Acting & VFX & Effects (#01 - Cgi)
Bleach: Character Acting & Cloth & Fabric (OP10 - Bleach Series)
Crowd: Character Acting (Cut #310586 - Dancing)
Ayaka Minoshima: Character Acting & Creature Animation (5th year anniversary PV - Dancing)
Dancing: Character Acting & Cloth & Fabric (MV (BD) - Norifumi Kugai)
Dancing: Character Acting & VFX & Effects (NCED2 (AD: Souta Yamazaki) - Make Heroine Ga Oosugiru!)
Dancing: Character Acting & VFX & Effects (#07 (SB/AD: Shuuto Enomoto) - Dandadan)
Aikatsu! - Aikatsu! Series (Incompletness mini 1)
Chocolat Cadabra: Character Acting & VFX & Effects (Cut #248024 - Dancing)
Aimman Ibrahim: Background Animation & Character Acting (Cut #241988 - Jack-Amin Ibrahim)
Dancing: Character Acting & Creature Animation (#05 - Performance)
Akiko Otsuka: Character Acting & Creature Animation (Cut #236211 - Animals)
3d Background: Character Acting & Creature Animation (Cut #236213 - Animals)
Asuka Kojima: Character Acting & Cloth & Fabric (NCOP (BD) - Dancing)
Animals: Creature Animation & Cloth & Fabric (NCED2 - Dancing)
Aikatsu!: Character Acting & Smears (NCOP2 (NC: Yutaka Nakamura) (BD) - Aikatsu! Series)
3d Background: Background Animation & Character Acting (Tokugawa Kaiten Meikyū - Ōoku CM (BD) - Ayaka Minoshima)
Ayaka Minoshima: Character Acting & Creature Animation (Fate/Requiem Event CM (BD) - Dancing)
Cgi: Cloth & Fabric & Smears (#19 (BD) - Dancing)
Dancing: Background Animation & Character Acting (Cut #222170 - Ken Yamamoto)
Animals: Creature Animation & Debris FX (OP (Game) - Dancing)
3d Background: Hair Motion & Smears (NCOP2 (NC) (SB/ED/AD: Atsushi Nishigori) - Atsushi Nishigori)
Chainsaw Man: Character Acting & VFX & Effects (NCED4 (BD) (Solo KA) - Chainsaw Man Series)
Hirofumi Okita: Character Acting & Hair Motion (#08 (BD) - Performance)
Aya Yamamoto: Character Acting & Creature Animation (NCOP (BD) - Chainsaw Man)
Chainsaw Man: Character Acting & VFX & Effects (NCOP (BD) (AD: Moaang) - Chainsaw Man Series)
Ani: Character Acting & VFX & Effects (#08 - Bocchi The Rock!)
Dancing: Character Acting & Cloth & Fabric (#124 (S6 #11) - My Hero Academia)
Bocchi The Rock!: Character Acting & Cloth & Fabric (#05 - Cgi)
Azoura: Character Acting (NCOP - Dancing)
3d Background: Character Acting & VFX & Effects (NCOP1 - Cgi)
Dancing: Character Acting & VFX & Effects (OVA - Katsuhiko Kitada)
Instruments: Character Acting & Hair Motion (Cut #202162 - Masami Mori)
Crowd: Character Acting & VFX & Effects (NCED2 (solo KA) - Dancing)
Dancing: Character Acting & Hair Motion (BD - Instruments)
Dancing: Character Acting & VFX & Effects (#17 (BD) - Performance)
Dancing: Character Acting & Creature Animation (#20 (BD) - Instruments)
Atsushi Nishigori: Character Acting & VFX & Effects (#01A - Henshin)
Dancing: Character Acting & Running Locomotion (NCOP - Kono Subarashii Sekai Ni Shukufuku Wo! 2)
Animals: Character Acting & Creature Animation (NCOP - Cowboy Bebop)
Dancing: Character Acting & Smears (OP (Game) (Solo KA) - Norimitsu Suzuki)
Atsushi Nishigori: Character Acting & Running Locomotion (NCED1 - Dancing)
3d Background: Creature Animation & VFX & Effects (#16 - Cgi)
3d Background: Character Acting & Cloth & Fabric (kizumonogatari ii nekketsu-hen - Cgi)
Dancing: Background Animation & Character Acting (OP (Game) - Kouichi Arai)
Acca: 13 Ku Kansatsu Ka: VFX & Effects & Cloth & Fabric (NCED (solo KA) - Dancing)
3d Background: Character Acting & Cloth & Fabric (#07 (BD) - Cgi)
Bishounen Tanteidan: Character Acting (NCOP (SB/ED: Yasuomi Umetsu) - Dancing)
Avatar Series: Character Acting (#42 (Book 3 #02) - Avatar: The Last Airbender)
Dancing: Background Animation & Character Acting (NCED1 (Solo KA) - Jujutsu Kaisen)
Dancing: Background Animation & Character Acting (NCOP - Healin' Good Precure)
Dancing: Character Acting & Cloth & Fabric (NCED (solo ka) - Hoshiai No Sora)
Big Hero 6
Song Of The Sea
Fantastic Mr Fox
Frozen
Puss In Boots Acting
Encanto
Cloudy With A Chance Of Meat Balls
Puss In Boots Acting
emperor's new groove
Onward
Nimona
Looney Toons
Cloudy With A Chance Of Meat Balls
How To Train Your Dragon
Persepolis
Moana
Incredibles
Encanto
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Bs Kim: Creature Animation & VFX & Effects (OP - Chainsaw Man Reze-Hen)
Instruments: Character Acting & VFX & Effects (#10 - Kamiina Botan Yoeru Sugata Wa Yuri No Hana)
Dancing: Background Animation & Character Acting (#01 - Performance)
Akiko Kudo: Hair Motion (Cut #296025 - Chainsaw Man Reze-Hen)
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