Performance Animation Reference
177 curated performance animation reference clips for animators, game developers and motion designers. Open any clip for frame-by-frame playback to study the timing, spacing and posing of real performance motion — often studied together with character acting, dancing, smears.
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)
