History Main / AnimatedCreditsOpening

* ''Series/Batman1966'''s opening credits were an animated short of Dynamic Duo (with Batgirl joining in Season 3) beating up thugs and villains in an art-style similar to that of Golden Age comics.

* ''Series/{{Batman1966}}'''s opening credits were an animated short of Dynamic Duo (with Batgirl joining in Season 3) beating up thugs and villains in an art-style similar to that of Golden Age comics.

* ''Franchise/UltraSeries'': Early Ultra shows' opening credits would feature black silhouettes, such as those of the titular Ultras, the attack team and some of the kaiju, superimposed onto colorful backgrounds. While these types of credits would fade out with ''Series/UltramanTaro'', they've been homaged in shorter bursts in the openings of later shows.

* ''Series/{{Batman|1966}}''

* ''Series/UltraSeven''

* Before this, there was the sequence at the beginning of ''WesternAnimation/MonstersInc'', which was added because test screenings showed that the actual first scene set too scary of a tone.

* ''The Durrells'' has an animated montage representing events from the series, [[EvolvingCredits different for each season]].

* ''Series/TheTimeTunnel''

* The first season of the PAX TV era of ''Series/SupermarketSweep'' opens with a computer-animated graphic of three shopping carts racing through a market filling up on everything they come across.

* The 1979-1980 Japanese series, "The Super Girl" has it's intro feature [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRCNCBE80ns a very sexualized anthropomorphic cat girl.]]

* ''[[Film/SuperMarioBros1993 Super Mario Bros: The Movie]]'', which begins with footage of pixellated dinosaurs.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nx2JdJhAL94 The first two]] credits opening for ''Series/WonderWoman'' uses animation in a style straight out of the comics.

* Being themselves inspired by a cartoon, both ''Film/GeorgeOfTheJungle'' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5-3jQwbDi0 The Movie]] and the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0csGHvZfyMM direct-to-video Part 2]] have animated credits, although in wildly different style.

%%* ''Film/GeorgeOfTheJungle''

Very popular in the films and television series of TheSixties, with a nostalgic, Retro revival in TheEighties & the early 90's. Since the mid 90's, filmmakers' desire to get to the action as quickly as possible has resulted in this trope largely being discarded in favor of CreativeClosingCredits.

* ''Series/{{Raggs}}'': The opening titles and credits feature the dogs in CGI. However there are also short animated segments in the same style. As of recent the live action seems to have been ditched in favor of complete CGI for their Website/YouTube shorts and promotional artwork, with the actual costumed dogs only used to promote the live shows.

* ''Series/SesameStreet''

%%* ''Loverboy'' (1989)

%%* ''Madhouse'' (1990)

* The film adaptation of ''Film/{{Underdog}}'' starts off with clips from the cartoon set to the credits and to [[Creator/JasonLee Jason Lee's]] voiceover exposition.

* ''Film/MoonZeroTwo'' Riffed on the first season of ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'' and like Catalina Caper they seemed to like it more than the movie.

* ''What's My Line?'', in the late 1960s.

* ''Series/WandaVision'' did this for its second episode, which was a tribute to the 1960s fantasy sitcoms.

* ''Series/WandaVision'' did this for its second episode, which was a tribute to the 1960s fantasy sitcoms ''Series/{{Bewitched}}'' and ''Series/IDreamOfJeannie''.

* ''Series/{{Bewitched}}'': animated by Creator/HannaBarbera

* ''Jeux Sans Frontières'' (a.k.a. ''It's a Knockout''), a wacky European athletics show.

* ''Lame Ducks'', an eighties Britcom, had an animated opening that portrayed the characters as actual ducks.

* ''Mr. Terrific,'' a comic take on superheroes in the summer of 1966 on CBS.

* ''Series/HaveIGotNewsForYou'' uses animated opening titles that keep a few key points (always opening on a shot of Big Ben and closing on the title displayed as a newspaper headline or broadcast, for example) but are periodically updated to reflect current events. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ruUT6wKPKV8 A few variations can be seen here.]]
* The Japanese live-action serial Natsuzora, which told the tale of Natsu Okuhara, a farm girl who comes to Tokyo in 60s Japan and becomes an animator (based on Reiko Okuyama, one of the first Japanese female animators.), had an animated opening in Ghibli's charming artwork, seen [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGWGW23j1ac here]].
* Played straight in ''Series/SisterSister'' when the first four seasons' opening credits have stop motion effects and animation sequences as the original version of the theme song is played in the background. This, however, was abandoned for the last two seasons, seasons five and six, to make room for a music video style sequence.
* ''Series/SoAwkward'' was done in the style of a scrapbook montage, with an animated phone playing clips from past episodes.

* ''Series/MySesameStreetHomeVideo''

-->[After watching an animated opening credits for Even Stevens or Sister, Sister]

* ''Series/MySesameStreetHomeVideo''

* ''Series/{{Bewitched}}''

* ''Series/IDreamOfJeannie''

%%* ''Film/{{Super}}''

* The second ''Film/ShaolinTemple'' movie starts off as an animated film, before seguing into the live action scenes, to emphasize how the sequel is LighterAndSofter.

* ''Film/CitySlickers'' starts out with the main characters, including Mitch, running through the streets of Spain while being chased by bulls, and when one of them sticks Mitch in the ass, he screams into an EatTheCamera moment, which leads to animated opening titles of a cowboy trying (and often failing) to lasso credit names, a bull, cactus, and a cow. At the end of the credits, the cowboy is [[ArtisticLicenseGunSafety playing around with his gun until he accidentally shoots himself in the foot]]. The cowboy starts to walk away, [[DelayedReaction but then starts screaming]], which leads back to live-action footage of Mitch in a doctor's office.

%%* ''Film/CitySlickers''
%%** Same for its sequel, ''City Slickers II: The Legend of Curly's Gold''.

* ''Series/InterviewWithTheVampire2022'': The Season 1 title sequence is a computer-generated animation which features the black silhouette of two cityscapes against a sunset-red sky: the top upside-down one is New Orleans (temporarily changed to San Francisco for episode 6) while the bottom right-side up one is Dubai. As the cityscapes move away from each other, the tallest buildings vaguely resemble vampire fangs.