History Main / ArtShift

* In ''DoctorSlump'', Senbei Norimaki often changes from a fat, short, ugly man into a tall, handsome, muscular one... and then back in a matter of seconds. "He's like {{Ultraman}}... kinda."

** A similar art shift will also take place in the upcoming ''[[WesternAnimation/TheSmurfsTheLegendOfSmurfyHollow The Smurfs: The Legend of Smurfy Hollow]]''.

* In ''ComicBook/{{Noob}}'', the art changes towards a more manga-like style (specifically [[YaoiGenre yaoi manga]] when [[YaoiFangirl Gaea]] puts her ShippingGoggles on. There was also a DreamSequence during which the style is closer to American comics.

* ''Fanwork/ZanyToTheMax'': Whenever the Warners drink {{Acme|Products}} [[PowerUpFood Super Carrot Juice]], they spin around [[ThemeMusicPowerUp as part of the theme song plays]] (namely, the part with the lyrics "So just sit back and relax; you'll laugh till you collapse! We're WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}!"). When they stop spinning, they have an "{{Anime|sque}}niesque" appearance that parodies ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls''.

* ''Franchise/TheSmurfs: A Christmas Carol'' shifts from 3D CGI to 2D animation during the sequence when Grouchy is visited by the Smurfs of Christmas Past, Present, and Future.

* ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'': In the episode "Chinpokomon", several characters become choppily animated and develop ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}''-style anime features. In "Simpsons Did It", Butters has a fantasy sequence in which the show is in Simpsons-style animation. In "Good Times With Weapons", several sequences are drawn in an {{Animesque}} style. The latest example would be "Major Boobage", which uses cel animation that's a deliberate homage to ''WesternAnimation/HeavyMetal'' to indicate drug trips.

* If Fred Hembeck appears in your comic, it is a fact that he will appear as drawn by the man himself in that signature goofy style of his, no matter how much it might clash with the style of the rest of the characters.

* An odd live-action one occurs in the final TV movie of ''SavedByTheBell'', which is filmed on more traditional film cameras and lacks the show's brighter lighting and soundtrack. (Compare this to the show's first TV movie, "Hawaiian Style", which is filmed using the show's cameras.)
* In ''{{Spaced}}'', some flashbacks are done in a blurry, pink-hued style.

* ''Series/{{Community}}'': The second season Christmas episode "[[Recap/CommunityS2E11AbedsUncontrollableChristmas Abed's Uncontrollable Christmas]]" was Stop Motion-animated. In fact, Abed's noticing of the ArtShift that no other character notices is central to episode's plot.

* ''Series/{{Farscape}}''. When Harvey turns out to be NotQuiteDead, Crichton sees him as Film/{{Nosferato}} in a scratchy black & white film.
* ''{{Hustle}}'' does this for certain exposition scenes. A description of a very old con trick is done via a B&W silent movie, and an explanation of fugu fish preperation is done via anime.
* ''{{Eureka}}'' used this in the ChristmasEpisode "Do You See What I See?" A machine in town malfunctioned and turned everyone into various animated styles. They used everything from Peanuts to claymation.

* In one episode of ''That70sShow'', Fez says that he wishes he was in ''ScoobyDooWhereAreYou'', and that episode's scene in the circle is animated in the style of 60's ''Scooby Doo''.

* Zero's art changed so radically from ''VideoGame/MegaManX 5'' to ''Videogame/MegaManZero'' that fans were left wondering if it was really the same Zero.
** ''Zero 3'' [[spoiler:answered it in a rather confusing manner.]]

**** [[spoiler:Although Omega Zero's sprites change to Zero's old sprites temporarily whenever he uses certain animations, so this might just be laziness on the part of the developers.]]

**** Keiji Inafune only handled the character designs for Mega Man 1-6, 9, 10 and X 1-3. Hayato Kaji was responsible for 7 while Shinsuke Komaki worked on 8. Haruki Suetsugu for X4-X6 and Tatsuya Yoshikawa for X7 and X8. Inafune more or less draws the same as he did in the Famicom era.
* In FinalFantasyIVTheAfterYears, although most of the game's sprites have a FFVI-esque appearance, flashbacks will show them with the same dwarfish proportions they had in the original.
* The developers of ''{{killer7}}'' hired two different anime studios to create brief, fully animated cutscenes for some of the game's more bizarre levels, one level featuring what look like flash-based animations while another level is filled with more traditional cel animation, which serve as a welcome break from the game's usual in-engine cutscenes.
* ''CrashMindOverMutant'' enjoys abusing Art Shift for its animated [[FullMotionVideo FMV]]s for no apparent reason other than to amplify its wackiness. Across the 17 such scenes, there are ''twelve'' art styles used in total!

** Port Royal and the characters in it are more detailed than the rest of the game and feature a lot of RealIsBrown since they are based on a [[PiratesOfTheCaribbean live-action movie]]. Sora and his friends [[LampshadeHanging point out]] that this world looks different when they first arrive.

** More subtly, weapons and common Heartless get their textures shifted in [[TheNightmareBeforeChristmas Halloween Town]] and [[{{Tron}} Space Paranoids]] into darker, detailed textures for the former and TronLines for the latter while keeping their models (the heroes do get shifted in those worlds too, but their changes are more drastic than a simple texture swap). To wit: [[http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20090825032958/kingdomhearts/images/0/05/Soldier_KH2.png a regular Soldier]], [[http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20100913212358/kingdomhearts/images/e/e5/Soldier_HT.png a Halloween Town Soldier]] and [[http://images4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20101005175639/kingdomhearts/images/2/27/Soldier_SP.png a Space Paranoids Soldier]].
* ''VideoGame/EliteBeatAgents'' and ''OsuTatakaeOuendan'' do this cleverly; while the agents/ouendan dance in 3D on the bottom screen, the results of their cheering is shown on the top screen in a mix between manga style (there are manga effects and word bubbles) and limited animation. The most clever use is in the ''Jumping Jack Flash'' stage of Elite Beat Agents: [[spoiler:as all of the agents' clients try to break the agents out of their stone status, the bottom screen is black. When they are freed, the agents jump down onto the bottom screen and start dancing]].

* ''VideoGame/SuperMarioRPG'' had a part where you would go behind a curtain and Mario would go from psuedo-3D-rendered-isometric sprite to 8-bit just as he appears in the original ''SuperMarioBros''.

* In ''CastlevaniaSymphonyOfTheNight'', Maria asks Alucard if he has seen Richter Belmont. Maria has a thought bubble depicting a SotN style Richter sprite. Alucard responds with a remembering of when he fought alongside Trevor Belmont, who he remembers in the form of the NES Trevor Belmont sprite.

* In ''The Witcher 2: Assassin of Kings'', the art shifts from normal game play to an anime styled motion comic when Geralt sees visions of his past. Additionally, though I'm not sure if it's a true art shift, in the ''The Witcher'' the art would shift from game play to paintings done in the Renaissance style.
* Due to being a [[DolledUpInstallment dolled-up version]] of an unrelated Famicom game, ''Super SpyHunter'' has a completely different art style.

* ''VideoGame/RatchetAndClankFutureACrackInTime'' (and, to not quite the same extent, its predecessors ''Tools for Destruction'' and ''Quest for Booty'') use drawn, 2D images in place of 3D renders for photos and [[FlashbackEffect flashbacks]].

* TheSecretOfMonkeyIsland has close ups for some of the important conversations Guybrush has with Cobb (the 'Ask me about Loom' guy), Elaine, Captain Smirk and Carla. In these close ups, the characters are much more detailed and look like they do on the box for the game. It is thought that all the graphics would have looked like this had technology permitted it at the time.

* ''Fanwork/ZanyToTheMax'': Whenever the Warners drink {{Acme|Products}} [[PowerUpFood Super Carrot Juice]], they spin around as part of the theme song plays (namely, the part with the lyrics "So just sit back and relax; you'll laugh till you collapse! We're WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}!"). When they stop spinning, they have an "{{Anime|sque}}niesque" appearance that parodies ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls''.

** Similarly, different characters will sometimes type in different ways. Fluttershy is noticeably more coherent when startled then Rainbow Dash, but manages to completly misspell everything when she's drunk. Big Mac types [[FunetikAksent usual accent]]. Vinyl never capitalizes. It even extends to how the blogs tag their posts.

* ''SnowByNight'' does this for "Feathers and Frost: A Snow by Night Vignette." For reference, [[http://www.snowbynight.com/pages/ch1/pg2.html here]] is the first strip of the main comic, and [[http://www.snowbynight.com/pages/ch1/v1.html here]] is the first panel of the vignette.

* ''SnowByNight'' does this for "Feathers and Frost: A Snow by Night Vignette." For reference, [[http://www.snowbynight.com/pages/ch1/pg2.html here]] is the first strip of the main comic, and [[http://www.snowbynight.com/pages/ch1/v1.html here]] is the first panel of the vignette.

* Most of ''[[{{Transformers}} Spotlight: Kup]]'' is drawn in a scratchy style to represent Kup's deteriorating mental state. The art shifts to a cleaner style when the point of view shifts to [[spoiler:Springer and his rescue mission]], and both styles are used together when the two plots converge.

* ''TransformersAnimated'' begins with Optimus Prime watching old history footage from the war between Autobots and Decepticons that took place long before the present. What did they use to show this? Footage from ''[[TransformersGeneration1 the original Transformers cartoon]]''.

* ''Series/{{MASH}}'' had an episode where the various characters were interviewed by a film crew about their experiences during the war. The interview segments were very tight shots, using a very grainy, black-and-white newsreel style, which contrasted greatly to the clear, open, full-color photography used for the rest of the episode.

* The first ''Manga/DragonBall Z'' movie, ''[[NonSerialMovie The Dead Zone]]''. There's an abrupt art shift in flashbacks that's used to unbelievably creepy effect.

** These styles include: Shadow puppet cutouts, hand puppets, old frame animation akin to the old Marvel shows, somewhat abstract yet technological-looking, more streamlined and flash-like animation, chinese and [[SuperDeformed SD-like]] animation, ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark''-ish construction paper cutouts and an anime style akin to ''Manga/DragonBall Z''.