History Main / ArtShift

* ''[=WarioWare=]'''s sister series, ''VideoGame/RhythmHeaven'', also has varying art styles throughout its many minigames.

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* In Episode 105 of ''WesternAnimation/{{Kaeloo}}'', Kaeloo [[NoFourthWall interrupts the theme song of the show]] and complains about it. She then proceeds to make her own 2D animated intro for the episode.

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* ''Animation/ElArca'':
** Features this, though whether or not it's intentional is debatable -- the art noticeably shifts depending on how many characters are in a scene. In a scene with only one or two, or even a small handful, the art is of quality comparable to Disney. However, in scenes with many characters present, like when Kairel is trying to get everyone organized right after they get on the Ark, and Xiro completely ruins her efforts, the designs quickly become comparable to a toddler's scribbling.
** An example that was clearly on purpose would be when the Villain describes his future plan for the prey animals, and visualizes what it will be like.

* The flashback of Lagoona and Kala as children in the ''WesternAnimation/MonsterHigh'' film ''Great Scarrier Reef'' is done in Flash.

** As an art history buff, Watteron occasionally used an unusual art style as a metaphor, like a Sunday strip in stark, outlineless black and white for a joke about "seeing things in black and white," or a Cubist style to suggest Calvin's difficulty with seeing others' "perspective."

* ''Series/TheLordOfTheRingsTheRingsOfPower'': In episode ''[[Recap/TheLordOfTheRingsTheRingsOfPowerS1E5Partings Partings]], the flashback of Gil-Galad's story about the origin of mithril is shown to be heavily stylized, similar to the ''Film/ThreeHundred'' movie.

** The episode "WesternAnimation/ItsASpongeBobChristmas Its a [=SpongeBob=] Christmas!]]" breaks the art style for the whole episode since the whole episode, including the Patchy segments are done with stop-motion, similar to the classic Rankin Bass holiday specials.

** The episode "It's a [=SpongeBob=] Christmas" breaks the art style for the whole episode since the whole episode, including the Patchy segments are done with stop-motion, similar to the classic Rankin Bass holiday specials.

** The episode "The Legend of Boo-Kini Bottom" is done in the same stop-motion style as "It's a [=SpongeBob=] Christmas" but it includes an art shift itself as the special moves from stop-motion into a frilly animated style similar to ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball'' or something from 80's Creator/{{Nickelodeon}} that's done by Sally Cruikshank who is well known for her short films such as ''WesternAnimation/QuasiAtTheQuackadero'', Make Me Psychic, and ''WesternAnimation/FaceLikeAFrog'', as well as numerous animated segments on ''Series/SesameStreet''.

* The ''WesternAnimation/HowToTrainYourDragon'' short "Legend of the Boneknapper" shifts from CGI into cartoon when Gobber has a flashback.
* In the first ''WesternAnimation/IceAge'' movie, we see how Manny lost his family as rendered in animated cave paintings.

* ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda'' seems to love this trope. While it's primarily filmed in CGI, it opens with a traditionally animated DreamSequence and CreativeClosingCredits; ''Secrets of the Furious Five'' shifts to traditional animation to show the Five's backstories; and the [[ChristmasSpecial holiday special]] has yet another 2D DreamSequence. Then there's ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda2'', which opens with a sequence resembling Chinese shadow puppets, and has a few traditionally animated flashbacks and one DreamSequence that are animated traditionally. Plus, there is at least one cut-out animation sequence in every episode of the TV series.

* ''Webcomic/CollegeRoomiesFromHell!!!'' has at times shifted to a more realistic style of art for dream sequences and flashbacks, only to fall back on the usual stylized designs when returning to the present storyline.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles'': Invoked. The opening and closing themes are animated in a shiny, '60s and '70s deco art.

* ''LightNovel/{{Bakemonogatari}}'' uses art shifts all over the place. They happen so often that it's almost like the series doesn't even have a "normal" art style.

* The anime adaptation of ''LightNovel/HowToRaiseABoringGirlfriend'' has a crayon style for the backgrounds during the flashbacks of Tomoya's and Eriri's elementary school times.

* ''LightNovel/MagiciansAcademy'' parodies ''Manga/{{Kaiji}}'' at one point, and the art style momentarily changes to emphasize this.

* In the second ''Animation/PleasantGoatAndBigBigWolf'' movie, the animation becomes a ''[[Franchise/SuperMarioBros Mario]]''-style video game when Weslie and Wolffy enter the temple. The ''Mario''-esque sequences now happen frequently in the show.

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

* ''Webcomic/MrBoop'': In Alec's JourneyToTheCentreOfTheMind after [[spoiler: being shot by VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog]].

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* In Creator/MarcellJankovics's adaptation of ''Literature/{{Toldi}}'', the visuals alter between mostly realistic animation with the occasional surreal LiteralMetaphor and a style mimicking medieval manuscripts, as the story is set in that time. The same is true for the movie version, which is [[CompilationMovie just the series' episodes edited together]].
* In the second ''Animation/PleasantGoatAndBigBigWolf'' movie, the animation becomes a ''[[Franchise/SuperMarioBros Mario]]''-style video game when Weslie and Wolffy enter the temple. The ''Mario''-esque sequences now happen frequently in the show.
* ''Animation/BoBoiBoy'': Season 2 episode 10 features a backstory for Adu Du and Probe that is given in 2D still art, unlike the series itself which is animated in CGI.
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* In ''LightNovel/ACertainMagicalIndex'', when the FreakyFridayFlip situation is hitting its peak before Touma figures out what's going on, he sees [[UsefulNotes/BarackObama Kuroko]] giving an address of [[GratuitousEnglish Yes! We! Can!]] and temporarily shifts into a crudely drawn cartoon figure.

* In the CGI ''WesternAnimation/HortonHearsAWho'':