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* In ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid4'', Snake dozes off on his way to a location and has a dream. The dream is all in the same graphics and engine as ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid'' for the [=PS1=]. (This is because it's actually a real section from the original [=MGS1=].)

* While most of the ''WebVideo/DreamSMP'' takes place on a Minecraft server (excluding content creators' facecam), there have been a couple of media-related shifts throughout the series.
** There have been a few scenes that take place entirely in live-action, including TheStinger of Quackity's 1st and 4th "Las Nevadas" streams (the former showing his plan to torture Dream until he gets the revive-book, and the latter being a merchandise advertisement) and the first Stinger of Wilbur's lore finale (of [[spoiler:him returning to Utah]]).
** The second Stinger of Wilbur's lore finale is [[https://twitter.com/scivious_/status/1566175566432292864 an animation by Twitter user scivious_]], depicting [[spoiler:friend the sheep being [[TogetherInDeath dropped off to Ghostbur]] via the AfterlifeExpress.]]
** ''The Wilbur Van'' is presented on Website/ArchiveOfOurOwn as a short story, though this is {{enforced|Trope}} due to the content creators involved having issues in (presumably) scheduling for lore streams.

* ''WebVideo/PiratesSMP'': While most of the SMP is livestreamed in Minecraft, in Owen's 1st episode, a brief flashback of his and Tubbo's first and rather violent encounter a few weeks before Day 1 is presented in live-action. Similarly, Kuervo's introductory sequence and Aimsey and Guqqie's death discretion shots on Day 1 are all animated.

* 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 was closer to American comics.

This is a scene within a single work in animation or print where the visual art suddenly and intentionally shifts into a different style, usually for homage or parody purposes. Frequently occurs during [[ImagineSpot Imagine Spots]] and[[FlashbackEffects flashbacks]], particularly RashomonStyle sequences (see RetrauxFlashback), and is often paired with a brief OutOfGenreExperience. Particularly abrupt shifts can be rather scary.

This is a scene within a single work in animation or print where the visual art suddenly and intentionally shifts into a different style, usually for homage or parody purposes. Frequently occurs [[FlashbackEffects during flashbacks]], particularly RashomonStyle sequences (see RetrauxFlashback), and is often paired with a brief OutOfGenreExperience. Particularly abrupt shifts can be rather scary.

* An episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}}'' had an art shift to several different styles of animation including parodies of ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'', ''WesternAnimation/BeavisAndButtHead'', and ''WesternAnimation/DextersLaboratory''.
** In another episode Arthur and D.W. give a recount of a recent event with Arthur using crayon drawings. The art style shifts as such.
** Then comes the movie "Arthur's Missing Pal" which is done entirely in 3D CGI.

* ''Franchise/KungFuPanda'' seems to love this trope. While it's primarily filmed in CGI, the [[WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda1 first film]] 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.

** The theme song begins with a live-action painting of a pirate.

* In ''ComicBook/{{Seconds}}'', panels have been seen jumping around from cute SuperDeformed appearances to rather realistic illustrations.

* ''WebAnimation/RedVsBlue'': In the original series, a few episodes were filmed with the game ''VideoGame/{{Marathon}}'' when Church gets sent back in time. Everyone else got sent ''forward'' in time, and the series switched to ''VideoGame/Halo2'' graphics instead of ''VideoGame/HaloCombatEvolved'' graphics. After Monty Oum (the creator of ''WebAnimation/{{Haloid}}'' and ''WebAnimation/DeadFantasy'') joined the Rooster Teeth staff, a few scenes in ''Revelation'' use CGI alongside the ''Franchise/{{Halo}}'' game-generated content. In Season 9, instead of trying to integrate them together, they have the flashbacks involving the freelancers in CGI and things involving the Blood Gulch teams in machinima (For added bonus, Season 9's machinima was done using ''VideoGame/HaloReach'' assets while the CGI used ''Halo 3'').

* [[http://www.sluggy.com/daily.php?date=070703 This]] ''Webcomic/SluggyFreelance'' uses art shift to make the DreamSequence that much [[MindScrew Mind Screwier]].

* ''Film/SonicTheHedgehog2'': When Tails is explaining the origins of the [[MacGuffin Master Emerald]], the arts shifts to a myth-like animatic.

* In "Adventures of ''Franchise/{{Superman}}'' #441 at one point Mxyzptlk traps Superman in a billboard and sends expies of several popular cartoon characters after him including [[WesternAnimation/TheFlintstones Fred Flintstone]], ''WesternAnimation/BeanyAndCecil'', ''WesternAnimation/MightyMouse'', and ''Franchise/TheSmurfs''. The scene is drawn in a more cartoony style and Superman himself looks like George from ''WesternAnimation/GeorgeOfTheJungle''.
* The ''Franchise/{{Superman}}'' AlternateContinuity miniseries ''ComicBook/SupermanSecretIdentity'' culminates with "real-life" Superman [[spoiler:and his daughters]] flying across the sky, then suddenly shifting into various Golden Age, Silver Age, and even [[Franchise/DCAnimatedUniverse Timmverse]] art styles that progress through the panels, in a loving homage to the character and the many artists who have drawn him through the ages.

* Art shifts are used to incredible effect in the 2016 run of ''ComicBook/MoonKnight'', where each of the hero's fractured personalities is drawn by a separate, talented, and highly distinctive artist.
* One issue of ''ComicBook/RunawaysRainbowRowell'' has an "Interlude With Dinosaurs", which follows Old Lace around as she patrols the Hostel. The interlude is drawn by Takeshi Miyazawa, one of the artists from the old ''ComicBook/{{Runaways}}'' series.
* The comic ''ComicBook/SpiderManLovesMaryJane'' uses the art shift a couple of times, both times it is used to indicate a character is flashing back.
* The first appearance of [[GeniusLoci Ego the Living Planet]] in ComicBook/TheMightyThor has a splash page where Ego is revealed in an art style far more detailed and photorealistic than anything else in the comic, [[CosmicHorrorReveal instantly establishing Ego]] [[EldritchAbomination as something utterly beyond Thor's previous foes.]]

* ''Animation/SpongeBobInTehran'' largely uses CGI, but there are 2 scenes after the intro that utilize 2D animation (namely one showing SpongeBob, Squidward, and Patrick inside an airplane against a moving sky backdrop, and another in which Plankton walks out the Chum Bucket and announces his goal of obtaining the secret formula. The latter reuses animation from a WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants episode.)

* ''LetsPlay/PiratesSMP'': While most of the SMP is livestreamed in Minecraft, in Owen's 1st episode, a brief flashback of his and Tubbo's first and rather violent encounter a few weeks before Day 1 is presented in live-action. Similarly, Kuervo's introductory sequence and Aimsey and Guqqie's death discretion shots on Day 1 are all animated.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/VeryShortTreks'' short "Holograms All The Way Down", keeping with the series' celebration of all things ''WesternAnimation/StarTrekTheAnimatedSeries'', the short starts off in the style of ''TAS'' even as we visit the eras of ''Series/StarTrekEnterprise'', ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' and ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'' via holodeck programs... until Tendi calls out "Computer, freeze program" and it shifts to the ''Series/StarTrekLowerDecks'' animation style before Zero calls out the same thing and we're shown a more stick figure-esque animated style for ''WesternAnimation/StarTrekProdigy'' before it shifts back to ''TAS''.

* In the ''Webcomic/LegendOfTheValkyrie'' webcomic on Website/ShiftyLook, the characters and comic as a whole undergoes a massive art shift starting with [[https://web.archive.org/web/20141015230739/http://www.shiftylook.com/comics/valkyrie/time-for-a-change Time for a Change]]. And yes, the characters lampshade how random the whole experience is.

* While most of the ''WebVideo/DreamSMP'' takes place on a Minecraft server (excluding content creators' facecam), there have been a couple of media-related shifts throughout the series.
** There have been a few scenes that take place entirely in live-action, including TheStinger of Quackity's 1st and 4th "Las Nevadas" streams (the former showing his plan to torture Dream until he gets the revive-book, and the latter being a merchandise advertisement) and the first Stinger of Wilbur's lore finale (of [[spoiler:him returning to Utah]]).
** The second Stinger of Wilbur's lore finale is [[https://twitter.com/scivious_/status/1566175566432292864 an animation by Twitter user scivious_]], depicting [[spoiler:friend the sheep being [[TogetherInDeath dropped off to Ghostbur]] via the AfterlifeExpress.]]
** ''The Wilbur Van'' is presented on Website/ArchiveOfOurOwn as a short story, though this is {{enforced|Trope}} due to the content creators involved having issues in (presumably) scheduling for lore streams.

* ''LetsPlay/PiratesSMP'': While most of the SMP is livestreamed in Minecraft, in Owen's 1st episode, a brief flashback of his and Tubbo's first and rather violent encounter a few weeks before Day 1 is presented in live-action.

* ''VisualNovel/KokoroNoDokiDokiSenpai'': Moku goes from a cartoony art style to a semi-realistic anime style when she [[spoiler:transforms into Neko Neko Princess]].

* ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1987'': During the "Gods of Gotham" arc explanatory panels are drawn in the style of red figure pottery.

* ''WesternAnimation/LittlePeople'' went from claymation to cel-shaded CGI when the series was changed from western animation to web animation. It was then changed to traditional CGI when the new show premiered on Creator/{{Sprout}}.
* An early ''[[WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes Merrie Melodies]]'' cartoon from 1936, "WesternAnimation/PageMissGlory", involves a hotel in a farm town awaiting the arrival of a celebrity, the titular Miss Glory. As a bellhop falls asleep waiting for Miss Glory, he dreams of working in a glitzy hotel in the city. The cartoon is mostly rendered in Warner Brothers' 30s house style, but the dream sequence shifts to a more art-deco appearance.

** "Treehouse of Horror XXXI" had the story "Toy Gory" which was rendered entirely in mid 90s-style CGI in the same style as ''Franchise/ToyStory'' along with an ending song for the segments that was done in crayon. The story "Into the Homerverse" had a Homer that was rendered as a Japanese anime style and another that was an 8-Bit video game style.

** In "Stewie's First Word" Lois breify finds herself binge watching ''WesternAnimation/{{Caillou}}'' after blaming the show on teaching a bad word Stewie said. Clips of the show appear in its animation style with cel-shaded characters on a watercolor background that fades out at the edges. Later Peter is shown meeting in the park with Caillou's father in the same animation style.

* In the ''ComicStrip/{{Garfield}}'' TV special "Garfield His 9 Lives", most segments are animated in the traditional Garfield style, but two of the shorts have a completely different style, the first being "Diana's Piano" which has more realistic character designs and has a water colored painting style, and the second being "Lab Animal" which has a very ''Creator/DonBluth''-esque style and is much darker and scarier than the other segments.