History Main / ConspicuousCG

** Most of ''WesternAnimation/AbraCatastrophe'' was done this way.

** "Wishology" features a lot of CGI, particularly the Eliminators. It's a little jarring to some, as the Eliminators almost look like they're from a completely different show.

* While ''WesternAnimation/TheFearlessFour'' is largely traditional cel animation, the CGI props and scenes are ''way'' too highly detailed and smoothly animated to fit in.

** Rare CGI film example: While ''Disney/{{Dinosaur}}'' primarily uses CGI only for the characters with live action for the backgrounds, if you look at some of the scenes in the film, you can easily tell that some of the background objects are CG animated like all of the characters.

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* MirrorMask: Done deliberately to evoke the otherworldly feel of the fantasy realm.
* Film/ReadyPlayerOne2018: The OASIS features a deliberate version of this, as it is a video game world in-universe.

* ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'' has very briefly used Adobe Flash in only two episodes, which were merely for tweening to make things move faster and better, first in Belly Of The Beast, when the lava comes into the monster's belly and everything is shaking. The lava and the bears trembling and screaming were animated in Flash too. The other episode to use Flash for one scene was Power Animal, which was used for Jake's dancing.

** South Park, in its first two seasons, also had a tendency to use "Conspicuous Live Action Footage": this is because the computers Trey Parker and Matt Stone used didn't yet have the horsepower to render certain scenes in real time, so they would sometimes superimpose animated characters and props over live action video clips. A good example of this is in "Mecha Streisand." There's a scene in the episode where Chef is driving through the mountains with Leonard Maltin. The characters and their car are superimposed over a live action video of the Rocky Mountains.

*** Yuya and his Odd-Eyes Pendulum Dragon are done in CG when they go in for a finishing move. The first few times are quite jarring because of how OffModel Yuya is, but later episodes fix this somewhat. Notably, Yuya and Odd-Eyes are the only ones to be CG; Shun is not depicted in CG when he rides his Raidraptor monster.
* ''Anime/DuelMasters'' features CGI effects for the monsters. This [[AffectionateParody being Duel Masters]], it's {{lampshade|Hanging}}d [[NoFourthWall by the characters]] quite often.

* ReadyPlayerOne: The OASIS features a deliberate version of this, as it is a video game world in-universe.

* In ''VideoGame/TheAdventuresOfLomax'', although the game is almost entirely in 2D, there are a few elements that are, for some reason, made in 3D, and due to their low level of detail it's rather noticeable. The most {{egregious}} examples are obstacles that attempt to use 3D perspective, usually only creating confusion about whether they're currently in a position where they can hit you or not.

** Averted with ''ScoobyDooOnZombieIsland'' (1998) and ''ScoobyDooAndTheWitchsGhost'' (1999), the only DTV movies in the series to be entirely animated with traditional hand-painted cels.

* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'' suffers the same effect, right down to the kinda Art Deco architecture. Particularly conspicuous in the opening titles for ''[[TheMovie Mask of the Phantasm]]'', when the camera actually ''noclips through buildings''.

* Used for some of the vehicles in ''WesternAnimation/TheAvengersEarthsMightiestHeroes''. It's especially noticeable for the Avengers Quinjet.

* In the otherwise excellent episode "The Doomsday Sanction" of ''[[WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague Justice League Unlimited]]'', there is a much reviled SpecialEffectsFailure of the Batplane racing to intercept a Nuke over the ocean -- all in low-grade CG, causing some {{Narm}} in what is otherwise a tense scene.
** There's also all the CG Javelin planes they used, which all looked bad.
** "Dark Heart" contains some ''truly'' terrible CGI helicopters.
** In "Fearful Symmetry", a CG surgical robot attacks Supergirl. The claw is supposed to grab her arm, but it's about half a second behind her arm movement. You can tell the editors cried a lot over that scene.
** One of the most jarring CGI vehicles is the Spy Smasher's plane in a black and white ColdOpen flashback meant to be reminiscent of a 1940s adventure serial.
%% ** And the CG intro of the first two seasons.

* ''[[WesternAnimation/TheJetsons Jetsons]]: TheMovie'' has it in any shot of the Orbiting-Ore Asteroid. Or any of the buildings, actually. The cars fair a bit better however.

Sometimes, of course, Conspicuous CG is deliberate--a character is in deliberately obvious CG as a style choice, such as the Hydra from Disney's ''Disney/{{Hercules}}'', which allowed for more heads and RuleOfCool meant nobody cared. Sometimes, it's a form of PaintingTheMedium to indicate that the thing is fundamentally different. Sometimes it's blended, like in ''Disney/TreasurePlanet''. But when it's used as a cheap shortcut, it just clashes horribly.

* In the various ''Franchise/{{Digimon}}'' series, the Ultimate and Mega digivolution {{transformation sequence}}s of two of however-so-many heroes will have a CGI TransformationSequence, usually the main hero and TheLancer. All the other characters, without exception, will have traditionally animated digivolutions. It got most ridiculous in ''Anime/DigimonTamers'' [[note]]where there are three main heroes and just two of them get the CG treatment, leaving out just ONE[[/note]] and ''Anime/DigimonDataSquad''[[note]]where all four main heroes get the CG treatment for all their digivolutions... until Burst Mode comes along, and only two of them get as usual[[/note]]. ''Anime/DigimonFusion'' finally brought this usage of the trope to a rest - all fusion and digivolution sequences are traditionally animated - and overall does a better job in avoiding it, with it only noticeably appearing in the first episode.
%% ** In one of the seasons of ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'', this is parodied. Mmm, yes!
** The effect is {{invoked|Trope}} for the [[EldritchAbomination D-Reaper]] in ''Tamers'' (like it wasn't scary enough) and the Spirits in ''Frontier''.

* Common during the dance sequences of [[IdolSinger idol anime]], notably ''VideoGame/{{Aikatsu}}'', ''Franchise/DreamFestival'', ''VideoGame/PrettyRhythmAuroraDream'', and ''Franchise/LoveLive''. [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] in that it allows the animators to record a real person dancing and apply the character models, resulting in more fluid and natural-looking animation, but it can be rather jarring.

* In the otherwise excellent episode "Doomsday" of ''[[WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague Justice League Unlimited]]'', there is a much reviled SpecialEffectsFailure of the Batplane racing to intercept a Nuke over the ocean -- all in low-grade CG, causing some {{Narm}} in what is otherwise a tense scene.

* Disney's earlier forays into mixing CG and traditional animation; ''Disney/BeautyAndTheBeast'' and ''Disney/{{Aladdin}}'', are two of the most obvious examples, with the ballroom in the song "Beauty and the Beast" in the former and the escape from the Cave of Wonders in the latter being particularly obvious (and jarring) examples. ''Disney/TheLittleMermaid'' has a scene where Ariel runs down the stairs that is CG. It's painfully obvious, but it's also on the screen for about a minute.

** The Mystery Machine and most other vehicles from ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooAbracadabraDoo'' onward.

%% ** The "Pierrot le Fou" episode.

* One opening of ''Manga/DetectiveConan'' has a really obvious CG car...being driven by normally animated Takagi and Sato.

** It was better when one figures out that most of the CG animation was mostly produced by WIT Studio's subsidiary studio, Creator/ProductionIG.

* The eponymous objects and other vehicles in ''LightNovel/HeavyObject''. Oddly, this method is also used for closeups of characters' hands from time to time.

** One of the most jarring CGI vehicles is the Spy Smasher's plane in a black and white ColdOpen flashback meant to be reminiscent of a 1940s adventure serial.

* The CGI for ''WesternAnimation/NASCARRacers'' mixes cel-shaded cars and realistic-looking backgrounds for its racing scenes, to rather jarring effect. The scenes that take place in the simulator are given a more appropriate cel-shaded look.

* The StockFootage of Kaze's Demon Gun from ''Anime/FinalFantasyUnlimited''.

** "Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy IV": It has [=SpongeBob=] slowly denting into the metal wall rendered in CG from the outside, before it switches back to the standard 2-D painted background of the hole in the metal wall.

* ''WesternAnimation/QuestForCamelot'' has above-average 2D animation for most of the movie... except for the giant troll, which is rendered in 3D reminiscent of ''WesternAnimation/ReBoot''. Jarring, to say the least.