History Main / ToonTransformation

* The ''Series/TreintaYUnMinutos'' Main/BigDamnMovie was [[Main/WhatCouldHaveBeen originally]] going to have a scene on which Tulio and his friends, all puppets by the way, became cartoon characters after entering a mysterious place called "The Sea of Irresponsability". However, the scene was cut out because of budget issues.

* The Autobots and Decepticons in the ''Franchise/TransformersFilmSeries'' all have CGI robot modes, but alt-modes played by real vehicles. Averted with the Transformers that turn into either Cybertron vehicles or robotic animals (such as the [[Film/TransformersAgeofExtinction Dinobots]] and [[Film/TransfomersRiseoftheBeasts Maximals]]), however, where both their robot ''and'' alt-modes are CG-animated.

* The Creator/MarvelComics character ''ComicBook/TheAwesomeSlapstick''. Junior high school class clown Steve Harmon's molecules stretch across 3741 dimensions, turning Steve into a cartoon clown.

A real, living, breathing, three-dimensional person gets transformed into a [[{{Toon}} cartoon]] character -- [[InkSuitActor usually an animated version of themselves]]. This sometimes occurs as a side result of travelling into an alternate cartoon dimension. If this happens in film media, the work usually ends up mostly a cartoon.

A real, living, breathing, three-dimensional person gets transformed into a cartoon character -- [[InkSuitActor usually an animated version of themselves]]. This sometimes occurs as a side result of travelling into an alternate cartoon dimension. If this happens in film media, the work usually ends up mostly a cartoon.

* ''WesternAnimation/CaptainNTheGameMaster'', in which Kevin, and his dog Duke, played by live-action actors in a physical room, are sucked into Videoland by the Ultimate Warp Zone where they become cartoons.

When somebody might end up in another world, artists and crew members might cut the budget, just by making them into a cartoon or the such. Whether it's through being taunted, going through a magic portal, or whatever else, but on the other side, those live action folks end up as cartoons.

Media that has this trope usually ends up as mostly a cartoon.

!!Examples

** ''Film/{{Disenchanted|2022}}'', the sequel, applies this to Morgan when she travels to Andalasia. She had actually regains her more normal memories and personality rather than the ones brought on by Giselle's "Fairy Tale Life" wish in the process.

* In the movie of ''Film/TheAdventuresOfRockyAndBullwinkle'', Boris, Natasha and Fearless Leader become live actors as they go through a television screen.
** When Rocky and Bullwinkle do the same, they simply turn into CelShaded versions of themselves, a discrepancy that is {{Lampshaded}} later on.

** ''Film/{{Disenchanted}}'', the sequel, applies this to Morgan when she travels to Andalasia. She had actually regains her more normal memories and personality rather than the ones brought on by Giselle's "Fairy Tale Life" wish in the process.

* ''Film/{{Enchanted}}'', where it's also the invert: A cartoon princess becomes a live actor in real life. However, a straight example occurs when [[spoiler: Nancy ends up falling in love with Prince Edward and goes back with him to the cartoon world to marry him]]
** ''Film/Disenchanted'' the sequel applies this to Morgan when she travels to Andalasia. She had actually regains her more normal memories and personality rather than the ones brought on by Giselle's "Fairy Tale Life" wish in the process.

* PlayedForHorror in the ''VideoGame/PizzaTower'' fanfic ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/45818845 i was a middle-aged weretoon]],'' where Peppino, after being [[OurWerebeastsAreDifferent bitten by a pair of wind-up teeth]], undergoes an [[PainfulTransformation unpleasant]], BodyHorror-laden transformation into a toon [[MythologyGag resembling his in-game form]].

* Used in the "[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Toon!Henry]]" [[AlternateUniverse AU]]'' where Henry is transformed into a cartoonish version of himself after [[VideoGame/BendyAndTheInkMachine falling through the floor of ink in "Moving Pictures"]].

-->-- '''Richard''', ''WesternAnimation/ThePagemaster''

* A DeletedScene in ''Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit'' originally has Eddie Valiant gain an animated pig's head over his own head when he enters Toontown.

* ''Series/AikatsuPlanet''

* PlayedForHorror in the ''VideoGame/PizzaTower'' fanfic ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/45818845 i was a middle-aged weretoon]],'' where Peppino, after being [[OurWerebeastsAreDifferent bitten by a pair of wind-up teeth]], undergoes a BodyHorror-laden transformation into a toon [[MythologyGag resembling his in-game form]].

* The ''Series/31Minutos'' Main/BigDamnMovie was[[Main/WhatCouldHaveBeen originally]] going to have a scene on which Tulio and his friends, all puppets by the way, became cartoon characters after entering a mysterious place called "The Sea of Irresponsability". However, the scene was cut out because of budget issues.

* On the movie of ''Film/TheAdventuresOfRockyAndBullwinkle'', Boris, Natasha and Fearless Leader become live actors as they go through a television screen.

* In the strictest sense not really an ''anime'' example per se, but this was what a company called Toon Makers [[WesternAnimation/ToonMakersSailorMoon had planned]] for ''Anime/SailorMoon'' if they had gotten the rights instead of Creator/DiC's eventual CutAndPasteTranslation. They were going to have the civilian scenes filmed in live action and then the girls would turn animated in a very Filmation's ''WesternAnimation/SheRaPrincessOfPower''-esque style when they transformed. Also they were going to go literally sailing... in space... for 25 years the only available clip of this was recorded from a convention screening on a camcorder therefore very low quality and cacophony of attendee laughter - [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=358ewVY2nko See here]] - that was commonly nicknamed "Saban Moon" due to people assuming the company who made it was Saban. However in 2022 [=YouTuber=] Raven "Ray Mona" Simone unearthed the full pilot from The Library of Congress.

* The direct-to-video series ''WesternAnimation/TheWackyAdventuresOfRonaldMcDonald'', where Ronald gets onto a type of slide, and turns into an animated caricature of himself.

* In the strictest sense not really an ''anime'' example per se, but this was what a company called Toon Makers [[WesternAnimation/ToonMakersSailorMoon had planned]] for ''Anime/SailorMoon'' if they had gotten the rights instead of Creator/DiC's eventual CutAndPasteTranslation. They were going to have the civilian scenes filmed in live action and then the girls would turn animated in a very Filmation's ''WesternAnimation/SheRaPrincessOfPower''-esque style when they transformed. Also they were going to go literally sailing... in space... for 25 years the only available clip of this was recorded from a convention screening on a camcorder therefore very low quality and cacophony of attendee laughter _ [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=358ewVY2nko See here]] - that was commonly nicknamed "Saban Moon" due to people assuming the company who made it was Saban. However in 2022 [=YouTuber=] Raven "Ray Mona" Simone unearthed the full pilot from The Library of Congress.

* In the strictest sense not really an ''anime'' example per se, but this was what a company called Toon Makers [[WesternAnimation/ToonMakersSailorMoon had planned]] for ''Anime/SailorMoon'' if they had gotten the rights instead of Creator/DiC's eventual CutAndPasteTranslation. They were going to have the civilian scenes filmed in live action and then the girls would turn animated in a very Filmation's ''WesternAnimation/SheRaPrincessOfPower''-esque style when they transformed. Also they were going to go literally sailing... [[SpaceSailing in space]]. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=358ewVY2nko See here]] the only available clip of (which was recorded from a convention screening on a camcorder hence the low quality and cacophony of attendee laughter) of what is commonly nicknamed "Saban Moon" due to people assuming the company who made it was Saban.