History MediumBlending / WesternAnimation

* The 2003 incarnation of ''WesternAnimation/StrawberryShortcake'', for the ''Sweet Dreams'' Movie, shifted the series from 2D animation to 3D CGI.

* on ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBros'', whenever recurring villain, The Sovereign appeared on his telescreen, he was shown in what appears to be live-action footage of someone wearing a cap for his exaggerated forehead.
* ''WesternAnimation/UncleGrandpa'': The amply named Giant Realistic Flying Tiger. Live-action StockFootage was also used.

* ''WesternAnimation/YourFriendTheRat'' (from the ''WesternAnimation/{{Ratatouille}}'' UsefulNotes/{{DVD}}): CGI are used for the framing scenes of Rémy and Émile. Traditional animation is used for the rest, with a stop-motion scene and a couple of live-action StockFootage shots.

* The humans in ''WesternAnimation/FirehouseTales'' are animated in regular 2D animation, while the firetrucks and other vehicles are animated using [[TwoDVisualsThreeDEffects CGI]].
* The ''WesternAnimation/FelixTheCat'' short "Felix Saves The Day" has characters running up real buildings. It also features real shots of trains and people watching baseball.
* ''WesternAnimation/ChristmasCarolTheMovie'' opens with live-action footage before switching to animation.
* Both ''WesternAnimation/RosePetalPlace'' specials have a live-action flashback telling the origin of the garden, while the rest is animated.
* Creator/CBeebies series ''WesternAnimation/{{Razzledazzle}}'' frequently had the CGI-animated character Razzledazzle appear alongside live-action actors.
* ''WesternAnimation/ThomasAndFriends'':
** The third season episode "Buzz, Buzz" features cel-animated [[BeeAfraid bees]] alongside the live-action models.
** The twelfth season, the final season of the model era, combined live-action models with CGI faces, characters and certain "props".
* ''WesternAnimation/ElChavoAnimado'' uses a mix of 2D Flash animation (used for the characters and objects they interact with) and CGI modeling and animation (used for the backgrounds and their elements, including cars and El Chavo's iconic barrel).
* ''[[Series/TheDoodlebops The Doodlebops Rockin' Road Show]]'' features the characters interacting with live-action children discussing their problem before they are transported to their world.
* ''WesternAnimation/VeggieTales'' videos produced in TheNewTens have the letters the characters recieve [[TechnologyMarchesOn replaced by video chats featuring real children.]]

** A two-part episode that features live-action guinea pigs attacking cities in an obvious ''Film/{{Cloverfield}}'' parody.

** Fittingly for a Christmas episode, "Bobby It's Cold Outside" incorporates clips from ''Film/ItsAWonderfulLife''

** The episode where D.W. manages to trick Arthur into taking her to a science museum had her and The Brain watching the TV educational documentary ''Nova'' (produced by the same Creator/{{PBS}} affiliate, WGBH) that had live-action sequences on the animated TV screen.

* The animated adaptation of ''Series/ElChavoDelOcho'', features characters made in Flash in CGI backgrounds.

** In "Friends of Peter G.", Peter and Brian watch ''Theatre/TheSoundOfMusic'', actual footage of which is used.

* ''WesternAnimation/SunnyDay'': The characters are animated with 2D, but everything around them is rendered in 3D CGI.

* The cartoon version of ''WesternAnimation/{{Paddington}}'' has the title character animated using a stop motion puppet, the other characters were coloured paper dolls, and the backgrounds were black and white static drawings.

* ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'': Live-action is used from time to time as a gag. Basically, anything that takes place in, or comes from, the surface world is live-action, while everything underwater is animated. It's done so frequently that making a complete list of instances would be practically impossible. Here are some highlights:
** Any special episode presented by Patchy the pirate.
** One of the show's news reporters is a photograph of a fish, and another occasionally recurring character is a photograph of a human arm.
** '''The very first shot of the very first episode''' is of some live-action coral, which moves off-screen to reveal the animated town.
** The episode "Frankendoodle" starts with a live-action segment presenting the story of the "Sea Artist" and his pencil sinking to the bottom of the sea is what kickstarts the plot. The pencil remains a photograph throughout the episode.
*** This episode may also count because all of the things drawn with the magic pencil are represented in a crude 2d art style.
*** "Doodle Dimension" has a similar approach, with one scene where Sandy steals nuts from a live-action old man back in Texas, the majority of the episode about [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick interacting with crude 2D doodles in a blank void, and [[BrickJoke the old man's arm coming out of Sandy's portal to claim his nuts at the end]].
** In the episode "Pressure", all the characters become live-action puppets when they come out of the water and step onto land.
** In "Squilliam Returns", when Squidward tries to imagine Squilliam in his underwear his body is a photograph tinted blue.
** In the episode "Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy", Patrick laments the seniority of the former heroes and [=SpongeBob=] replies that senior citizens are full of wisdom and experience, cut to a live-action old man smiling to the camera shouting: "Yes, experience!", while giving a thumbs up.
** In "Karate Choppers", [=SpongeBob=] watches a TV show starring a live-action fish.
*** In the same episode, Sandy's hot sauce is shown in close-ups as having a live action face that warns [=SpongeBob=] how hot it will be.
** In TheMovie (Which was originally intended to be the GrandFinale), [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick are still animated when they venture on land, but only become "real" when they [[spoiler:are dried out under a souvenir maker's heat lamp. Conversely, they and all the other dried-up fish turn back into cartoon characters when the sprinklers go off in the stand.]]
** "Krusty Love" introduces the "Imported pianist" a live-action human piano player completely with diver suit, goggles and snorkel.
*** In the same episode we know the fate of Mr. Puff in a live-action scene of a pufferfish lamp being turned on.
** When Plankton sees Krabs's mom for the first time in "Enemy-In-Law" we are treated to a scene of a live-action crab walking underwater.
** In "Mermaidman and Barnacleboy VI: The Motion Picture", after [=SpongeBob=] learns that his heroes will be played by actors in the new movie his reaction is presented using live action footage of someone's mouth placed over a sponge.
** Throughout "Hooky", the characters are warned that being around fishing hooks could lead to them inside a tuna can or in a gift shop. Each time this is referenced, photographs of gift shops and tuna cans are shown (with the characters animated inside the tuna cans). The episode ends with an animated bus dropping off a live-action tuna can that has Patrick inside.
*** The same episode features live-action footage of fishermen throughout.
** In "Shanghaied", [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick try to escape the Flying Dutchman's ship, they attempt to exit through the "perfume department". This is portrayed with them running in their usual animated form through live-action footage of a mall.
** The title character of "Plankton!" introduces [=SpongeBob=] to "my lab". Cut to live-action footage of a labrador retriever.
** In "Idiot Box", Patrick claims that "the inner machinations" of his mind are "an enigma". A thought bubble appears above his head, and within that thought bubble is live action footage of milk spilling.
*** The same episode features Patrick trying on his "glasses": literal glasses of water. Through those glasses, Patrick's eyes are shown as live-action human eyes.
** The final scene of "Band Geeks" takes place in a Super Bowl-esque event with live-action human audience and everything.
** In "Sandy's Rocket", "Big Pink Loser", "Bubble Troubles", "Mooncation", and "Squidward the Unfriendly Ghost", among other episodes, the characters remain animated when they emerged from the ocean's surface.
** Similarly, in "Christmas Who?" after [=SpongeBob=] sends everyone's Christmas lists to the surface in bottles, the bottles remained animated on the surface.
*** And in that episode, Santa Claus is also live action, even when he's underwater.
** In "[=SpongeGuard=] on Duty", [=SpongeBob=] goes to the beach, where he gets jealous of Larry. He imagines what it would be like if he were a lifeguard, cutting to live-action footage of someone in a [=SpongeBob=] mascot suit in a lifeguard tower.
** In "You're Shoe's Untied", [=SpongeBob=] watches footage of live action coral that he seems to find... [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything rather suggestive]]. When Gary comes in, he changes the channel to live action footage of a football game.
** "Suds" ends with live action footage of [=SpongeBob=] and then Patrick, represented as a real sponge and starfish respectively, being used to wash various things.
** In "The Fry Cook Games", after [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick attempt to look like desserts, photographs of the desserts are shown.
*** In that same episode, when various fish are accidentally burned, they become photographs of fish sticks.
** In "Neptune's Spatula", King Neptune accidentally shows [=SpongeBob=] live action footage of a man taking a shower when he tries to show him Atlantis.
** In "No Free Rides", [=SpongeBob=] accidentally hits the narrator with his boat. He's shown from the waist down as a live-action human in a diving suit.
** In "Artist Unknown" and "Culture Shock", Squidward imagines his own face over superimposed over the faces in photographs of humans.
** In "The Camping Episode", Patrick's magazine features a photograph of a bear.
** In "Imitation Krabs", Mr. Krabs is placed in a live-action box of French fries when [=SpongeBob=] thinks he's an imposter.
** In "Tea at the Treedome", after [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick temporarily dry out in Sandy's water-free house, they become a photograph of a sponge and starfish.
** "Truth or Square" has a new, ''very'' trippy [[SpecialEditionTitle opening sequence]], remade in stop-motion, and with a new rendition of the theme by Cee-Lo. "The Legend of Boo-kini Bottom" also uses this.
** "New Student Starfish" ends with a live-action baby chick hatching out of an animated egg.
** "Boat Smarts" features live action footage of a crash test dummy with Squidward's face superimposed over the face.
** In "Frozen Face-Off" the characters are pursued by a stop-motion monster.
** [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick's escape through the perfume department in "Shanghaied."
** The song in "Ripped Pants" overlays [=SpongeBob=] and other characters over live action footage of the ocean.
** The live-action man in a gorilla suit from the end of "I Had an Accident".
** "Texas", "Sandy, [=SpongeBob=], and the Worm", "Rodeo Daze", and "Pest of the West" all feature flashbacks to Sandy's life in Texas, which entirely consist of live action and photographs.
** In "Wishing You Well", Mr. Krabs sarcastically wishes to be cooked and eaten. The last scene of the episode is thus live action footage of a man preparing to eat a crab.
** "Procrastination" features [=SpongeBob=] imagine live action footage of racecars.
** Plankton's holographic meatloaf in "The Algae's Always Greener" is a photograph made slightly transparent.
** In the climax of "[=SpongeBob=] [=SquarePants=] vs. The Big One", the Flying Dutchman is sent to Davy Jones' Locker where he is met by a live-action Davy Jones (of the Monkees fame).
** The [[WesternAnimation/TheSpongeBobMovieSpongeOutOfWater second movie]] combines live-action, traditional animation, ''and'' computer-generated animation.
** The [[MilestoneCelebration 20th anniversary special]] "[=SpongeBob=]'s Big Birthday Blowout" features [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick taking an animated tour across the live-action universe.
** "Wormy" features a close-up of a buzzing horsefly when the butterfly lands on characters' faces.
** "Clams" features live action black-and-white footage of an orchestra playing.
** The end of "Graveyard Shift" features a live-action photograph of Nosferatu the vampire flicking a light switch.
** "Life of Crime" has [=SpongeBob=] mention that running is good for the buns and thighs, then it cuts to a live-action shirtless man who says "Ja, buns and thighs!" in an Austrian accent.
** [[WesternAnimation/TheSpongeBobMovieSpongeOnTheRun The third movie]] features the characters talking to human actors in an animated world.
** The beginning of "Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy IV" has [=SpongeBob=] pressing through the wall of the kitchen when he hears that Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy are at the Krusty Krab, his indentation rendered in CGI before he rips through.
** The movie [=SpongeBob=] watches in "Krab Borg" is live action.
** "Snowball Effect" begins with live-action footage of icebergs.
** "The Bully" features a scene of [=SpongeBob=] in the toilet portrayed by a live-action sponge.
** In "Code Yellow", one of the new noses that [=SpongeBob=] gives Squidward is a live-action squid.
** When [=SpongeBob=] explores Karen's insides in "Karen's Virus", everything is rendered in CGI except himself, an idealized Plankton, Karen's perceptions of the Krusty Krew, and her memories of past episodes.