| 1 | [[quoteright:350:[[Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/whoframedrogerrabbit.jpg]]]] |
| 2 | [[caption-width-right:350:Nope, nothing [[WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes looney]] about this!]] |
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| 4 | ->''"Roger Rabbit and his cartoon comrades cast real shadows. They shake the hands and grab the coats and rattle the teeth of real actors. They change size and dimension and perspective as they move through a scene...and the cartoon characters look three-dimensional and seem to be occupying real space."'' |
| 5 | -->-- '''Creator/RogerEbert''', in his [[http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/who-framed-roger-rabbit-1988 review]] of ''Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit'' |
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| 7 | A special effect intended to show live-action, flesh-and-blood performers interacting with animated (usually ink-and-paint) characters. |
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| 9 | If the story is a {{comedy|Tropes}}, and it usually is, the characters tend to be [[MediumAwareness medium-aware]] and recognize each other as belonging to either category. However, in some early examples like ''Pete's Dragon'', animation is just a special effect and the animated characters are in-universe not different from the actor. |
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| 11 | This is one of the oldest special effects in Hollywood (the 1914 animated film, ''WesternAnimation/GertieTheDinosaur'', actually had creator Creator/WinsorMcCay interacting with animated Gertie in real time ''on a vaudeville stage''), and has been done several times with varying degrees of realism, though it was probably [[TropeNamers perfected]] by the 1988 [[Creator/TouchstonePictures Disney]]/[[Creator/StevenSpielberg Amblin]] film, ''Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit''. |
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| 13 | A sub-category of this trope is any story where cartoon characters are real and exist independently from "real" human beings (which may or may not be set in ToonTown and/or an AlternateTooniverse). Since this is such a visual idea, it's not very common in forms of media that lack a visual aspect, although exceptions exist--including [[Literature/WhoCensoredRogerRabbit the trope maker itself]]. |
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| 15 | This is mainly a hand-drawn animation trope. While CGI characters are often [[SerkisFolk depicted alongside live-action characters]], they are usually depicted as live-action in-universe, and are rarely portrayed as visually or stylistically different from their live-action surroundings. CGI characters, because they have the potential to look more "real" to audiences, are not as prone to this kind of portrayal. |
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| 17 | A SubTrope of MediumBlending, and an extended version of {{Rotoscoping}}. Compare and contrast SerkisFolk and StarringSpecialEffects. Not to be confused with LiveActionCartoon, which is about live-action media making use of typical cartoon tropes. |
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| 19 | Compare AnimatedActors (the in-universe counterpart to this trope), RefugeeFromTVLand, {{Disneyesque}}. |
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| 21 | !!Example subpages: |
| 22 | [[index]] |
| 23 | * [[RogerRabbitEffect/{{Advertising}} Advertising]] |
| 24 | * [[RogerRabbitEffect/WesternAnimation Western Animation]] |
| 25 | [[/index]] |
| 26 | |
| 27 | !!Other examples: |
| 28 | [[foldercontrol]] |
| 29 | |
| 30 | [[folder:Anime & Manga]] |
| 31 | * The opening of ''Anime/ExcelSaga'' briefly features Excel, Hyatt, Nabeshin, and a few other characters running through a [[RealLife real-world]] environment. However, they do not interact with any live-action performers. |
| 32 | * ''Anime/TwilightOfTheCockroaches'' is a rare Japanese example of the first type of Roger Rabbit Effect. A live-action character lives in an apartment with a society of anime roaches. |
| 33 | * The wall calendars for ''Manga/{{Yotsuba}}'' feature Yotsuba drawn into color photographs, sometimes interacting with real people. |
| 34 | * [[spoiler:"Mom"]] in ''Anime/PantyAndStockingWithGarterbelt''. |
| 35 | ** This trope also seems to be referenced in "Vomiting Point", when Panty and Stocking (drawn in their regular cartoony art style) visit a realistic city populated by much more realistically drawn people. |
| 36 | * ''Anime/SpellboundMagicalPrincessLilPri'': The second opening and ending sequences feature the live-action singers with the animated characters whom they represent. The show's replacement, the ''VideoGame/PrettySeries'', also does this. |
| 37 | * The end of the first half of the 12th and final episode of the ''Manga/PopTeamEpic'' anime adaptation has [[spoiler:Creator/ShoutaAoi making a live action [[GuestStar guest appearance]] AsHimself in an otherwise animated world, interacting with Popuko and [[TakenForGranite a petrified Pipimi]], and taking them back through time during the credits]]. |
| 38 | * During the cooking musical number in the first episode of ''Anime/KiraKiraPrecureALaMode'', a live action human, only shown by their hands, is seen cooking alongside Ichika. |
| 39 | * The end credits of ''Anime/{{Sarazanmai}}'' feature photos and video footage of real world locations that appear in the anime, some of which feature the animated characters standing around in them. |
| 40 | * Possibly the earliest example of this trope in Japanese animation can be seen [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7c5LEgQQW8E in a trailer for the 1960 Toei produced movie adaptation]] of ''Literature/JourneyToTheWest''; Son Goku enters the live action office of the then president of Toei Animation and shakes hands with him. It's just a few seconds, but still impressive given the technology of the time. |
| 41 | * One episode of ''Anime/JewelpetSunshine'' is focused on Yaginuma, a not-very-sapient goat who is somehow part of Sunshine Academy's high school classes. Ordinarily Yaginuma is animated like the rest of the characters, but in this specific episode he's live-action and some Jewelpets, who are animated like normal, appear next to him. At the end of the episode, Labra notices he looks different and realizes she never undid whatever spell she cast on him to make him live-action before doing just that. |
| 42 | [[/folder]] |
| 43 | |
| 44 | [[folder:Asian Animation]] |
| 45 | * In ''Animation/{{Canimals}}'', the animated Canimals appear in live-action environments, and sometimes humans appear alongside them. |
| 46 | [[/folder]] |
| 47 | |
| 48 | [[folder:Comic Books]] |
| 49 | * A storyline from ''ComicBook/AstroCity'' features an animated lion character, Loony Leo, coming to life and discovering the ups and downs of Hollywood stardom. |
| 50 | * ''ComicBook/CaptainCarrotAndHisAmazingZooCrew''[[note]]Just to clear things up, he's not ''[[Literature/{{Discworld}} that]]'' Captain Carrot.[[/note]] inhabitants of the DC Universe's Earth-C, a WorldOfFunnyAnimals. Occasionally, they lend a hand to characters such as Franchise/{{Superman}} and the ComicBook/TeenTitans. |
| 51 | * ''Dorothy'', a PhotoComic adaptation of ''Literature/TheWonderfulWizardOfOz'', mixes photos of human models with illustrated creatures and environments for the Oz scenes. |
| 52 | * ''ComicBook/HowardTheDuck'' would fall into in this trope, except for the fact Howard is technically a flesh-and-blood being, and not an actual cartoon character. |
| 53 | * The ''Warren Strong'' episodes of ''ComicBook/TomStrong''. |
| 54 | * A section of the second volume of Comicbook/{{Promethea}} by Alan Moore and J.H. Williams III is done with photographs of the action rather than drawings. |
| 55 | * An issue of a ''Franchise/{{Superman}}'' comic had Mr. Mxyzptlk step out of the comic as it was being drawn and discuss the storyline with the staff of DC Comics. The sequence was done with photographs of the actual staff in their actual office, with a still-toony Mxyzptlk composited in. |
| 56 | * Issue #8 of ''WesternAnimation/CountDuckula'' (Marvel, based on the Cosgrove-Hall TV cartoon) has Duckula conversing with a live Geraldo Rivera on the cover. The Geraldo in the body of the story is drawn. |
| 57 | * ComicBook/MegatonMan when he stumbles into ComicBook/SavageDragon's world. |
| 58 | * ''ComicBook/TheUnfunnies'': While most of the action takes place in the cartoon world, whenever the human antagonist is referenced, real photographs of him accompany the narration and make their way into the scenery or panels. |
| 59 | [[/folder]] |
| 60 | |
| 61 | [[folder:Fan Works]] |
| 62 | * Technically, most {{Intercontinuity Crossover}}s in fanfiction between live-action and animated series are these. How it is treated varies widely, though. Most frequently, it's not mentioned at all or {{Handwave}}d. |
| 63 | * This Toon Round, one of the side-continuities of ''Fanfic/ThisTimeRound''. In one RoundRobin, it's stated that a Toonside character interacting with the regular Outside setting must be carrying his own laws of physics around with him to exist at all. |
| 64 | * "Ponies in the real world" is a fairly popular genre in the ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' fanbase, both in fanfics and in videos on [=YouTube=] such as [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44MjLCZhT10 MLP Car]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExLpjtAIyR4 Decals]] |
| 65 | * ''Fanfic/AIsA'': ''Gridlocked'', as well as subsequent stories set in this universe, show this as a consequence of whatever has merged several universes together. Humans real and animated exist alongside 3-D rendered characters and Muppets with those who travel to it taking on their appearances from their home universes. |
| 66 | [[/folder]] |
| 67 | |
| 68 | [[folder:Films]] |
| 69 | * The {{Trope Namer|s}} and page image provider is ''Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit''. The special effects included several mechanical props covered by the animation to create the illusion of Toons being able to interact with real objects. A barroom had slots in the floor and puppeteers with large poles so animated penguins could carry real serving trays. A sink was built with a robotic pipe thingy so Roger Rabbit could splash in the sink and spit out a mouthful of water. One of the most elaborate effects was for the scenes with Benny the Cab; they were filmed with a custom rig which was essentially a steel frame with tires and a small gasoline engine to move about, with Creator/BobHoskins sitting on an elevated platform holding a fake steering wheel while the actual driver was down below, concealed by overlaying Benny in post. As one critic said in their review, "although this wasn't the first time that cartoon characters have shared the screen with live actors, it was the first time they did it on their own terms and made it look real." |
| 70 | * Creator/RalphBakshi's ''WesternAnimation/HeavyTraffic'', ''WesternAnimation/{{Coonskin}}'' and ''Film/CoolWorld''. The latter gave this trope its alternate title, Noids and Doodles. |
| 71 | * The 1992 "[[JustForFun/XMeetsY Roger Rabbit meets Evil Dead]]" B-movie ''Evil Toons'' had this. |
| 72 | * ''Film/{{Monkeybone}}'' used this concept with stop-motion animation. |
| 73 | * ''Film/TheAdventuresOfRockyAndBullwinkle'' animated the titular duo (but rendered in cel-shaded CGI) with everyone else portrayed by live actors, [[spoiler:including the villains who revert back to their animated forms, by the end of the movie.]] |
| 74 | ** This was lampshaded in the trailer, where the announcer brags about the film being "a groundbreaking blend of animation and live action." One of the characters says "What about that movie ''Roger Rabbit''?", to which Fearless Leader angrily replies "Shut up! This is totally different!" (These lines appear in the film after Fearless Leader states there has never been a way to kill a cartoon character until now.) |
| 75 | * ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' examples: |
| 76 | ** ''Film/LooneyTunesBackInAction'' |
| 77 | ** ''Film/SpaceJam'', based on Nike commercials pairing WesternAnimation/BugsBunny with Michael Jordan. In the sequel ''Film/SpaceJamANewLegacy'', this is {{Downplayed|Trope}} as UsefulNotes/LeBronJames is rendered as an animated character when in Tune World, while the Looney Tunes characters become "realistic" CG characters for the climactic basketball game with live-action [=LeBron=]. [[spoiler:Played straight after the game, when the Tunes are restored to their 2D-animated forms while the humans remain live-action; also applies when Bugs and the other Tunes enter the real world.]] |
| 78 | ** Bugs Bunny and Tweety Bird had cameos in the live-action film ''My Dream Is Yours''. |
| 79 | ** Porky and Daffy jump off their animation paper and interact with humans in ''Film/YouOughtToBeInPictures''. |
| 80 | * ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry'' examples: |
| 81 | ** ''Film/AnchorsAweigh'' features a dance number with Creator/GeneKelly and [[WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry Jerry]]. |
| 82 | ** Both Tom and Jerry also appeared with Esther Williams in a DreamSequence from ''Dangerous When Wet''. |
| 83 | ** ''Film/TomAndJerry2021'' keeps its animated characters animated, in the real world setting, using stylized CGI animation for the titular duo and all other animal characters. However, it's finished to match the classic 2D art style and animation of the original cartoons as much as possible. |
| 84 | * Back to Kelly again; his anthology film ''Invitation to the Dance'' features a segment based on Sinbad the Sailor set in an animated [[{{Qurac}} Middle Eastern fantasy world]]. |
| 85 | * ''WesternAnimation/RockADoodle'', the only Creator/DonBluth film to actually feature live actors. |
| 86 | * Disney used this for decades, starting with the ''WesternAnimation/AliceComedies'' series, which started in 1923, and kept right on going through ''Film/TheReluctantDragon'', ''Film/SoDearToMyHeart'', the eternally un-re-released ''Film/SongOfTheSouth'', ''Film/MaryPoppins'', ''Film/BedknobsAndBroomsticks'', ''Film/PetesDragon1977'', ''WesternAnimation/TheThreeCaballeros'', ''WesternAnimation/FunAndFancyFree'', ''WesternAnimation/MelodyTime'', ''WesternAnimation/{{Fantasia}}'', ''WesternAnimation/Fantasia2000'', and ''Film/{{Enchanted}}''. |
| 87 | * The opening of the [[Creator/{{Disney}} "Best of Disney-]][[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4TuB_cNIaY 50 Years of Magic"]] documentary shows Michael Eisner interacting with WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse. [[Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit Roger Rabbit]] and [[WesternAnimation/{{Fantasia}} a few others]] also appear. |
| 88 | * The short film ''WesternAnimation/OnceUponAStudio'', made to celebrate Disney Animation's 100th anniversary, revolves around numerous Disney characters (both 2D and 3D) roaming the halls of the real-life Roy E. Disney Animation Building. However, as revealed in a video episode of "D23 Inside Disney", many of the live-action props the animated characters interact with are also CGI, including Goofy's ladder and camera. |
| 89 | * Fred Willard and an ensemble of live-action extras share the screen with CGI animated robots on ''WesternAnimation/WallE''. Although in this case, they are only seen in footage of the past and thus never interact with the current-day cast. WordOfGod says the two styles are indicative of the (d)evolution undergone by humanity in the intervening centuries. |
| 90 | * The climax of ''WesternAnimation/TheSpongeBobSquarePantsMovie'', as a continuation from the series, establishes that the cartoon characters are simply living in an otherwise live-action world when they get to the surface. The movie introduces the point that when the characters are dried up on land, they die and become live-action, inanimate sea objects -- enough moisture will bring them back to their cartoony life. ''WesternAnimation/TheSpongeBobMovieSpongeOutOfWater'' also has live-action/animated sequences. However this time, the animation is done with CGI instead of traditional hand-drawn animation whenever real people show up. |
| 91 | * Detective Whiskers in ''Film/LastActionHero'' is a cartoon cat in a detective outfit, but nobody but Danny sees anything weird about him. |
| 92 | -->'''Jack Slater:''' He was supposed to be back. He was only suspended for a month. Now shut up!\ |
| 93 | '''Danny:''' Listen to what I'm saying: a cartoon cat walked right into the police station! Hello!\ |
| 94 | '''Slater:''' He'll do it again tomorrow. What's your point?\ |
| 95 | '''Lt. Dekkar:''' That cat is one of the best men I've got! |
| 96 | * The Italian AffectionateParody ''WesternAnimation/AllegroNonTroppo'' features more interaction with the cartoon characters, who periodically disrupt the live-action. |
| 97 | * Unexpectedly shows up in the Taiwanese martial arts comedy, ''Film/KungFuWonderChild'', when the BigBad goes OneWingedAngel and turns into a cartoonish Chinese dragon to assault the heroes. [[https://youtu.be/6Og-JTCMQWE?si=PcslLbcWZKrrJxmU&t=5064 It's as goofy as it sounds]], but the ''whole'' movie is rather silly. [[spoiler:And then the protagonist turns an amulet he's wearing into a giant cartoon seal to destroy the BigBad's cartoony dragon form]]. |
| 98 | * ''Film/TheMask'' presents an interesting case. The title artifact transforms anybody who wears it into a bizarre living cartoon until daybreak, but although they convincingly defy reality in the way you'd expect from a Creator/TexAvery cartoon, they're still portrayed by live-action performers. Otis the dog (from the sequel, ''Film/SonOfTheMask'') becomes [[SerkisFolk all-CGI]] if he wears the magical mask, but Milo in the original only had a CGI head over the real dog's body. |
| 99 | * In the film version of ''Literature/ThePhantomTollbooth'', Milo becomes a cartoon after crossing the tollbooth. This leads to an amusing sequence in which he goes back and forth in disbelief until the tollbooth's voice tells him to get on with it. |
| 100 | * ''Film/SonOfThePinkPanther'' opens with [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGStWWB8mY4 such a sequence]], and several of the other films in the series end with one. |
| 101 | * The Don Knotts vehicle ''Film/TheIncredibleMrLimpet'' has a bit of this. All the underwater sequences were animated, but there were a few scenes where Limpet (a man turned into a cartoon fish) peeks his head out of the water to converse with live-action characters. |
| 102 | * The character interviews on the bonus features of ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles'', unlike previous character interviews which cut between two different video feeds, plops the characters from the film in the same room as live action interviewers. Here, the characters are adamant that the movie is computer generated while ''they'' are real people to whom the events of the movie happened to, after which they sold the rights to the story. When Frozone asks if he looks like a cartoon, his interviewer responds "Kinda." |
| 103 | * The 1974 Swedish film ''Dunderklumpen!'' has a live-action setting with mostly animated characters. Camilla, Jens and their father are practically the only characters in the movie played by real-life actors. |
| 104 | * The main character of the short film ''Film/BadlyDrawnRoy'' is a cartoon while everyone else is live-action, including his parents. In-universe, this occurrence is a genetic improbability similar to two parents giving birth to a child of a different race, and while uncommon and remarkable it isn't considered unbelievably impossible. |
| 105 | * In ''Film/TheFlintstonesInVivaRockVegas'', cavemen are live-acted while dinos and other animals are animated. |
| 106 | * In ''Film/NineToFive'', cartoon forest animals appear in Violet's [[ImagineSpot fantasy vision]] of doing in Mr. Hart (where she is dressed like Snow White). |
| 107 | * ''Film/FiveHundredDaysOfSummer'' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8tJoIaXZ0rw#t=01m31s has a scene with animated birds.]] |
| 108 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheLegoMovie'' reveals that [[spoiler: the movie's events are actually being acted out by a boy and his father, and later, his younger sister.]] |
| 109 | * The UrExample is likely the 2-minute film ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Enchanted_Drawing The Enchanted Drawing,]]'' in which a man draws a cartoon face and also draws a picture of a glass and a bottle of wine (which he then takes and drinks from), draws a top hat and a cigar on the cartoon head (which he then takes; wearing the hat and smoking the cigar, to the displeasure of the cartoon), gives them back to the cartoon and walks off-screen. The copyright is 1900, but the film may be even older. |
| 110 | * Used in the Creator/YoramGross, which both have animated humans and animals interacting with live-action environments. |
| 111 | ** Perfect examples are The Little Convict and The Seventh Match, both which follow the classic version of the trope (Pete's Dragon-esque). |
| 112 | ** The obscure film ''WesternAnimation/Epic1984'', the characters, who were animated, were placed in videos or pictures of real or realistically painted environments to a somewhat bizarre but charming effect. |
| 113 | * ''Film/TheLittleRascals'' short "Thundering Fleas" features animated, anthropomorphic fleas alongside the live action footage. |
| 114 | * In ''Film/Ghostbusters2016'', Patty asks Rowan to transform into something small and cute before their final confrontation. Rowan responds by briefly transforming into the cartoon ghost from the Ghostbusters logo. |
| 115 | * The majority of the movie splits the live-action and animation segments, but ''WesternAnimation/TheWaterBabies1978'' has some small instances of blended scenes. |
| 116 | * In a piece of promotional material for ''WesternAnimation/HowToTrainYourDragonTheHiddenWorld'', Creator/KitHarington tries to play against Toothless in an audition for an "Untitled Fantasy TV Drama." HilarityEnsues. |
| 117 | * ''Film/ForbiddenPlanet'': At the climax of the movie, the invisible Id Monster [[SeeTheInvisible is made visible]] when it passes through a force field or is struck by ray-gun fire, and is represented by an animated outline that resembles [[{{Cephalothorax}} an enormous fanged head mounted on two clawed legs]]. |
| 118 | * ''Film/ImThinkingOfEndingThings'': PlayedForHorror. Briefly, following a mental breakdown, the janitor seemingly hallucinates the maggot-infested pig (as an animated piece) and follows it into the school. |
| 119 | * The dimensions of TheMultiverse in ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManSpiderVerse'' are mostly depicted with varying styles of animation, but ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManAcrossTheSpiderVerse'' shows some are live-action. Besides archived scenes from the Raimi Film/SpiderManTrilogy and Film/TheAmazingSpiderManSeries displayed on in-universe screens, the Spot has a short scene talking to [[Film/Venom2018 Mrs. Chen]] while the captured villains in the Spider-Society base includes the MCU version of the Prowler. |
| 120 | * ''WesternAnimation/TrollsWorldTour'': In the animated Poppy and Branch's internal thoughts while brainwashed by Chaz, a live-action person who's only visible from the waist below shows up to give them "Fizzie Blues Juice". They return in the ending credits, where they can be seen above the waist, but [[TheFaceless their head remains unseen]]. |
| 121 | * ''Film/ChuckECheeseInTheGalaxy5000'' does this once Chuck E. and his friends arrive on Planet Orion (as well as when in the Awesome Adventure Machine laboratory), with the team and visitors in live-action with their surroundings animated with video game-esque CGI. |
| 122 | * The ''Film/DiaryOfAWimpyKid'' movies will occasionally have the characters appear animated in the style of the original book illustrations before turning live-action and at some point a live-action Greg will usually be narrating in fron of a book illustration background at some point. |
| 123 | * The 2022 ''Film/ChipNDaleRescueRangers'' movie borrows the idea of cartoon characters being actors from ''Roger Rabbit'' and takes it to the PresentDay[[note]]Roger himself even makes a cameo in one scene[[/note]], with various art styles from classic Disney to CGI (both good ''and'' bad, [[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons Simpsons-style]], and even anime (and that's just the background extras!). The main "cartoon" characters are actually [[PaintedCGI 3D rendered]] with CelShading. |
| 124 | * In the ''Animation/PleasantGoatAndBigBigWolf'' film ''[[Film/PleasantGoatAndBigBigWolfILoveWolffy2 I Love Wolffy 2]]'', when Wolffy and Wilie arrive in the real world, they remain cartoon characters until they transform into humans. They bump into live-action actors before they become humans. |
| 125 | * The educational film ''Film/PlaySafe'' has an owl and a robin in a live action setting, but they don't interact with the human characters at all. |
| 126 | [[/folder]] |
| 127 | |
| 128 | [[folder:Literature]] |
| 129 | * ''Literature/WhoCensoredRogerRabbit'' by [[Creator/GaryWolf Gary K. Wolf]] and the sequels, not-quite-sequels, [[SpiritualSuccessor spiritual successors]], and short stories it spawned, (not to mention [[AdaptationDistillation a much more famous]] [[Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit film adaptation]]) featuring an [[AlternateHistory alternate 1947 Hollywood]] where the animated stars are just as real as the live-action film stars. Unlike the movie, the book presents the Toons as comic-strip characters (talking via speech balloons, for instance) rather than animated. One scene has Eddie attempting to reattach Roger's nose first with tape and then glue. |
| 130 | * The ''Franchise/DoctorWhoExpandedUniverse'' novel ''The Crooked World'' implies this -- the {{Planetville}} ''du jour'' is inhabited by cartoon characters. However, none of the protagonists seem to notice that the people they're interacting with are strangely coloured, although they do notice they're generally odd-looking and don't seem to work according to the normal laws of reality, biology, and so on, and the cover features a cartoon of the Doctor, so it's not clear exactly what is going on. |
| 131 | * In Simon R. Green's ''Shadows Fall'', cartoon creatures are among the many inhabitants of the titular town of fictional and legendary beings. When the town is invaded by outsiders, some find out just how dangerous it is to fight semi-mutable creatures that ''always'' bounce back when injured... |
| 132 | * While no humans are ever present in the ''Literature/MaxAndRuby'' series, a spin-off series by Creator/RosemaryWells called "Baby Max And Ruby" combines real life objects such as [[http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61LhAdTbD3L._SX258_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg toys and food with the characters]]. |
| 133 | * In ''[[Literature/TheMagicians The Magician King]]'', it's near impossible for magicians to turn themselves completely invisible and those that do never look normal again. They look more like paintings than people. |
| 134 | * ''Literature/ToonGirl'' stars Susan Painter, a FourthWallObserver [[DifferentlyPoweredIndividual GeneHuman]] with CartoonPhysics powers and an {{Animesque}} sketch look within a realistic world. |
| 135 | [[/folder]] |
| 136 | |
| 137 | [[folder:Live-Action TV]] |
| 138 | * ''Series/Danger5:'' Kilroy, a 2D cartoon dog, in "Final Victory", who previously hasn't appeared before, interacts with live-action Pierre and Hitler. |
| 139 | * ''Series/WalkingWithDinosaurs'' has CGI (or sometimes puppet) dinosaurs on live-action backgrounds, complete with footprints, splashes in water, kicking up dust, and even [[{{Squick}} urinating]]. Also, sometimes live-acted animals interact with animated ones, like animated ''Australopithecus'' watching live-acted vultures. |
| 140 | * Back in 1968, Creator/HannaBarbera released a short-lived series called ''The New Adventures of Huckleberry Finn'', which featured live-action actors as Huck, Tom Sawyer, and Becky Thatcher, being pursued through various cartoon ''milieux'' by an animated Injun Joe. For the live-action intro, Injun Joe was played by Ted Cassidy (a.k.a. Lurch from The Addams Family). The series occasionally attempted some ambitious effects, such as having the human characters dance around their animated partners, first in front then behind. |
| 141 | * ''Re-Animated'' and its sequel series ''Series/OutOfJimmysHead'' both focus on a child who receives an emergency brain transplant from the BrainInAJar of [[MrAltDisney legendary animator]] Milt Appleday, with the result being that he can see Appleday's characters in real life. |
| 142 | * ''Series/LizzieMcGuire'' used a cartoon of the title character to represent her thoughts. |
| 143 | * The ColdOpen for one episode of ''Series/TheDrewCareyShow'' had WesternAnimation/DaffyDuck trying to apply for a job at Winfred Lauder. |
| 144 | * Similarly, a brief gag on ''Series/NightCourt'' features Wile E. Coyote as a defendant. |
| 145 | * The [[Series/WaltDisneyPresents Walt Disney anthology series]] often had Creator/WaltDisney interacting with his cartoon creations. A perfect example is a 1956 episode entitled "A Day in the Life of Donald Duck", in which WesternAnimation/DonaldDuck goes through a typical day at the Disney Studios. Along the way, he meets [[Series/TheMickeyMouseClub the Mouseketeers]], the [[ActingForTwo voice of Donald himself]] Clarence Nash, and of course, Walt Disney. |
| 146 | * A Creator/HannaBarbera TV special based on ''Literature/JackAndTheBeanstalk'' has a live-action Jack and Gene Kelly (again) going up the beanstalk into an animated world. |
| 147 | * Vague example: Creator/TheBBC version of ''Literature/TheLionTheWitchAndTheWardrobe'' has animated characters coexisting with live-action, but there was no distinction intended -- the animation effect was apparently due to Japanese influence on the production, leading to odd scenes like live-action characters riding a dragon that was animated sometimes, and a practical effect in other shots. It's a bit jarring. |
| 148 | * A similar example somewhere between television and movie, is the original ''Franchise/{{Superman}}'' Serials in which characters would become animated when flying, and return to live actors once on the ground. |
| 149 | * The Dancing Baby in ''Series/AllyMcBeal''. |
| 150 | * On one episode of ''Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus'', as [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=crIJvcWkVcs Mrs. Premise and Mrs. Conclusion]] question how to put down dead budgies, one of Creator/TerryGilliam's cut-out animations from the previous link strolls by (it's really a blow-up on a large piece of board being carried around). The two old ladies greet it with a hearty "Good morning, Mrs. Cut-Out!" This was only one of many invocations, as the animations were often required to link together the live-action sketches. |
| 151 | * ''Series/TimAndEricAwesomeShowGreatJob'': {{Parodied|Trope}} with Grum, an [[StylisticSuck intentionally terrifying]] CGI character. |
| 152 | * ''Franchise/{{Pumuckl}}'': The kobold protagonist of a German children's TV series. Everything else is live-action; Pumuckl is animated. |
| 153 | * Done in an episode of ''Series/NedsDeclassifiedSchoolSurvivalGuide''. Ned gets occasional help from WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents; justified since it's an episode about daydreams and they're just hallucinations. |
| 154 | * WesternAnimation/BeavisAndButtHead once appeared "live" at the MTV Music Awards via this technique. |
| 155 | ** They appeared to beside Creator/DavidLetterman in the ''Late Show'' set, as guests promoting their [[WesternAnimation/BeavisAndButtheadDoAmerica film]]. The use of a foul vocabulary by this pair managed to annoy Dave, as seen in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYqB0m4XYRQ this clip.]] |
| 156 | ** Speaking of Dave, when ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsonsMovie'' came out, Homer was brought in to do the Top Ten List. |
| 157 | ** The same honors want to [[WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy Peter and Stewie Griffin]]. |
| 158 | * The Argentinian soap ''Mi familia es un dibujo'' tells the misadventures of a family in which a pregnant woman has cartoon cravings in the last months of her pregnancy and then gives birth to a readheaded, freckled and hyperactive cartoon boy (!). It even spawned three ''movies''! More information in [[http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mi_familia_es_un_dibujo the other wiki]] (in Spanish). |
| 159 | * The ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' segment "Cluckin' Chicken" is this. |
| 160 | * Stewie Griffin from ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' makes a cameo appearance in an episode of ''Series/{{Bones}}''. Not just on a screen, but in the interrogation room itself! [[spoiler:He's in fact an hallucination from Booth, who suffers from a brain tumor.]] |
| 161 | * WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls once made an animated appearance on ''Donny & Marie'' (the late 90's Fox talkshow, obviously, not the 70's ABC variety show). They also helped Robert Osborne introduce a sing-along showing of ''Film/TheWizardOfOz'' on Creator/TurnerClassicMovies in 2002, when their own movie was about to be released. |
| 162 | * Former Creator/{{CBC}} children's block ''Series/GetSetForLife'' did this with Radio and TV, two CG characters who would function next to the two human cohosts Creator/{{Alyson|Court}} and Michael, and mostly existed within their Space Case. |
| 163 | * On the live-action game show ''Series/WhereInTheWorldIsCarmenSandiego'', Carmen and all of her crooks are cartoon characters. Greg Lee's "father" Gus lampshaded it in one episode. |
| 164 | -->'''Gus Lee''': Listen, son, I've been meaning to talk to. Are you aware that this, uh, [[AccidentalMisnaming "Carmine Santiago"]] lady you've been chasing around is... she's a cartoon, son. She's not a real person. You're aware of that.\ |
| 165 | '''Greg''': Dad, that's how the show works.\ |
| 166 | '''Gus Lee''': As a matter of fact, all the crooks are cartoons! And to put them in jail, you just pull on a chain that's connected to nothing! That is ridiculous! |
| 167 | * [[{{WesternAnimation/Rugrats}} Angelica Pickles]] once appeared as a guest on ''The Rosie O'Donnell Show''. (She also collaborated on O'Donnell's album ''A Rosie Christmas''.) |
| 168 | * The live broadcast of the UsefulNotes/{{Academy Awards|Ceremonies}} sometimes has cartoon characters as presenters. They almost always present the Best Animated Short award, although there's been exceptions (WesternAnimation/WoodyWoodpecker for the Special Achievement Award to Creator/WalterLantz, WesternAnimation/BeavisAndButtHead presenting Best Sound Effects, [[Franchise/TheIncredibles Edna Mode]] for Best Costume and {{Film/Ted}} for Best Sound Editing/Mixing). [[WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast Belle and the Beast]] and [[WesternAnimation/ChickenLittle Chicken Little and Abby Mallard]] (the latter appearance had a ''hilarious'' lampshade of the HalfDressedCartoonAnimal trope where Abby made makeshift pants out of the envelope) are among those who have presented for Best Animated Short. Almost always, with a few exceptions, whenever animated characters present at the awards, their mouths are covered up by the envelope when announcing the winner. For the Best Animated Feature awards, the characters from the nominated films [[https://web.archive.org/web/20160715214907/http://maxtaroisheretoo.tumblr.com/post/79006596218/the-2006-oscars-are-real-and-this-happened-in-real are sometimes shown sitting in the audience]]. If those weren't enough, WesternAnimation/DonaldDuck ''co-hosted'' the 1957 ceremony! |
| 169 | * A few ''Series/MrShow'' episodes do this. The "Biosphere" sketch features Creator/DavidCross, after unsuccessfully trying to pick up woman scientists, interacting with LimitedAnimation animals, trying to get advice. Also, to get David out of a cult, Creator/TomKenny reveals who he'll meet when he goes to heaven, all of who are animated. Also the Disney-esque birds in the Intervention link that fly along with a singing John Ennis. |
| 170 | * UsefulNotes/MacysThanksgivingDayParade: |
| 171 | ** Done (very poorly) in the 1981 edition with WesternAnimation/StrawberryShortcake and Ed [=McMahon=]. At one point someone walked in front of the camera [[SpecialEffectFailure in the spot where Strawberry was being overlaid]], [[http://www.platypuscomix.net/darkvault/1981parade14.jpg resulting in Strawberry seemingly floating on top of her.]] |
| 172 | ** And if puppets should be counted as this trope, similarly to Donald Duck cohosting the Academy Awards, Series/{{Alf}} cohosted the 1989 parade with ''Series/{{Today}}'' anchors Willard Scott and Deborah Norville. Alf mostly did his thing in a window overlooking the parade route. At the end of the parade, Alf also [[http://youtu.be/doj3NLMrzmY?t=2m55s appeared in a superimposed bubble]] alongside the two human hosts. |
| 173 | * In 1970, comedian Pat Paulsen interviewed WesternAnimation/FoghornLeghorn and WesternAnimation/DaffyDuck on two separate episodes of his ''Pat Paulsen's Half a Comedy Hour.'' See both interviews [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?x-yt-ts=1422579428&v=TRjenm4JSJ4&x-yt-cl=85114404 here]] |
| 174 | * The eponymous [=McGee=] in ''Series/McGeeAndMe'', who was an animate cartoon character created by the live-action Nicholas Martin, who both had adventures and learned things in a live-action neighborhood. It was also done the other way as Nicholas sometimes entered fully animated worlds in {{Imagine Spot}}s and {{Dream Sequence}}s. |
| 175 | * ABC's prime time preview of their 1976 season Saturday morning shows had Jimmy Osmond and Scooby-Doo performing the Osmonds' 1971 confection "Yo-Yo." |
| 176 | * Similarly, the year before, the Cosby Kids introduced CBS's 1975 season line-up and intermingled with the live-action stars of ''The Shazam!/Isis Hour'' (Isis kisses Russell on the cheek in one scene). |
| 177 | * ''Series/PressYourLuck'' had the show's penalty, the Whammy, appear in front of the contestants' score and perform a cartoony stunt to erase it when it was landed upon at the big board. Similarly done in its 2002 reboot ''Series/WhammyTheAllNewPressYourLuck'' which was in CGI as where the original was computer-composite 2-D. Reverted to the limited animation version when it was revived in 2019 with Creator/ElizabethBanks. |
| 178 | * NBC's 1969 sitcom ''My World...And Welcome To It'' was based on stories by author James Thurber and had his art style rendered in animation (by the [=DePatie=]-Freleng studio). The animation would interact with series star William Windom (as James Monroe, assuming the Thurber avatar). |
| 179 | * The obscure 1987 ChristmasSpecial ''A Mouse, A Mystery, and Me'' is about an author named Jill Roberts and her animated mouse sidekick/co-author Alex investigating the kidnapping of a MallSanta. |
| 180 | * The main character of ''Series/SonOfZorn'' is an animated character in a live-action world. |
| 181 | * The '90s Spanish variety show ''¿Pero Esto Que Es?'' ("But What Is This?") was co-hosted by an animated rabbit named Vicky, who also starred in the occasional short on the show. |
| 182 | * If CGI fits into this trope, ''Series/OddSquad'' employs this often, showing dinosaurs, laser chickens and flying goldfish among the live-action cast, among many other CGI creatures as well as gadget effects. Agent Ocean, his profession being dealing with CGI creatures, is the character to use this trope. |
| 183 | * ''Series/TheLateShowWithStephenColbert'' at times features interviews with cartoon versions of personalities, the most frequent being Usefulnotes/DonaldTrump. |
| 184 | * ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dA9DY44fZNk Hollywood Dog]]'' was a 1990 unsold pilot where an animated, talking dog interacted with live actors, in a rather blatant swipe of the Roger Rabbit formula. |
| 185 | * ''Series/KingdomAdventure'': Most of the special effects (e.g. fire, rain, and magic) were done using hand-drawn animations that interacted with live-action puppets and objects, and when Dagger shapeshifted into his vulture-form, he went from a live-action puppet to a cartoon bird. |
| 186 | * The French 70s-80s show ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0XcUAy9236g Les Aventures électriques de Zeltron]]'' features the robot puppet Zeltron superimposed on live action footage, usually in his visits to Earth. He's also placed over cartoon backgrounds, like in his space station [[EarlyInstallmentWeirdness and in his adventures in the early episodes]]. The way his puppet was visually altered after filming gave him a brightly colored appearance, in which he looks like a CGI cartoon character. |
| 187 | * In the second season premiere of ''Series/Teachers2016'', an animated bluebird visits each of the teachers as they are getting ready to go in for the first day of school. |
| 188 | * ''Series/SmackThePony'': One sketch features a real-life Snow White working in an ordinary office, with animated bluebirds flying around her head and cartoon bunnies skipping beside her. |
| 189 | * ''Series/{{Happy}}'': The titular character is a blue, flying unicorn created via CGI who interacts with human detective Nick Sax, played by Creator/ChristopherMeloni. |
| 190 | * ''Llan-Ar-Goll-En'' is a Welsh show starring a live-action detective and his 2D cartoon dog partner which, of course, uses this effect extensively, as demonstrated by [[https://vimeo.com/99609925 this showreel]]. |
| 191 | * The ''ABC Weekend Special'' TV adaptations of the ''Literature/RalphSMouse'' novels ("The Mouse and the Motorcycle," "Runaway Ralph" and "Ralph S. Mouse") combine live-action with stop-motion animation. They primarily star live humans and stop-motion talking mice (and Ralph would often interact with the main human boy in each story). An animatronic owl is also featured in "The Mouse and the Motorcycle", and "Runaway Ralph" also featured stop-motion cats (even though "The Mouse and the Motorcycle" had also featured a live cat and dog). |
| 192 | * ''Series/{{Loki|2021}}'': Miss Minutes, the mascot of the TVA, is an orange cartoon clock that appears several times throughout the series as a holographic image interacting with other characters. |
| 193 | * The intro to ''Return of The Saint'' has one. |
| 194 | * Following the "Dekirukana?" segments of ''Series/InaiInaiBaa'' during the Kana-chan and Rina-chan eras, there would be a live-action segment showing a kid doing an activity inspired by the song that just played, with an animated Kuu talking to them. |
| 195 | * ''Series/{{Llanargollen}}'': As an inversion to ''WesternAnimation/BluesClues'', Prys is a real life human in a predominantly live-action world, where every single animal, including his DetectiveAnimal sidekick Ceri the Dog-tective, are animated. |
| 196 | [[/folder]] |
| 197 | |
| 198 | [[folder:Music Videos]] |
| 199 | * A music video for The Apples in Stereo song "Signal in the Sky (Let's Go!)" features the band members playing their song in a cardboard recreation of the city of Townsville while WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls fly around in the background beating up a guy dressed as the orange fish monster with the many eyes. You know the one. |
| 200 | * The video for "Opposites Attract" famously has Music/PaulaAbdul dueting with MC Skat Kat, a cartoon cat.[[note]]Despite the video coming out less than a year after ''Roger Rabbit'', Abdul, a lifelong fan and later friend of Creator/GeneKelly insisted that it was always meant as an homage to ''Film/AnchorsAweigh''.[[/note]] Continued in the video for [[VirtualCelebrity MC Skat Kat's]] single "Scat Strut", where a cartoon version of Paula makes a small cameo. |
| 201 | * Most of Music/{{aespa}}'s music videos have them interacting with their digital counterparts. |
| 202 | * The video for "Breathless" by Music/NickCave & The Bad Seeds has cartoon foxes, rabbits, and other animals running around. |
| 203 | * The video for Music/PeterGabriel's "Music/{{Sledgehammer|1986}}" from ''Music/{{So}}'' has Gabriel next to stop-motion characters. Blending was actually made more believable by stop-motion animating [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pixilation Peter Gabriel himself as well]]. |
| 204 | * The video for Music/AHa's "Take On Me" featured a pencil-sketch character "drawing" a live-action woman into his life. |
| 205 | * Music/{{Gorillaz}} occasionally interact with live-action performers; during their Grammys performance, their computerised selves performed alongside Madonna. Another video shows them having fun with Jack Black at Venice Beach. |
| 206 | ** Within the canon, it varies as to whether they ''know'' they're cartoon characters; 2D once said he's pleased to be a cartoon character because "Paternity suits don't stick 'cos I don't have any DNA." (Apparently they ''do'' stick when the mother is another cartoon character, as shown by the existence of 2D's numerous illegitimate children.) Murdoc also shrugged off a potential murder charge after [[spoiler:the ''El Manana'' ThePlan in which he used the crashing windmill to kill off a stalker of his]], on the grounds that "I don't even have fingerprints." Murdoc claims Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett, the actual band creators, are their producer and photographer/video producer, respectively (although, as he further stated, "it's all bull because Damon mostly sits around playing his banjo or looking up 'ethnic instruments' on Google, and Jamie's mainly designing his beard"). Then there's [[http://i35.tinypic.com/m9vz7o.jpg this]], to prove the point visually. There was also the interview with Music/FranzFerdinand that had a "photoshoot" with both band's members. |
| 207 | * Music/{{Vocaloid}}: Hatsune Miku did this during her "live-action" concert in Los Angeles. Each time a member of her band was introduced, she would turn to them, smile, and wave. In fact, the entire concert was an example of this. A virtual diva in the real world? Sweet! |
| 208 | * The smooth jazz band Music/TheRippingtons once did a music video for their song "Tourist in Paradise", in which an animated version of the band's trademark anthropomorphic mascot, the Jazz Cat, interacts with the members and some chicks on a beach. |
| 209 | ** They also did a video for "Curves Ahead", which has the Jazz Cat performing alongside the band members and snowboarding with them. |
| 210 | * The French pianist Music/RichardClayderman has a clip, "Smiling Joey", where for some reason he's at his piano in a boat floating down a river while various animated woodland critters are playing the parts of the orchestra. |
| 211 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NhMfJ2RxqrQ Disney's Princess]] Music/{{Kesha}}. |
| 212 | * A.B. Quintanilla III Y Los Kumbia All Starz - [[http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xcsrdc_a-b-quintanilla-iii-y-los-kumbia-al_music Speedy Gonzalez]] |
| 213 | * German Punk Band Music/DieArzte filmed a video for their song "Männer sind Schweine" starring [[Franchise/TombRaider Lara Croft]].... [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=404oPn6tudE Watch it here.]] |
| 214 | * This is done (badly) in the video for Billy Ocean's "Get Outta My Dreams Get Into My Car". A cartoon duck is crudely overlaid onto the live action footage, but it doesn't convincingly interact with the environment nor [[BigLippedAlligatorMoment seem to have anything to do with what's going on]]. |
| 215 | * Jazz singer Al Jarreau[[note]]He may be best remembered for the theme song to ''Series/{{Moonlighting}}''.[[/note]] did this in his video for "Mornin'". |
| 216 | * Music/{{The Rolling Stones|Band}}' "Harlem Shuffle" (''Music/DirtyWork'') has an animated music video, where the live-action scenes are directed by Creator/RalphBakshi and the animated scenes by Creator/JohnKricfalusi. |
| 217 | * Meghan Trainor's "Better When I'm Dancin'" has her filmed alongside the classic ''ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}}'' characters (the song was made as a tie-in with ''WesternAnimation/ThePeanutsMovie''). |
| 218 | * In Music/TheB52s' "Song For A Future Generation" video, an animated bird lands on Kate's finger at around the 2:11 mark. |
| 219 | * Many of Music/JackStauber's videos combine live-action with animation. |
| 220 | * Music/BarenakedLadies' video for "Get In Line" (off the ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'' soundtrack) has the band superimposed into the animated setting of the show, where they perform the song and spy on resident ConspiracyTheorist Dale Gribble. Cartoon versions of the band also made a non-speaking cameo at the beginning. |
| 221 | * Full Force's "Ain't My Type of Hype" features verses by a fictional rapper named E-Coff, who is apparently just one of the group members using a vocal effect - in the music video he's portrayed as a stylized, vaguely [[Music/PublicEnemy Flava Flav]]-eseque cartoon character; mostly instead of interacting with anything else, he just appears in a black bubble overlaid on live action footage, but he does briefly dance alongside the band, and also raps while leaning against a live action parking meter. |
| 222 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Miraculous+Theme+song The official music video]] for the ''WesternAnimation/MiraculousLadybug'' theme song has the live-action singers interact with Ladybug and Cat Noir. |
| 223 | * Music/{{Twice}}'s "Candy Pop" video features a little girl watching an anime featuring the animated Twice members, who become real partway into the video. Near the end of the video, the members crash into the real world, much to the little girl's delight. |
| 224 | * Music/WeyesBlood's video for "It's Not Just Me, It's Everybody" features an animated HollywoodToneDeaf cellphone that tries to upstage Weyes Blood. |
| 225 | [[/folder]] |
| 226 | |
| 227 | [[folder:Pinballs]] |
| 228 | * Creator/DataEast's ''[[Pinball/Playboy35thAnniversary Playboy 35th Anniversary]]'' pinball shows real-life people (Hugh Hefner and the Playmates) interacting with cartoon characters (Little Annie Fanny, the Playboy Femlin, and the Playboy Rabbit). |
| 229 | * Similarly, the backbox translite for ''Pinball/LastActionHero'' includes Whiskers the cartoon cat hanging out with the rest of the human cast. |
| 230 | * ''Pinball/SpaceJam'', like the film that inspired it, mixes the live-action UsefulNotes/MichaelJordan with various WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes characters. |
| 231 | [[/folder]] |
| 232 | |
| 233 | [[folder:Puppet Shows]] |
| 234 | * ''Film/TheMuppetsAtWaltDisneyWorld'' ends with the Muppets being taken to see "the boss", who is an animated Franchise/MickeyMouse. He and Kermit are both members of the WeirdTradeUnion Fictional Animal Stars of America. |
| 235 | [[/folder]] |
| 236 | |
| 237 | [[folder:Theater]] |
| 238 | * As ''WesternAnimation/GertieTheDinosaur'' was originally a ''vaudeville'' act with a man performing ''live on stage'' with a cartoon character, it fits here. Let [[Website/{{Wikipedia}} The Other Wiki]] [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gertie_the_dinosaur explain]]: |
| 239 | -->[=McCay=] would stand on stage in front of a projection screen, dressed in a tuxedo and wielding a whip. He would call Gertie, who appeared from behind some rocks. He then instructed her to perform various tricks, similar to a circus act. He would appear to toss a prop apple to her -- [=McCay=] palmed the apple while Gertie caught an animated copy of it... |
| 240 | ** The act ended with [=McCay=] appearing to climb onto Gertie's back (actually, he stepped through a hole in the screen, and a filmed copy of himself climbed onto Gertie), and the two rode off into the distance, which resulted in ''three'' mediums interacting with each other. |
| 241 | * ''Theatre/AvenueQ'': Nobody bats an eyelash at puppets and humans interacting (though a team-up with the cast of ''Theatre/FiddlerOnTheRoof'' for Broadway Cares explored the idea in greater depth.) The audience can easily be lulled into ignoring the actors onstage who are controlling the puppets. This can be jarring when the cast comes out for the curtain-call at the end ''without'' the puppets in their hands. ("Who's ''that'' guy?") |
| 242 | ** In fact, the characters seem to think the difference between monster puppets and human puppets is more striking than between human puppets and human... humans. However, in various in-character interviews and events, the characters seem to be aware that humans and puppets are different (they sometimes reveal themselves as AnimatedActors). One video featuring Rod even treats puppets as a separate race, with him calling himself "the first Republican Puppet-American". |
| 243 | [[/folder]] |
| 244 | |
| 245 | [[folder:Theme Parks]] |
| 246 | * At the Ride/UniversalStudios parks: |
| 247 | ** The pre-show of the former ride, ''Ride/TheFuntasticWorldOfHannaBarbera'', had Bill Hanna and Joseph Barbera interacting with their own creations in person. |
| 248 | ** Pulled off rather amazingly at this [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3n8LGNjMBEY attraction]] at Universal Studios Japan, which has an animated ''WesternAnimation/WoodyWoodpecker'' interact with a live-action character. |
| 249 | [[/folder]] |
| 250 | |
| 251 | [[folder:Video Games]] |
| 252 | * ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros'', insofar as [[VideoGame/MetalGear Solid Snake]] can be considered a "normal"-looking human being. Or, for that matter, [[Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda Link]], [[Franchise/{{Metroid}} Samus]], and any other "normal"-looking human characters. And the coexistence of Link and [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTheWindWaker Toon Link]]. Sort of an odd case. In ''[[VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosMelee Melee]]'', one of the Event Matches pits you against what the game calls the "[[SlidingScaleOfSillinessVersusSeriousness realistic]]" characters, presumably contrasted with the "cartoony" characters. But the supposedly realistic characters include the anthropomorphic animal [[Franchise/StarFox Fox]] (though Fox and friends are space aliens who just happen to look like a bunch of FunnyAnimal cartoon characters). And the Final Destination stage's changing background is meant to show the characters actually traveling from the video game world to the real world. |
| 253 | %%* ''Go! Go! Hypergrind!'' |
| 254 | * ''VideoGame/{{Toonstruck}}'', wherein the real world animator [[PunnyName Drew Blanc]] (played by Creator/ChristopherLloyd) gets sucked into the toon world. |
| 255 | %% ZCE * Similarly, ''VideoGame/ComixZone'' for the Sega Genesis. |
| 256 | * ''Franchise/KingdomHearts'': |
| 257 | ** ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsII'': |
| 258 | *** Consider the mere existence of a ''Franchise/PiratesOfTheCaribbean'' world, called Port Royal in this game. It is a bit jarring, because it's done in a more realistic, grittier style than the anime/cartoon styles of the rest of the game. it's even {{lampshade|Hanging}}d. The protagonists are baffled upon landing on Port Royal and immediately comment that the world looks different. ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsIII'' rectified this by giving the trio pirate attires when they return the third time. |
| 259 | *** Subverted with Space Paranoids, which is based on ''Film/{{Tron}}''. The only live-action-style characters in that world are Tron and Sark, though unlike the cast in Port Royal, they look a bit closer to the main human cast. It helps that Space Paranoids is all blue and shiny, and that Sora, Donald and Goofy receive [[TwentyFourHourArmor armor]] [[FisherKingdom that match the world's style]]. |
| 260 | ** Played straight with The Grid, which was based on ''Film/TronLegacy'', which appears in ''VideoGame/KingdomHearts3DDreamDropDistance''. Like with Port Royal, the cast found there are more realistic, which results in a few awkward scenes, as Sora and Riku, despite their [[FisherKingdom world-exclusive]] [[TwentyFourHourArmor armor]], still resemble anime characters. |
| 261 | ** The more cartoonish classic Disney characters (like Mickey, Donald, Goofy, and Winnie the Pooh), and even realistic looking ones like the Disney Princesses, stick out like sore thumbs next to the Square Enix and OriginalGeneration characters, who use a more modern [[{{Anime}} anime]] style. |
| 262 | * One TV special with ''VideoGame/BackyardSports'' characters had Chuck Downfield (animated) talking with live-action NFL stars. |
| 263 | * ''VideoGame/CosmicOsmo'' has a framed photo of himself with Jethro from ''Series/TheBeverlyHillbillies''. |
| 264 | * ''VideoGame/NicktoonsMLB'' features both Nickelodeon characters and real MLB players. |
| 265 | * ''VideoGame/GarrysMod'': |
| 266 | ** Some of the animations that have realistic characters interacting with cartoonish characters (i.e. ''VideoGame/Left4Dead'' characters interacting with ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'' characters) could count as this. |
| 267 | ** Videos in which the ''Left 4 Dead'' characters interact with characters from other Valve games (not just [=TF2=]) also count as this, since the other Valve games exist as games in the [=L4D=] universe. |
| 268 | * ''VideoGame/PokerNightAtTheInventory''... sort of. The game features the normal 3D for characters such as [[VideoGame/SamAndMaxFreelancePolice Max]] and [[VideoGame/TeamFortress2 The Heavy]], while using cel-shading for [[WebAnimation/HomestarRunner Strong Bad]] and [[Webcomic/PennyArcade Tycho]]. |
| 269 | * ''[[VideoGame/SegaSuperstars Sonic and Sega All-Stars Racing]]'': The realistic [[VideoGame/VirtuaFighter Jacky, Akira]], [[VideoGame/{{Shenmue}} Ryo Hazuki]], and [[VideoGame/CrazyTaxi B.D. Joe]] race against the cartoonish Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog and friends, [[VideoGame/SuperMonkeyBall Aiai]], VideoGame/{{Billy Hatcher|AndTheGiantEgg}}, and more. They can also get SquashedFlat, hit with flying boxing gloves and missiles, and have other cartoonish things happen to them. [[VideoGame/JetSetRadio Beat]] may also count since he comes from a realistic-type game but with stylish graphics. Real-life racer Danica Patrick joins the party in ''All-Stars Racing Transformed''. |
| 270 | * ''VideoGame/BendyAndTheInkMachine'' features living cartoons (who are fictional in-universe) emerging from the Ink Machine as you explore the abandoned animation studio. In Chapter 1, [[spoiler:Bendy himself]] appears to be out for blood, while you can also find [[spoiler:his old partner/nemesis Boris the Wolf, strapped to a table and vivisected.]] Chapter 2 gives us [[spoiler:Boris alive and well]]. And then there's [[spoiler:Sammy Lawrence, [[BodyHorror who at this point is a hybrid of human and ink-dripping cartoon]].]] Then there's [[spoiler:Alice Angel, made from the body of her first voice actress, Susie Campbell]]. Other examples revealed are [[spoiler:The Butcher Gang, ANOTHER Alice Angel, made from the audio logs of her second voice actress, Allison Pendle, and another Boris, made from the audio logs of Thomas Connor, the man who built the Ink Machine in the first place.]] [[spoiler:The last chapter reveals that the Ink Machine was made for an attempt to bring the Toons to life so that people could interact with them and get to know them better... [[GoneHorriblyWrong But it didn't]].]] |
| 271 | * ''VideoGame/TwinGoddesses'' is an obscure Japanese fighting game where the titular twins Nina and Syllin as well as the BigBad Carmilla are portrayed by actresses in digitized live action, while everybody else - including Carmilla's minions - are hand drawn cartoon characters. |
| 272 | * ''VideoGame/NeedForSpeedUnbound'' combines cel-shaded {{Animesque}} character models with realistic environments and vehicles. |
| 273 | [[/folder]] |
| 274 | |
| 275 | [[folder:Web Animation]] |
| 276 | * ''WebAnimation/ExtraCredits'': At the end of "Video Game Lawyers Tackle Fair Use", IRL Matt surprises his animated counterpart by entering the studio because IRL Zoey left the door open. IRL Matt then continues his sponsor message for Nebula. |
| 277 | * Shawn Keller's ''WebAnimation/GuardiansOfPondonia'' uses this heavily, featuring in its first episode the main character (an animated WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic {{Expy}}) teleported to Earth and interacting with humans. |
| 278 | * The ''WebAnimation/{{Madballs}}'' webseries is animated this way. Live action scenes have the Madballs animated into them, with dubbed voices and animated eyes and mouths placed over the humans. |
| 279 | * ''WebAnimation/RedVsBlue'': |
| 280 | ** The [[WebAnimation/RedVsBlueSeason14 season 14]] episode "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ts4EMinfKTE Red Vs. Blue Vs. Rooster Teeth]]" has the cast ending up in the Creator/RoosterTeeth offices, in fully CG versions instead of being ''Franchise/{{Halo}}'' models. |
| 281 | ** For a canon case, Season 16's "It Just Winked at Me" has a cyclops portrayed by RT co-founder Gus Sorola being sent to battle the animated[=/=]{{machinima}}ted characters. |
| 282 | * ''WebAnimation/ShutUpCartoons'': ''Oishi High School Battle'' featured a stereotypical anime MagicalGirl going to a normal human high school. Oishi, her pet, and every other character in her family and demon are 2D animated and set in a live-action environment. |
| 283 | * ''WebAnimation/SonicForHire'' had an episode where Sonic and Tails interact with the series' creators in live-action. |
| 284 | * ''WebAnimation/Supermarioglitchy4sSuperMario64Bloopers'': The video "Mario in real life!?" features Mario and several other characters (Luigi, Peach, Bowser, Toad, [[Series/{{Teletubbies}} Po]], [[spoiler:[=McShyGuy=]]] and Old Man) visiting IRL [=SMG4=]'s house via a portal between the real life and [=Project64=] dimensions. [[spoiler:At the end, [[VideoGame/{{Minecraft}} Steve]] [[HereWeGoAgain brings back the portal and causes the Castle to end up in the Real World]].]] |
| 285 | * The ''WebAnimation/ToonSandwich'' spin-off, "Toon Sandwich Live!" is a slice-of-life sketch depicting the channel's CreatorCouple, Joe and Rita Artmann, interacting with animated fictional characters. |
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| 287 | |
| 288 | [[folder:Webcomics]] |
| 289 | * Sam Sprinkles, from ''Webcomic/ZebraGirl'', comes from an alternate dimension inhabited by cartoon animals (literally; they are the cartoons of the main ZG universe). In the process of saving his dimension, he ends up trapped in Sandra's. |
| 290 | * ''Webcomic/LoveMeNice'' takes place in a ''Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit''-like world where toons are a whole different species with RuleOfFunny bred into the blood (it's apparently regarded as the toon equivalent of [[ComicStrip/TheBoondocks nigga behavior]], judging by an argument Mac and Claire have on the subject), and cartoons are live productions made with toon actors. There's even a [[ToonTown "Toon Quarter"]] (outside which items like bottomless handbags are contraband), but it's implied to be more like a toon ''ghetto''. |
| 291 | * The Website/PlatypusComix story ''Webcomic/TrueBelievers'' portrays such comic characters as ComicBook/SpiderMan as actual people, and such editors as Creator/{{Joe|Quesada}} [[NoCelebritiesWereHarmed Quesadilla]] as both their bosses and their gods (any possible comic-world occurrence they write down instantly happens to the characters). |
| 292 | * A bizarre example occurs in the tenth issue of ''Webcomic/{{Sonichu}}'', in which the author inserts photographs of herself to replace her normal drawn self in order to destroy an evil expy of 4chan...with [[ItMakesSenseinContext the power of rock and roll]]. |
| 293 | * The premise of ''Webcomic/GreystoneInn'', in which some of the stars of the ShowWithinAShow are living cartoon characters. |
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| 295 | |
| 296 | [[folder:Web Original]] |
| 297 | * WebVideo/AmiYamato is a 3D-animated virtual vlogger who interacts with real-life people and objects in her videos. She also inserts herself into existing movies and TV shows and interacts with the characters. |
| 298 | * A Website/NicoNicoDouga video ([[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iW3Ck1Y6CWk now on YouTube as well]]) by an international VideoGame/{{Touhou}} doujin group named Perry Street has a 3D animated Remilia Scarlet and Sakuya Izayoi taking a tour around the real-life UsefulNotes/SanFrancisco. |
| 299 | * WebVideo/TheGamingPixie does this when she travels inside the games she reviews. |
| 300 | * ''[[http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4614551809359272199&q=fear+came&pr=goog-sl El Origen del Miedo]] [How Fear Came]'' is a school video based on one of Creator/RudyardKipling's ''[[Literature/TheSecondJungleBook Second Jungle Book]]'' stories, in which some of the animal characters are played by kids in costumes while others are CGI. Obviously the animation is a bit crude, but you have to give them credit for ambition. |
| 301 | * [[https://youtu.be/cv1o_9S2iDk Off the Wall]] is a short student film by Creator/AlexHirsch featuring an animation student named Nick and his animated friend Wallby, a living doodle that moved around on the walls of the school. |
| 302 | * [[http://thatfellowinthecoat.com/animatedanalysis.php Animated Analysis]] on ''WebVideo/MrCoatAndFriends'' consists of a human reviewer, and a sentient drawing of a face who floats around. |
| 303 | * The "[=SpongeBob=] in Real Life" videos created by Website/YouTube user [[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYnDCKQwl75NjX7AbO58fqQ JChaseFilms]] revolve around [=SpongeBob=], Patrick and the other characters from the show ending up in the real world. |
| 304 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?gl=US&hl=en&client=mv-google&v=HjGrHBpfqCo&nomobile=1 Law-Abiding Engineer]] and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-T2I6sEsrY&feature=channel&list=UL The Demo Knight]] are the trailers for ''Film/LawAbidingCitizen'' and ''Film/TheDarkKnight'', but with the ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'' characters superimposed into them. |
| 305 | * The ''VideoGame/CutTheRope'' accompanying shorts "Om Nom Stories" feature [[RidiculouslyCuteCritter Om Nom]] in the real world. |
| 306 | * ''WebVideo/TheCartoonMan'' trilogy, in which the live action characters use numerous cartoon props, and travel into and out of [[AlternateTooniverse a cartoon dimension]]. |
| 307 | * The series ''My Anime Girlfriend'' features a stereotypical anime girl dating a live-action man. |
| 308 | * Various ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' fan videos blend together live-action footage with animation vectors of various characters from the show. A good example is ''WebVideo/RainbowDashsPreciousBook'', the story of a human who constantly attempts to steal Rainbow Dash's ''JustForFun/DaringDo'' book. |
| 309 | * The [[MemeticMutation infamous]] Creator/MikeMatei video [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7TZcW8wmmo4 Minecraft with Gadget]] has Matei interact with an animated WesternAnimation/InspectorGadget. |
| 310 | * ''WebVideo/CLWEntertainment'': The ''Manga/{{Doraemon}}'' fandub announcement [[https://youtu.be/ySEfqD4HB7Q "Just Finished a HUGE Episode of Doraemon!!"]] has an animated clip of Fenneko from ''Anime/{{Aggretsuko}}'' layered on top of live-action footage of Collin. |
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