the Fox Kids promo featuring Godzilla in 1999
- While most Orangina commercials feature all CGI characters, they have some that include live-action humans, like this one.
- Those e-surance commercials in which famed pink-haired superspy and nerd heartthrob Erin Esurance "draws" various customers to their auto insurance.
- Many cereal mascots frequently hang out with live-action kids. It's commercials like these that actually inspired the Trope Namer's book.
- Several commercials for Cartoon Network's Cartoon Cartoons shows depict the characters in the real world. One such example was the Hard Days Night spoof "Cartoon Cartoons: Always On The Run."
- Chuck E. Cheese commercials as of the "Avenger" era feature an animated Chuck E. interacting with real world kids and grownups in various situations. He Shifted to CGI following the "rockstar" relaunch.
- The American Express extended spots featuring Jerry Seinfeld and Superman. There's also a commercial featuring Garfield and his creator Jim Davis.
- This NSPCC advert uses this trope to dramatic (and very disturbing) effect, depicting a live-action father physically abusing his animated son. At the end of the advert, the son gets thrown down the stairs, dizzily falls down in cartoon fashion... and turns into a real, live-action boy lying dead on the floor.
- A Japanese commercial (full length) for Lotte Gum, featuring Haruhi Suzumiya characters.
- This 1991 "Reading Is Fundamental" PSA starring Fievel Mousekewitz, which aired after a showing of ET. Fievel suddenly appears in the live-action home of a family that just finished watching the aforementioned movie and tells them all about the "Reading Is Fundamental" initiative, while various celebrities hi-jack the family's TV, all the while the family treats this as an Unusually Uninteresting Sight. The animation was cheaply lifted straight out of An American Tail: Fievel Goes West, and Fievel's dialogue doesn't even match up with his mouth movements.
- Also done (arguably much better) in a commercial for Fievel Goes West on VHS. This time they bothered to use original animation.
- During the early days of The WB, Michigan J. Frog would constantly appear on the Warner Bros. lot during nighttime singing anything about The WB's shows or even sponsors. During the 1998 season, Michigan's frog songs were ditched out while he was later ditched out during 2005 as the WB itself was refocusing on the teen market.
- Most early Pokémon commercials had the characters drawn in the style of the anime with live-action backgrounds, often with human actors (here's an example). Around the DS era, the Pokémon were CGI instead.
- Many of the commercials for the Jak and Daxter trilogy as well as the racing game it later spawned, Jak X: Combat Racing, had the title characters interacting with live-action people.
- Betty Boop did a commercial for Hypnôse alongside Daria Werbowy.
- There were a series of Pretty Cure commercials for the Japanese restaurant "Joyfull" where the characters interact with diners eating there.
- Some Japanese commercials for shoujo anime such as Ojamajo Doremi and Shugo Chara! have people dressed like the characters talking to the animated characters.
- Phineas and Ferb made a special guest appearance in a commercial for the Los Angeles Marathon.
- The Transformers did this several times in the later toy commercials and this shoe commercial.
- The MetLife insurance company had a contract that allowed them to use the characters from Peanuts for their advertising, allowing them to run commercials like Lucy and Charlie Brown trying to argue with a MetLife actuary to sell insurance for five cents. One commercial in particular, becomes a Massive Multiplayer Crossover not just featuring the gang (who disappear after the opening shots), but also the Looney Tunes, He-Man and Battle Cat, Atom Ant, Mystery Inc., Mr. Peabody and Sherman, Mr. Magoo, Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids, Casper the Friendly Ghost, The Jetsons, Quick Draw McGraw, Top Cat, Voltron, The Banana Splits, and Richie Rich among several others. Even Waldo joins in.
- Parodied in this 1998 Sprite commercial (directed by Spike Jonze), where a mascot pops off the label of a bottle of "Sun Fizz" as a mom serves it to her two kids. They (and the dog) react to the grinning CGI imp in a straightforward manner.
- This commercial for a Dr. Slump game on the Game & Watch.
- The Nike commercials with Michael Jordan and Bugs Bunny that inspired Space Jam.
- The Energizer Bunny:
- A commercial for Mr. Dip corn chips, the fictional product being advertised, features an animated version of the titular chip in a live-action setting as he dives into a bowl of guacamole, then tries to evade the Energizer Bunny when he interrupts the commercial.
- During Energizer's "villains" ad campaign, two of the worlds the Energizer Bunny (who at the time was a live-action robotic model) wandered into were the animated worlds of Looney Tunes and Rocky and Bullwinkle. In these commercials, the Bunny faced off against Wile E. Coyote and Boris and Natasha, respectively.
- Another commercial featured a live-action animator drawing cartoon rabbits, including the Energizer Bunny, which came to life, until he erased them out of disapproval (with the obvious exception of the Energizer Bunny, as the battery in his mechanical eraser ran out at the time). Like the other two rabbits, the Energizer Bunny himself was animated for this commercial.
- The CGI revival campaign mostly features the Bunny interacting with equally CGI settings and characters, but a few ads ("Snowball", "Hard-Boiled" and "Hare Raising") have the bunny interacting with humans and real-world surroundings.
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- The MySims series did this in it's ads, specifically for the original, Kingdom, and Party. The characters from the games would show up and hand teenagers a Wii remote, which would prompt them to start customizing the world around them (or holding a minigame party in some guy's brain, in the case of MySims Party).
- Used a lot in old Cartoon Network bumpers, usually featuring the characters as Animated Actors for the Cartoon Network Studios, working alongside live-action staff.
- Scooby-Doo makes a cameo in the 1982 promo for ABC.
- A notable commercial in the Got Milk? campaign features Mario entering the real world to get himself some milk.
- The Trix Rabbit also makes an appearance in another ad.
- The Trix Rabbit also makes an appearance in another ad.
- Several of CBC's promos from the late 80s feature the main characters of Babar and Cyril Sneer from The Raccoons.
- The inverse occurs in this series of commercials for the Opel Corsa featuring The Flintstones.
- Mario gets arrested by some live-action police officers in this ad for Mario Party
- Various Monster Cereals commercials featured the monsters interacting with live-action children.
- The commercials for hhgregg feature the store's animated mascot, hh, interacting with live-action hhgregg employees.
- In 1992, the commercials for the Regina Steamer Carpet Cleaner featured an animated Pig-Pen from Peanuts in a live-action house setting, trying unsuccessfully to evade the titular Regina.
- In addition to the above-mentioned tie in to The Simpsons Movie, Burger King would utilize this for their Pokémon 2000 commercial, a commercial featuring Shaggy and Scooby-Doo, and for the Burger King Kids Club gang back in the 90s.
- British bank Halifax ran a campaign featuring several classic Hanna-Barbera characters (Top Cat, the Flintstones and Shaggy and Scooby) featuring the characters interacting with employees telling them about the benifits of opening an account with the bank.
- Underdog makes a quick cameo in this Visa Check Card commercial.
- Most M&M's commercials feature the animated spokescandies interacting with real-life people.
- McDonaldland:
- Commercials for Super Mario Bros. 3 toys from 1990 feature an animated Mario in both live-action and animated settings. One commercial features Mario escaping from his game and into the real world, where he eats the lunch of the boy playing his game. Another commercial features a live-action Ronald and Grimace in the Mushroom Kingdom, where they share their lunch with Mario.
- Commercials for the Happy Birthday Happy Meal from 1994 feature a live-action Ronald and puppet happy meal box interacting with various animated characters, including Sonic the Hedgehog, Barbie, Brother and Sister Bear, Baby Kermit and Baby Miss Piggy, Babs and Buster Bunny, Snoopy and Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck.
- Iam Hungry's introductory commercial features the titular character being animated in CGi and interacting with a live-action Ronald.
- Some Kirby commercials mix animation and live action:
- The North American commercial for Kirby's Adventure features an animated Kirby interacting with live-action humans in various ways, like throwing an outlaw out of a saloon in the old west, or doing his best Errol Flynn impression in the Middle Ages.
- Commercials for Kirby's Dream Land 2 depicted animated versions of Kirby and the animal friends storming a live-action Bad Guy Bar. has an animated Kirby like throwing
- This commercial for Mellow Mushroom Pizza Bakers has an animated version of its mascot, Mel interacting with a live-action woman at a Mellow Mushroom restaurant chain, the woman explains that he is a cartoon. then, he asks for beer and the woman says that she should buy cartoon beer. Another commercial has animated versions of Mel and Wizard at the same restaurant chain from the previous commercial. In it, Mel lets Wizard make a cartoon pizza turn into a real pizza, but fails.
- This also applies with the 2018-present Lucky Charms commercials
- Sonic the Hedgehog:
- A commercial for Sonic's debut game has Danita Stokes, the president of H.A.G. (Humans Against Genesis) complain about Sonic's character. The commercial is live-action, but Sonic himself is animated, mocking Danita from inside the picture frame he's in, then running out of the frame when she tries to grab him.
- In a commercial for Progressive featuring Sonic, the titular character is animated in CGI while the Progressive characters remain live-action.
- The commercial for the Sonic Boom video games, Rise of Lyric and Shattered Crystal depicts Sonic and his friends helping a little girl save her pet cat, who is stuck in a tree. The little girl, the cat, and the setting are all live-action, but Sonic and his friends are all animated in the same CGI that is used in the TV Series.
- When Dennis the Menace was the mascot for Dairy Queen, commercials for the DQ Kids Pick-nic depicted the animated versions of Dennis and his friends in a live-action setting, interacting with real people.
- For the 2008 Olympics, three public service announcements were made by qubo, showing the characters from their shows interacting with the athletes. The first contained Bob and Larry talking to Shaw Johnson, the second contained the Women's Volleyball team interacting with the cast of 3-2-1 Penguins! and the third starred Sanya Richards and the cast of Jane and the Dragon.
- GEICO has a spot where Yogi Bear and Boo Boo invade the outdoor picnic at a family's mountain home.
- Givenchy in partnership with Disney released a advertising short with Oswald the Lucky Rabbit interacting with live-action humans in an animated setting.
- Cuphead and his pal Mugman briefly interact à la Roger Rabbit in a Cuphead Nintendo Switch Gameplay Trailer.
- Paramount+'s "Mountain of Entertainment" commercials features both the live-action and animated stars of the service's shows and movies interacting with each other and the fully CGI mountain environment.
- Nickelodeon’s NickAtNite had a bumper where George Lopez stumbles into the NickJr. block and meets Dora the Explorer and Boots and tells him that he needs to be at NickAtNite.
- In September 1997, Nickelodeon had a few hosting segments with Larisa Oleynik interacting with the (animated in CGI) titular character of Hey Arnold! during a week of programming called "3D Nogglevision."
- Scruff McGruff was often 2D animated in his PSAs, illuminating viewers on neighborhood dangers in front of real human children.
