History Main / RogerRabbitEffect

* Disney used this for decades, starting with the [[AliceComedies "Alice"]] series, which started in 1923, and kept right on going through the eternally un-re-released ''SongOfTheSouth'', ''MaryPoppins'', and ''BedknobsAndBroomsticks'', to 1977's [=~Pete's Dragon~=]. They're still using it today.
* There's also ''TheThreeCaballeros'', Walt Disney's [[DidNotDoTheResearch "celebration"]] of Latin American culture featuring DonaldDuck (American duck) teaming up with José Carioca (Brazilian parrot) and Pancho Pistolas (Mexican rooster). At one point, Donald and José do a little dance number with live-action entertainer Aurora Miranda.

* The Disney series ''{{Bonkers}}'' is similar to ''Who Framed Roger Rabbit?'', treating cartoon characters as actors. The titular bobcat is a washed-up cartoon star working as a cop in the "real world". If you're wondering how they pulled that off in pure animation, "Real" things and people were [[RealIsBrown painted in a shade darker]] than "Toon" people and objects, as well as having a much more subdued range of motion and especially reaction.

* {{Hatsune Miku}} did this during her during her "live-action" concert in Los Angeles, I think it was. 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!

[[caption-width:300:[[BlatantLies There is one Toon in this image...]]]]

* Consider the mere existence of a ''PiratesOfTheCaribbean'' world in ''KingdomHearts II''. 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.
** Yeah, it's even {{Lampshaded}}. The protagonists are baffled upon landing on Port Royal and immediately comment that the world looks different (Never mind the fact that the preceding world was a {{Retraux}} ArtShift to late-20's/early-30's Disney shorts which they also commented, and [[TheNightmareBeforeChristmas one of the two followings worlds]] sees a subtly more photorealistic ArtShift which doesn't get commented on.).
*** In Donald and Goofy's defense, however, they used to live in "Timeless River", which eventually became "Disney Town" and "Disney Castle". They would be rather used to bright and colorful cartoon worlds, such as Wonderland, Deep Jungle, and the like. Halloween Town would only appear slightly different to them, sort of a blend of their cartoon worlds, with a dash of realism. Port Royal would be like walking on the moon, or a planet inhabited by robots or something, they wouldn't be used to the harsh realism of it. Meanwhile, Sora should be flipping out with each new world they go to, with the exception of Port Royal. Destiny Islands isn't exactly Cartoon Character Magnetized.
*** Although, considering they went to Halloweentown in [[KingdomHearts the first game]] they would be more likely to bring back memories of last time and wouldn't be that shocked at all.
*** Sora & co undergo the same shift as the world itself in all the ArtShift worlds ''but'' Port Royal (possibly lampshading the fact it's the only live action world and so the one animated characters can't adapt to), which is obviously why Port Royal is the only place where they'd notice they look out of place.

* MaxAndDaveFleischer's ''Out of the Inkwell'' shorts. This and the ''Alice'' comedies are especially notable for being one of the first attempts at playing around with animation.

* Disney used this for decades, starting with the "Alice" series, which started in 1923, and kept right on going through the eternally un-re-released ''SongOfTheSouth'', ''MaryPoppins'', and ''BedknobsAndBroomsticks'', to 1977's [=~Pete's Dragon~=]. They're still using it today.

* RalphBakshi's ''Heavy Traffic'' and ''CoolWorld''. The latter gave this trope its alternate title, NoidsAndDoodles.

* In ''{{Fantasia}}'', Mickey Mouse. shakes hands with Leopold Stokowski. In the sequel ''Fantasia 2000'', Mickey hops right across from Stokowski and talks to James Levine, adjusting his outfit.

* ''YuGiOh!'' and Pegasus' Toon cards. In this case, of course, the outer world is already animated, but the Toon cards are based on Warner Bros.-style American animation rather than Japanese animation.
** And of course, {{Yu-Gi-Oh The Abridged Series}} references this:

* Disney used this for decades, starting with the "Alice" series, which started in 1923, and kept right on going through the eternally un-re-released ''SongOfTheSouth'', MaryPoppins, and Bedknobs And Broomsticks, to 1977's PetesDragon. They're still using it today.

* Disney used this for decades, starting with the "Alice" series, which started in 1923, and kept right on going through the eternally un-re-released ''SongOfTheSouth'', MaryPoppins, and Bedknobs And Broomsticks, to 1977's Pete'sDragon. They're still using it today.

* Many of {{Tex Avery}}'s cartoons used live action. "TV of Tomorrow" has live action for all the televised images. "Who Dood It?" starts with an onscreen presenter introducing a murder mystery, and in the end the murderer is unmasked and revealed to be [[spoiler:the very same presenter]]. "Señor Droopy" ends with Droopy sitting on the lap of '50s actress Lina Romay.

** For the live action intro, Injun Joe was played by Lurch from the Adams Family.

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A special effect intended to show live-action, flesh-and-blood performers interacting with animated characters within the context of a work of fiction. If the story is a [[ComedyTropes comedy]], and it usually is, the characters tend to be GenreSavvy and recognize each other as belonging to either category. This is one of the oldest special effects in Hollywood (the 1914 animated film, ''Gertie the Dinosaur'', actually had creator {{Winsor McCay}} 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 perfected by the 1988 Disney / Amblin film, ''WhoFramedRogerRabbit''.

* Some may agree that ''The Many Adventures of WinnieThePooh'' and TheTiggerMovie would apply here. Both of them open in Christopher Robin's bedroom, and tour the young boy's room, looking over all the toys and stuffed animals, before approaching the book, while the narrator...er...[[SoYeah Narrates]].

** Sort of an odd case. In ''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 [[StarFox Fox]]. [[SoYeah Go figure.]]