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* ''Anime/HimeChenOtogiChikkuIdolLilpri'''s second opening and ending sequences feature the live-action singers with the animated characters whom they represent. The show's replacement, the ''[[Franchise/PrettyRhythm Pretty Series]]'', also does this.

* The ''ABC Weekend Special'' TV adaptations of the ''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).

** 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 ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' and ''WesternAnimation/RockyAndBullwinkle''. In these commercials, the Bunny faced off against [[WesternAnimation/WileECoyoteAndTheRoadRunner Wile E. Coyote]] and [[ThoseTwoBadGuys Boris and Natasha]], respectively.

** The more cartoonish 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 characters. The modern [[{{Anime}} anime]] style used for the Square characters clashes with the [[WesternAnimation western style]] of the Disney characters.

A subtrope of MediumBlending, and an extended version of {{Rotoscoping}}. Compare and contrast SerkisFolk and StarringSpecialEffects.

* Lizzie's animated alternate ego in ''WesternAnimation/LizzieMcGuire''.

* Infrequently done for comic effect on ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'' when the characters go on land. In one episode, they were all portrayed as [[StylisticSuck crude puppets]]. In ''[=The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie=]'', part of the climax even involves [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick receiving help from an AdamWesting Creator/DavidHasselhoff. Recently, in the 20th anniversary special, SpongeBob and Patrick travel on land for a sight-seeing tour.

* Infrequently done for comic effect on ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'' when the characters go on land. In one episode, they were all portrayed as [[StylisticSuck crude puppets]]. In ''[=The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie=]'', part of the climax even involves [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick receiving help from an AdamWesting Creator/DavidHasselhoff.

* Disney's ''WesternAnimation/AliceComedies''.

* Music/{{Gorillaz}} occasionally interact with live-action performers; during a concert, their computerised selves performed alongside Madonna. 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.

->''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.''

* The 1991 short ''WesternAnimation/{{Manipulation}}'', inspired by the classic ''WesternAnimation/DuckAmuck'', features the hands of an animator, shown in live-action, manipulating the cartoon man on his page. At the end of the cartoon the animator throws the drawing in the garbage, only for the cartoon man to crawl out of the garbage can.

* 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 [[ImagineSpot Imagine Spots]] and [[DreamSequence Dream Sequences]].

** Played straight with The Grid, which was based on ''Film/TronLegacy'', which appears in ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsDreamDropDistance''. 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.

* ''WebVideo/CLWEntertainment'': The ''Anime/{{Doraemon}}'' fandub announcement [[https://youtu.be/ySEfqD4HB7Q "Just Finished a HUGE Episode of Doraemon!!"]] has an animated clip of Fenneko from ''Anime/AggressiveRetsuko'' layered on top of live-action footage of Collin.

* 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".