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* Consider the mere existence of a ''Franchise/PiratesOfTheCaribbean'' world, called Port Royal in ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsII''. 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.
** 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]].

* Some of the ''VideoGame/GarrysMod'' animations that have realistic characters interacting with cartoonish characters (i.e. ''VideoGame/Left4Dead'' characters interacting with ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'' characters) could count as this.

* 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, [[WesternAnimation/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 [[http://maxtaroisheretoo.tumblr.com/post/79006596218 are sometimes shown sitting in the audience]]. If those weren't enough, WesternAnimation/DonaldDuck ''co-hosted'' the 1957 ceremony!

* 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'' [[UncannyValley bad]]), [[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons Simpsons-style]], and even anime(and that's just the background extras!). The "cartoon" characters are actually 3D rendered with CelShading.

* The video for Music/PeterGabriel's "Sledgehammer" 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]].

* The 2022 ''Film/ChipNDaleRescueRangers'' movie borrows the idea of cartoon characters being actors from ''Roger Rabbit'' and takes it to the PresentDay, with various art styles from classic Disney to CGI (both good ''and'' [[UncannyValley bad]]), [[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons Simpsons-style]], and even anime(and that's just the background extras!). The "cartoon" characters are actually 3D rendered with CelShading.

* 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 MickeyMouse. [[Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit Roger Rabbit]] and [[WesternAnimation/{{Fantasia}} a few others]] also appear.

* ''Film/SonOfThePinkPanther'' opens with [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LR5LA-8m3nE such a sequence]], and several of the other films in the series end with one.

** Bugs Bunny and Tweety Bird had cameos in the live-action film ''My Dream Is Yours''

-->-- Creator/RogerEbert, in his [[http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/who-framed-roger-rabbit-1988 review]] of ''Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit''

* WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls once made an animated appearance on ''Donny & Marie'' (the late 90's Fox talkshow, obviously, [[NamesTheSame 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.

* ''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. Sadly out of print, these books are hard to get a hold of, but one of the short stories is available for free [[http://garywolf.com/ at Mr. Wolf's website.]] Interestingly, 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.

* As ''WesternAnimation/GertieTheDinosaur'' was originally a ''vaudeville'' act with a man performing ''live on stage'' with a cartoon character, it fits here. Let [[Wiki/{{Wikipedia}} The Other Wiki]] [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gertie_the_dinosaur explain]]:

* ''[[Machinima/Supermarioglitchy4sSuperMario64Bloopers SMG4]]'': 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]].]]

* The ''Machinima/RedVsBlue'' 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.
** For a canon case instead of [[Machinima/RedVsBlueSeason14 an anthology episode]], Season 16's "It Just Winked at Me" had a cyclops portrayed by RT co-founder Gus Sorola being sent to battle the animated[=/=]{{machinima}}ted characters.

* Some would say that ''Film/{{Tron}}'' fits this as well.

* The Italian AffectionateParody ''Allegro Non Troppo'' features more interaction with the cartoon characters, who periodically disrupt the live-action.

* Music/TheRollingStones' "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.

* The 2022 ''Film/ChipNDaleRescueRangers'' movie borrows the idea of cartoon characters being actors from ''Roger Rabbit'' and takes it to the PresentDay, although the "cartoon" characters are actually 3D rendered with CelShading.

->''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.''

** ''Film/TomAndJerry2021'' uses stylized CGI animation for the titular duo and all other animal characters. However, it's finished to look and feel like the classic 2D art style and animation of the original cartoons as much as possible.

* ''Film/TheAdventuresOfRockyAndBullwinkle'' did this, with the title characters animated (but only rendered in cel-shaded CG) and nearly everyone else portrayed by live actors. 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.)

* ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry'' examples:
** ''Film/AnchorsAweigh'' features a dance number with Creator/GeneKelly and [[WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry Jerry]].
** Both Tom and Jerry also appeared with Esther Williams in a DreamSequence from ''Dangerous When Wet''.
** ''Film/TomAndJerry2021'' uses stylized CGI animation for the title duo and all other animal characters, but finished to look and feel like the classic 2D style and animation of the original cartoons as much as possible.
* 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]].

* ''Film/AnchorsAweigh'' features a dance number with Creator/GeneKelly and [[WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry Jerry]].
* Both Tom and Jerry also appeared with Esther Williams in a DreamSequence from ''Dangerous When Wet''.

* The live-action ''Film/TomAndJerry2021'' uses CGI for the title duo and all other animal characters, using CelShading to resemble the original cartoons as much as possible.

* 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 ([[ContemptibleCover ridiculous-looking]]) cover features a cartoon of the Doctor, so it's not clear exactly what is going on.

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* ''Franchise/TheMuppets at Walt Disney World'' 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.