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{{trope}}
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Scene in animation or print where the art suddenly and intentionally shifts into a different style, usually for homage or parody purposes. Frequently occurs [[Flashback Effects|during flashbacks]], particularly [[Rashomon Style]] sequences. Particularly abrupt shifts can be [[Nightmare Fuel|rather scary]].
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Anime uses this extensively in gags where [[The Take]] is a homage to a particular famous manga artist.
Not to be confused with instances where the art ''unintentionally'' changes as a result of, for instance, the animation being subcontracted to several different studios. For this, see [[Off-Model]]. Neither should it be confused with cases where the style changes because two or more unrelated anime have been stitched together by an American
Also should not be confused with [[Art Evolution]], which is a gradual and more permanent art change over time as the artist gets the hang of drawing the series.
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Can overlap with [[Show Within a Show]], [[Deep-Immersion Gaming]], [[Disneyesque]] and [[Super-Deformed]].
Compare [[Non
See also [[Stylistic Suck]], a phenomenon used to visually distinguish a show-within-a-show from the work that uses it.
{{examples}}
▲== Anime & Manga ==
* Many scenes in anime (especially [[Gag Series]]) involving fighting will often make a visual reference to ''[[Fist of the North Star]]''.
* This happens many times in ''[[Excel Saga (
** And then there are the Puchuus, who suddenly change from [[Ridiculously Cute Critter]] to something ''[[Golgo 13]]''-esque when you kill them. The also utter something mean-spirited/action-movie-ish when it happens (reflecting their true, evil nature). Sometimes it happens without them being killed, if the gag demands the nasty phrase (e.g. in a scene parodying the survival action-movie fad from [[The Nineties]], {{spoiler|a Puchuu cuts Excel's rope and spits out, "Burn in hell."}}).
* Repeatedly occurs in ''[[
* Done in episode 5 of ''[[FLCL]]''. When it flashes back to Amarao asking for a "manly" haircut in a hair salon, it's done in the same animation style as ''[[South Park]]''. There's also "manga sequences" in episodes 1 and 6, during which the standard animation style is replaced by pans across (semi-animated, with voice-overs for the dialogue) manga pages. This was incredibly hard to animate, and the second one is brought to an abrupt end by Kamon, who [[No Fourth Wall|breaks the fourth wall]] to point out "Why can't we be a normal anime!? The animators asked us not to do another manga scene."
** There's also the grayscale style used for collisions, which comes up a few times.
** There's also the scene in episode 2 where Haruka, Mamimi and Naota are all talking and the animation style has suddently changes to a more abstract style. As soon as Canti comes back though, the art goes back to normal.
* Similarly used but played straight in ''[[Bleach]]'', during the climax of the duel between Ichigo and Ikkaku, the sequence suddenly turns into the manga page.
* Similar to ''[[Excel Saga (
* When Haruhi and Kyon are trying to solve a murder in ''[[Suzumiya Haruhi]]'', their suppositions are
** Also, in the gag series ''[[Haruhi
* In ''[[Trigun]]''
* ''[[
* Some parodies of ''[[Initial D]]'' go the extra distance and reproduce cars with [[Conspicuous CG]]. Though to be fair, ''Initial D First Stage'''s computer animation isn't too great either.
* When Saki in ''[[Genshiken]]'' gets really, really, angry or emotional, she becomes crudely animated, often with triangle-teeth, somewhat oversized head, jerky movements, and pupil-less eyes.
** Also, the episode where she and Madarame are in the clubroom together. Madarame goes through the possible scenarios of telling her there's a loose nosehair coming out of her nose, and the art style frequently shifts to look either more like a visual novel or more like [[Kujibiki Unbalance]] when these scenarios play out in his head.
** And Ogiue's [[Yaoi]] fantasy episode with the guys Art Shifted to [[Bishonen]].
* ''[[
** Having a [[Non
* Nagasumi of ''[[Seto no Hanayome]]'' is especially fond of doing this, turning from [[Ordinary High School Student]] to musclebound icon of manliness whenever his fighting spirit kicks in (see page picture above).
** This is most likely a visual [[Shout-Out]] to ''[[
** Hell, ''everybody'' in this show does this, all the time. It's rare to go more than a few minutes without a completely different animation style popping up.
* Sakura in ''[[Bludgeoning Angel
* ''[[Minami-ke]]'' loves switching from its normal style to ''[[Bible Black (anime)|Bible Black]]''-esque art during close-ups on character's faces. It is... somewhat disturbing. Probably intentionally.
** The last episode of the second season contains a series of stills showing an intimate moment between the sisters, done in the style of the ''previous'' season, which had been produced by a different company. The background music also switches to the first season's [[Anime Theme Song|opening theme]], which creates a nostalgic mood.
* Episode 7 of ''Zoku [[Sayonara, Zetsubou
** Another segment in the same episode is completely dedicated to this trope, with the art constantly shifting to styles such as silhouette animation and [[Claymation]], finally climaxing with an actual video of a pair of hands flipping through a flipbook.
** The first segment of the second episode of ''Goku Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei'' is done in the author's original drawing style. The third segment is animated in a shoujo style.
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** Due to having a guest director, the entirety of episode 4 is either [[Off-Model]] or an extended Art Shift.
** In his first appearance, the Spiral King Lordgenome is uniquely drawn in a rough, sketchy style {{spoiler|perhaps as a reference to the style used whenever Kamina and Simon are passionate}}.
** The [[Eyecatch
** When {{spoiler|Kamina dies}}, the moment is shown in a white/light blue sketchy style, as a homage to the iconic final shot of ''[[Ashita no Joe]].''
* Ichigo in ''[[Tokyo Mew Mew]]'' thinks in chibis. Also, later in the series, the art style evolves so that everyone older than Ichigo, even by one year, looks obviously ''older''.
* ''[[Jubei-chan]]'' does this constantly, to the point where you'll have several characters in the same scene drawn in completely different styles.
* One episode of ''[[Kirby:
** Becomes extremely noticeable with some of the characters (especially King Dedede), where sometimes they're hand-drawn, while other times they're CGI.
* ''[[Crayon Shin
* This happens to Tamaki in the 19th episode of ''[[Ouran High School Host Club]]'' where a closeup of his face is in a heavily-shaded ''[[Fist of the North Star]]''-esque style. A sign even pops up to indicate that he's Tamaki for any confused viewers.
* In ''[[Doctor Slump]]'', Senbei Norimaki often changes from a fat, short, ugly man into a tall, handsome, muscular one... and then back in a matter of seconds. "He's like [[Ultraman]]... kinda."
* In ''[[Samurai Champloo]]'''s eleventh episode, Gamblers and Gallantry, Shino, the woman with whom Jin falls in love, is drawn in [[Hayao Miyazaki]]'s style in the beginning and in the end, but not in the middle when she works in the brothel. Why? You guess...
* ''[[Petite Princess Yucie]]'' is generally quite fluidly animated, which only mild occurrences of [[Super-Deformed|super deformity]]. Some episodes are suddenly very cartoony though, with over-the-top slapstick effects all over the place. Whether this is done deliberately or out of budget reasons is not clear.
* In ''[[Sket Dance]]'', the art style changes to old-school shoujo whenever [[Wrong Genre Savvy|Saotome Roman]] turns on her Otome Vision.
* ''[[
** The art style shifts about in more subtle ways throughout the series, complementing the characters' delusions and breakdowns.
* Washizu Vision and Tsubasa Vision in ''[[Asu no Yoichi]]!''. The first one brings out the [[Bishie Sparkle]] and the [[Love Bubbles]] on Ibuki and turns Yoichi into an evil stick figure, while the second one depicts Washizu in a flowery shoujo manga style.
* ''[[Higurashi no Naku Koro
** {{spoiler|Actually this was a new world. As proven by Ooishi telling Rika that Takano and Miyo recently died. He already told Rena that.}}
** The manga also uses an Art Shift to a style evocative of ancient Japanese artwork when describing the [[Town
* In ''[[Saikano]]'', the art frequently shifts to [[Super-Deformed]] when Chise and Shuji are talking with their friends, especially when Chise gets embarrassed or Shuji gets mad.
* The first ''[[
* ''[[K-On!]]''{{'}}s manga had [https://web.archive.org/web/20090514031012/http://www.mangafox.com/manga/k_on/v02/c006/7.html one] made out of [[Nightmare Fuel]]
* In the anime of ''[[
** The manga and anime both have France occasionally shifting to a 1970s shojo look. While in the comic itself, America was once shown in New York-style doodles. And that's not counting the chibis...
* The opening scene of ''[[Project
* The ''[[Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle]]'' anime had almost an entire episode with Syaoran, Sakura, Fay, and Kurogane all drawn in chibified forms. A few other characters they met on their travels also showed up in the episode as chibis. The
* ''Chibi Maruko-chan'' has an episode where Maruko gets a stomach ache (it later turns out to be appendicitis). However, despite her moanings and groanings no one will take her to the doctor thinking it's a simple stomach ache (they don't realise it's appendicitis until later). This prompts Maruko to wonder why she can't pull a look on her face to resemble extreme pain. As this happens we momentarily shift from the style of animation normally used to one normally used in anime where we see Maruko drawn in regular anime style.
* ''[[
** They happen so often that it's almost like the series doesn't even have a "normal" art style.
* Happens often in ''[[Ninin ga Shinobuden]]''. Especially Onsokumaru, who rarely goes for more than a minute or two before changing art styles.
** The second half of episode 9 was done in a completely different art style, but with more subtlety (Compare the eyes, chin, and hair of Shinobu with the first half of the episode). It was probably done to see if anyone noticed.
*** Ironically, Onsokumaru looks the same in both renditions.
* In episode 3 of ''[[
** Later, in episode 6, the backdrops for the scenes where Light is lying to Naomi Misora are almost photorealistic, in a clear divergence from the usual style.
* In ''[[
* ''[[White Album]]'' uses art-shifts extensively, occasionally shifting into a style reminiscent of a pastel painting.
* In ''[[Change 123]]'', in which the characters are generally drawn very realistically (at least from the neck downwards), various chibi versions of the main female character are used throughout the series to indicate certain visible moods of hers, but always with a sense of good measure, varying the degree of chibiness. Also, sometimes the artist uses a different line style (a soft pencil style or a charcoal style) to indicate various internal emotional states of characters.
* ''[[Ode to Kirihito]]'' by [[Osamu Tezuka]] uses an art shift to denote a character's descent into madness.
* ''[[Hidamari Sketch]]'', following the lives of several art students, appropriately throws in numerous brief scenes that use a wide variety of different art styles. Yuno's daydream during an art history class starts imitating the painting styles they are being taught about (Fauvism and Cubism); watercolour-style art is occasionally used in particularly emotional scenes; other scenes use imitations of collage, silhouette, pencil sketches and a variety of other media.
* In ''[[Monster (
* In ''[[
* Used profusely in ''[[
* Usumaru Furuya's surreal [[No Fourth Wall|Fourth Wall-less]], [[Genre Savvy|genre-hopping]] gag manga ''Short Cuts'' does this a great deal.
* ''[[The Tower of Druaga (
* Happens several times in ''[[Arakawa Under the Bridge]]''. Oddly enough one was referring to a [[The Simpsons (
* In a very brief moment in ''[[Baccano
* Makoto of the ''[[Futari Ecchi]]'' manga whenever he feels "desperate" in having sex.
* Happens often in ''[[SEX]]'' whose art fluctuates between normal "manga" and realistic styles as a [[Rule of Cool]] effect.
* The anime anthologies ''[[Batman Gotham Knight]]'', ''[[
* In ''[[Berserk]]'', elves, Puck especially, seem to exist in their own personal Art Shift dimension, appearing as chibi more often than not. [[Bratty Half-Pint]] Isidro gets his fair share of super-deformed moments as well.
* ''[[Panty
* In ''[[Nurarihyon no Mago]]'', the artwork changes into Sumi-e style whenever yokai characters release their powers.
* In ''[[Kochikame]]'', Honda is a shy, weakling motorcycle patrol officer, but when gets on a motorcycle or anything alike, he transform into a mean tough motorcyclist.
* Basically anything involving the [[Monster of the Week|witches]] in ''[[
* This trope is somewhat [[Enforced]] within ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion]]'', in that in the last two episodes, [[Studio Gainax]] ran out of money, and so had no choice but to include Art Shifts to crayon and Copic drawings where they couldn't have animation, i.e. storyboards. This can go on for minutes at a time. Thankfully, they did it well enough that it can be passed off as [[Artistic Licence]].
* In the OAV ''Green vs Red'', the final showdown between Red Jacket and Green Jacket [[Lupin III|Lupin]] is animated in the style of Monkey Punch's original manga, just one of many homages to Lupin's 40 years old history scattered through the film.
* In ''[[
* ''[[Macademi Wasshoi]]'' parodies ''[[Kaiji]]'' at one point, and the art style momentarily changes to emphasize this.
* In ''[[The Idolmaster (
* In ''[[
* Frequently used as a visual gag in ''Lotte no Omocha'', as well as when Naoya tries to draw, or when Asuha is being particularly crafty.
* In ''[[The Tale of the Princess Kaguya]]'', the art becomes much more sketchy and rough when [[The Protagonist]] Princess Kaguya runs away from the mansion, and becomes much colder and more focused in the scenes following. This contrasts with its usual playful, minimalistic style.
== Comic Books ==
== Comics ==▼
* In ''[[Calvin and Hobbes]]'', Calvin's fantasy sequences were often drawn in a very realistic and detailed style, unlike the rest of the comic strip. This led, quite intentionally, to the effect of fantasy looking more realistic than reality. ▼
** Similarly, Suzie Derkins's fantasies (seen on the rare occasions that Calvin plays with her) are illustrated in the style of a soap opera comic strip. One excerpt from Calvin's comic book collection is shown in a similar style.▼
* This ''[[Mad (Magazine)|Mad Magazine]]'' parody of the classic comic ''[[Bringing Up Father]]'', pictured [http://pics.livejournal.com/dr_hermes/pic/000e3gaw/s640x480 here] and [http://pics.livejournal.com/dr_hermes/pic/000e2ezx/s640x480 here] (courtesy of [http://therainer.blogspot.com/2008_11_01_archive.html here]).▼
* The comic ''[[Spider-Man Loves Mary Jane]]'' uses the art shift a couple of times, both times it is used to indicate a character is flashing back.
* The first issue of the ''[[Super Mario Bros.|Super Mario Adventures]]'' comic (it ran in Nintendo Power during the 1990s) featured a scene where the plumbing in Peach's castle goes
** [http://yoshi.2yr.net/images/comics/YA_SMA01.pdf Link here.]{{Dead link}}
* The comic book version of ''Archie: To Riverdale and Back Again'' uses this to differentiate between the familiar version of the [[Archie]] characters (who are done in the usual art style and seen through flashback) and the older version (drawn by Gene Colan).
* Also done in ''[[Archie Comics]]'' style is ''[[
* Most of ''[[Transformers|Spotlight: Kup]]'' is drawn in a scratchy style to represent Kup's deteriorating mental state. The art shifts to a cleaner style when the point of view shifts to {{spoiler|Springer and his rescue mission}}, and both styles are used together when the two plots converge.
* The ''[[Superman]]'' [[Alternate Continuity]] miniseries ''[[Superman: Secret Identity]]'' culminates with "real-life" Superman {{spoiler|and his daughters}} flying across the sky, then suddenly shifting into various Golden Age, Silver Age, and even [[DCAU|Timmverse]] art styles that progress through the panels, in a loving homage to the character and the many artists who have drawn him through the ages.
* If [[Fred Hembeck]] appears in your comic, it is a fact that he will appear as drawn by the man himself in that signature goofy style of his, no matter how much it might clash with the style of the rest of the characters.
* In the [[Alan Moore]] run of ''[[Supreme]]'', the story became involved with the history of comic books and comic tropes. When Supreme flashbacked to the 1950s, he entered into [[EC Comics]] artwork, first from their horror and SF comics and finally from [[Mad Magazine]]. In the lens of Mad, Supreme transforms into something very similar to their old parody, "[[Super Duper Man]]".
** This is a favorite storytelling style for Alan Moore. In ''[[
* ''[[Stormwatch]]'' had an issue where Jenny Sparks relates her historical adventures in the style of the cartoons from those periods. This includes duplicating the look of [[The Spirit]], [[Dan Dare]] and [[Watchmen (
* [[Brian Bendis]] loves this trope:
** Flashbacks in ''[[Alias (Comic Book)|Alias]]'' and ''New Avengers'', and scenes after time travel in ''Mighty Avengers'' that are set somewhere in the sixties or seventies are
**
** In ''[[Dark Avengers]]'', scenes in [[Norman Osborn]]'s mind are drawn by a completly different artist.
* In the [[DC Comics]] [[
* The [[Post-Crisis]] reboot of ''[[Plastic Man]]'' was drawn in the style of his old 40's-era
** His guest spots in ''Superman'' and ''Power of Shazam'' both featured a couple of scenes drawn from his viewpoint.
* In the early episodes of ''[[Buddy Longway]]'' the otherwise realistically drawn characters have [[Orphan Annie]] style white ovals for eyes. Later on they get more realistic, but when Buddy tells his kids a story from his bachelor days, the characters in the flashback have white ovals for eyes again.
* The final pages of the ''[[Mad Magazine|MAD]]'' parody comic "Mickey Rodent" shifted (with considerable [[Lampshade Hanging]]) to a less cartoony style with realistic shading, shadows and [[Four-Fingered Hands|five-fingered hands]].
* ''[[Amelia Rules!]]'' is drawn in the style of ''[[Peanuts]]'' for when Tanner and Mary were kids, of ''Archie'' for when they were teenagers, and so on.
* ''[[Desolation Jones]]'' often switches styles, from paintings to sketches, black and white inks, two-tone chiaroscuro, and the standard inks and coloring, though it maintains a similar feel throughout.
* During the middle of the Marispan affair (or the beginning of the Bet Your Life arc) in ''[[Spy Boy]]'', the art changes from anime-style to something out of Mike Mignola's mind and back again.
* In ''[[Journal Comic|Dirty Laundry,]]'' [[Robert Crumb]] and his wife Aline Kominsky-Crumb each draw themselves in the comic. At one point when debating what Aline sees as her lack of drawing skill, R. Crumb draws her to [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming|show how beautiful she looks to him.]]
* ''[[
* In "Hounded" in ''[[Knights of the Dinner Table]]'' #183, Sara has a dream about the Untouchable Trio Plus One. The dream is illustrated using art from ''Knights of the Dinner Table: Illustrated'' by the Fraim Brothers.
== Film ==
* In the CGI ''[[Horton Hears a Who!]]'' an entire sequence narrated by Horton is done in the style of a colorful anime. The producers explain that this was simply for the entertainment of the children watching.▼
▲* In the CGI ''[[Horton Hears a Who]]'' an entire sequence narrated by Horton is done in the style of a colorful anime. The producers explain that this was simply for the entertainment of the children watching.
* [[El Arca]] has this, though whether or not it's intentional is debatable- The art noticeably shifts depending on how many characters are in a scene. In a scene with only one or two, or even a small handful, the art is of quality comparable to Disney. However, in scenes with many characters present, like when Kairel is trying to get everyone organized right after they get on the Ark, and Xiro completely ruins her efforts, the designs quickly become comparable to a toddler's scribbling.
** An example that was clearly on purpose would be when the Villain describes his future plan for the prey animals, and visualizes what it will be like.
* ''[[WALL-E]]'': During the credits, {{spoiler|the art goes from simplistic cave paintings up through the history of art. It's implied that this is humanity slowly regaining its artistic ability as they readjust to life on Earth.}}
** Not only that, the video message of the President is live action footage of a real human being, so {{spoiler|the implication may be that humanity became "animated" as we essentially de-evolved.}}
* Utilised in ''[[
* ''[[The Prince of Egypt]]'' features a dream sequence that plays out in the form of an animated mural, drawn in the exact style used by ancient Egyptian painters.
* The film version of ''[[Watership Down]]'' begins in a simplistic, limited-animation style while explaining the legend of El-ahrairah, but then shifts to [[Scenery Porn|lush, photorealistic animation of the English countryside]] for the rest of the movie.
* In ''[[The Princess and
* In the [[Studio Ghibli]] film ''[[Pom Poko]]'', the ''tanuki'' shift from realistic to [[Funny Animal]] to [[Super-Deformed]].
* The entire point of [[Osamu Tezuka]]'s short film ''Legends of the Forest'' (along with a [[Green Aesop]]). It shows the long, epic story of a forest's slow cannibalization by humans, showing the passage of time by shifting through the different styles of animation. It starts out by panning across realistic-looking woodcuts, moves into an early, B&W Disney style, and then turns to color, [[Termite Terrace]] influenced style, and then into a more lush, ''[[Cinderella (Disney film)|Cinderella]]'' style, and finally into something similiar to ''[[Fantasia]]''.
** MW uses art shifts, often as tribute to classical works. And then there's a chase scene, where a still cartoony looking [[Reused Character Design|Shunsaku Ban]] is being chased down by a grotesquely realistic attack dog.
* Used all over the place in ''[[
* The song "I Just Can't Wait to be King" from ''[[The Lion King]]'' featured stylized character designs and backgrounds based on traditional African fabric patterns.
* The story in the middle of ''[[
* ''[[
* A dream sequence seen about halfway through the song "A Girl Worth Fighting For" from ''[[
* "The Backson Song" in ''[[Winnie the Pooh (
* During the stretch of Spike Lee's ''Crooklyn'' that takes place away from Brooklyn in rural Virginia, the image is horizontally squashed, leaving everything looking freakishly tall and skinny. Those scenes were filmed in widescreen but with anamorphic correction deliberately left unapplied.
* Quentin Tarantino's ''[[Kill Bill]]'' Vol. 1 & 2 also feature this. A sword fight is completely done in silhouettes, the begining of Vol. 2 starts in black and white and O-Ren's backstory is [[Medium Blending|completely anime]].
** The anime sequence is justified, seeing as portraying incest and rape of a child in live-action would have almost guaranteed an NC-17 rating.
* The stop-motion animated musical dream sequence with dancing hamburgers in ''Better Off Dead''. Yes, the whole movie is cartoonish, but otherwise as realistic as 80ies teenage comedies go.
* In the movie version of [[The
* In ''[[Harry Potter
* ''[[Melancholia]]'': The opening montage is shot in a completely different style than the rest of the film.
* ''[[The Wizard of Oz]]'' may be one of the earliest and most in your face uses of this trope in film. The switch from the sepia tones of Dorothy's Kansas to the technicolor world of Oz is almost jarring.
== Literature ==
* Mervyn Grant illustrates ''[[
* Used in ''[[
* [[David Macaulay]] won a Caldecott medal for his picture book ''Black And White,'' which tells four overlapping stories simultaneously, [[Everything's Better
* In [[David Weisner]]'s picture book retelling of [[Three Little Pigs|The Three Pigs]], the pigs realize partway through the story that they can escape their book and visit characters in other stories, all of which are illustrated in different styles. This one also received a Caldecott medal.
== Live-Action TV ==
* An odd live-action one occurs in the final TV movie of ''[[Saved
* Going the other way, the ''[[Scrubs]]'' episode "My Life in Four Cameras" had J.D. musing on the concept of life as a sitcom being able to solve problems, which turns the normally naturalistic filming style of the show into a garish, brightly lit set with a laugh track, a silly plot about a talent show and all the female cast members in overly sexualized outfits, before revealing that {{spoiler|it was just wishful thinking, and the problems posed in the episode (a man discovers he has terminal cancer; budget cuts force a loved employee to be fired) have depressingly real consequences.}}
* In the famous ''[[Stargate SG-1]]'' episode "Heroes", the interviews filmed by reporter Emmett Bregman are done either using different equipment or different film, and as a result look distinct from the rest of the show. The show usually has more of a "cinematic" feel compared to the more "live TV" feel of Bregman's footage.
* ''[[House (TV series)|House]]'' does things like this a lot. The episode with the father and daughter with nearly no emotional reactions is done with a blue filter until they get cured. When House has insomnia all scenes with him in have a bloom effect, etc.
** Many of cold open scenes in ''House'' are directed in the distinct style of a different kind of series or show, so much that they may confuse a less savvy viewer.
** The season 5 episode in which {{spoiler|Kutner dies}} has strangely subdued lighting throughout, presumably to emphasize its [[Very Special Episode|serious tone]].
* ''[[M*A*S*H (
* ''[[
** In Season 4, Jeff and Shirley engage in a game of table football which is shown in anime. There's no real explanation - it appears to be for no reason other than the fact that they couldn't think of a better way to make table football suitably dramatic.
*** More likely Harmon was playing on the fact that anime tends to contain a lot of [[Mundane Made Awesome]].
* In a rather unexpected example, we have [[Fringe]] where in the episode LSD, {{spoiler|in Olivia's mind it suddenly changes to a cell-shaded/cartoony style when Walter and Bishop enter Bell's Room}}. Apparently they couldn't get Leonard Nimoy to appear in person so they had to use this.
** "Walter: Bellie, why are you a cartoon?"
* ''[[Stargate Atlantis]]'', Season 5 ep 19 "Vegas" has an alternate universe Shepard in a CSI-like cop show, complete with recurring camera-zoom-in to a close-up of the evidence he's talking about at the moment. The crime he's investigating turns out to have been committed by a Wraith who is on a covert mission on earth.
* ''[[
* ''[[Hustle]]'' does this for certain exposition scenes. A description of a very old con trick is done via a B&W silent movie, and an explanation of fugu fish preperation is done via anime.
* ''Eureka'' used this in their latest (Christmas) episode. A machine in town malfunctioned and turned everyone into various animated styles. They used everything from Peanuts to claymation.
▲== Newspaper Comics ==
▲* In ''[[Calvin and Hobbes]]'', Calvin's fantasy sequences were often drawn in a very realistic and detailed style, unlike the rest of the comic strip. This led, quite intentionally, to the effect of fantasy looking more realistic than reality.
▲** Similarly, Suzie Derkins's fantasies (seen on the rare occasions that Calvin plays with her) are illustrated in the style of a soap opera comic strip. One excerpt from Calvin's comic book collection is shown in a similar style.
▲* This ''[[Mad
== Video Games ==
* Zero's art changed so radically from ''[[
** ''Zero 3'' {{spoiler|answered it in a rather confusing manner.}}
*** To be precise about it, {{spoiler|it's revealed that Zero's body in the ''Zero'' series is a completely new body. When you fight the final boss, Omega, his final form is Zero's original body. Which wouldn't be so confusing, except Zero's "original" body looks just like his new one!}}
** The ''Zero'' and ''[[Mega Man ZX
*** Both the ''Zero'' and ''ZX'' character designs were done by Toru Nakayama. The original and ''X'' series was still done by Keiji Inafune.
**** Keiji Inafune only handled the character designs for Mega Man 1-6, 9, 10 and X 1-3. Hayato Kaji was responsible for 7 while Shinsuke Komaki worked on 8. Haruki Suetsugu for X4-X6 and Tatsuya Yoshikawa for X7 and X8. Inafune more or less draws the same as he did in the Famicom era.
* In [[Final Fantasy IV:
* The developers of ''[[
* ''[[Crash Bandicoot|Crash]]: Mind Over Mutant'' enjoys abusing Art Shift for its animated [[Full Motion Video|FMV]]s for no apparent reason other than to amplify its wackiness. Across the 17 such scenes, there are ''twelve'' art styles used in total!
** These styles include: Shadow puppet cutouts, hand puppets, old frame animation akin to the old Marvel shows, somewhat abstract yet technological-looking, more streamlined and flash-like animation, chinese and [[Super-Deformed|SD-like]] animation, ''[[South Park]]''-ish construction paper cutouts and an anime style akin to ''[[Dragonball Z]]''.
* In ''[[Metal Gear Solid]] 4'', Snake dozes off on his way to a location and has a dream. The dream is all in the same graphics and engine as ''[[Metal Gear Solid]]'' for the PS1. (This is because it's actually a real section from the original MGS1.)
* In ''[[
** Port Royal and the characters in it are more detailed than the rest of the game and feature a lot of [[Real Is Brown]] since they are based on a [[Pirates of the Caribbean|live-action movie]]. Sora and his friends [[Lampshade Hanging|point out]] that this world looks different when they first arrive.
** The final cutscenes are also generated using much more realistic-looking CGI. It can be a bit of a shock the first time you see it, but it looks extremely good.
** More subtly, weapons and common Heartless get their textures shifted in [[The Nightmare Before Christmas|Halloween Town]] and [[Tron|Space Paranoids]] into darker, detailed textures for the former and [[Tron Lines]] for the latter while keeping their models (the heroes do get shifted in those worlds too, but their changes are more drastic than a simple texture swap). To wit: [http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20090825032958/kingdomhearts/images/0/05/Soldier_KH2.png a regular Soldier], [http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20100913212358/kingdomhearts/images/e/e5/Soldier_HT.png a Halloween Town Soldier] and [http://images4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20101005175639/kingdomhearts/images/2/27/Soldier_SP.png a Space Paranoids Soldier].
* ''[[Elite Beat Agents]]'' and ''[[Osu! Tatakae! Ouendan]]'' do this cleverly; while the agents/ouendan dance in 3D on the bottom screen, the results of their cheering is shown on the top screen in a mix between manga style (there are manga effects and word bubbles) and limited animation. The most clever use is in the ''Jumping Jack Flash'' stage of Elite Beat Agents: {{spoiler|as all of the agents' clients try to break the agents out of their stone status, the bottom screen is black. When they are freed, the agents jump down onto the bottom screen and start dancing}}.
* In ''[[Rakugaki Showtime]]'', which is done normally in a low-detailed, scribbly art style, does a momentary art shift in its intro movie. Yukiwo, the main character, is momentarily rendered in typical anime style for comedic effect before a dramatic attack.
* Used a lot in the ''[[
* ''[[
** ''[[Paper Mario (
*** ''[[Paper Mario:
*** ''[[
* Several scenes in the ''[[
* Combined with [[Art Evolution]] in ''[[
** One monster-hunting quest has never had its art updated, but had a [[Lampshade Hanging]] added to it halfway through when your character complains about searching for aquatic beasts in a picturesque lake.
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* In ''[[Castlevania: Symphony of the Night]]'', Maria asks Alucard if he has seen Richter Belmont. Maria has a thought bubble depicting a [[Sot N]] style Richter sprite. Alucard responds with a remembering of when he fought alongside Trevor Belmont, who he remembers in the form of the NES Trevor Belmont sprite.
** Also, in variation, the sprite used for Richter Belmont in that game is the same as his Rondo of Blood sprite, which doesn't match the artwork for the game. However, the Sega Saturn version has the option to play as him in a more accurate get up.
* ''[[
* ''[[
* In ''The Witcher 2: Assassin of Kings'', the art shifts from normal game play to an anime styled motion comic when Geralt sees visions of his past. Additionally, though I'm not sure if it's a true art shift, in the ''The Witcher'' the art would shift from game play to paintings done in the Renaissance style.
* Due to being a [[Dolled-Up Installment|dolled-up version]] of an unrelated Famicom game, ''Super [[Spy Hunter]]'' has a completely different art style.
* ''[[Prototype (
* The cutscenes for ''[[Super Mario 3D Land]]'' are all CG animated, but the "photos" [[Big Bad|Bowser]] took of the captive Peach are hand-drawn.
** ''[[Super Mario Galaxy]]'' uses CG for the cutscenes, but flashbacks are drawn in the same style as the children's picture book ''[[The Little Prince]]''.
* ''Super [[
* The Darkspawn visibly changed their look from ''[[Dragon Age|Dragon Age Origins]]'' to ''[[Dragon Age 2]]''.
* ''[[Golden Sun
== Web Animation ==
* ''[[Homestar Runner]]'' does this ''all. the. time.'' Several alternate versions of the main characters exist to parody various media genres, such as the "20X6" anime versions, the old-timey versions, the 60's [[Amateur Sleuth|cartoon mystery-solver]] versions... all of which have their own art style.
* ''[[Red vs. Blue]]'': In the original series, a few episodes were filmed with the game ''[[Marathon
** In Season 9, instead of trying to integrate them together, they have the flashbacks involving the freelancers in CGI and things involving the Blood Gulch teams in machinima.
* ''[[
** The scene where Hal fought Donkey Kong in episode 6 was 8-bit. Hal and Jeff used sprites rom the orginal [[Super Mario Bros.]], while [[Donkey Kong]] used the orginal [[Donkey Kong]] sprites.
** The story in episode 9. Everyone was drawn in Flash.
== Web Comics ==
* [[What's Shakin']] uses this in every flashback. Each flashback has a different art style.
** ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20140407040403/http://whatsshakincomic.com/2011/05/30/page-37/ Page 37]'' - Ell's flashback uses the old B&W animation style.
** ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20140407040402/http://whatsshakincomic.com/2011/06/06/page-38/ Page 38]'' - Pai's flashback uses a childish crayon style.
** ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20140407041301/http://whatsshakincomic.com/2011/06/13/page-39/ Page 39]'' - Nith's flashback is in a B&W manga style.
** ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20140407041724/http://whatsshakincomic.com/2011/06/20/page-40/ Page 40]'' - Coffin's flashback uses an old disco painting/tarnished style.
** ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20140407040800/http://whatsshakincomic.com/2011/08/29/page-49/ Page 49]'' - Fred's flahback has a monochrome red grunge style.
** ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20140407035735/http://whatsshakincomic.com/2011/09/19/page-52/ Page 52]'' & ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20140407040204/http://whatsshakincomic.com/2011/09/26/page-53/ Page 53]'' - The Sister's flashback uses an old cartoon, like Scooby Doo kind of style.
* In an odd non-animated example, ''[[
* In ''[[The Order of the Stick
** [http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0339.html This strip] has a police sketch artist draw up a picture of two antagonists, which he does in a much more realistic style than the comic itself. Naturally, he was then sacked for being rubbish at
* Loki's first person in ''[[
* [
** Also [
** Sinfest actually does this a lot, usually demonstrating the seriousness of the situation with how complex the art is. [[Animesque]] is more dramatic than smaller and more cartoonish strips.
*** And completely lampshaded and played around with starting [
** Earlier, [[
* ''[[The
* [http://www.sluggy.com/daily.php?date=070703 This] ''[[Sluggy Freelance]]'' uses Art Shift to make the [[Dream Sequence]] that much [[Mind Screw
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20150919183400/http://www.elftor.com/elftor.php?number=112 This Elftor strip].
* ''[[
* ''[[8-Bit Theater
** And then the epilogue for the series was done in handrawn art by the artist who worked on [[Brian Clevinger]]'s [[How I Killed Your Master|other webcomic]] [[In The Style]] of Akihiko Yoshida, the man who made the official artwork for the remake of ''[[
* ''[[Suicide for Hire]]'' uses a shift into poorly-drawn cartoons with scribbly shading [http://suicideforhire.comicgenesis.com/d/20090618.html here] in a flashback sequence; the character narrating the flashback is telling very flimsy lies, and the listeners know exactly how untrue his allegations are, hence the art being, in the artist's words, "as poorly composed as his story".
* ''[[The Cyantian Chronicles]]'': All comics written/drawn in [[The Cyantian Chronicles]] have at least some changes in the art style over the years. Although the Art Shift is especially apparent in Cesilee's Diary (Available via purchase only) and in Genoworks Saga.
** Typically, major art changes occur between the published comic books.
* ''[[
* In ''[[
* In ''[[
** Also, [http://yafgc.net/?id=1076 strip #1076] shifts to medieval tapestry style to go along with the "bardic" rhyming narration. This is an [http://yafgc.net/forums/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=687 homage to Ed Gorey] and the theme song to the TV show ''Mystery!'', for which Gorey did the animation.
* Played for laughs in [https://web.archive.org/web/20131011084618/http://feywinds.com/comic/page.php?id=16 this] ''[[Fey Winds]]'' strip.
* In ''[[Slightly Damned]]'', happens [http://www.sdamned.com/2004/11/11182004/ several] [http://www.sdamned.com/2004/11/11192004/ times] [http://www.sdamned.com/2006/03/03082006/ during] [[Dream Sequence
** Also, [[Flash Back
* ''[[Khaos Komix]]'' shifts between realistically-drawn and chibi characters, with the chibis usually representing inner thoughts or moments of high emotion.
* Although ''[[
* In ''[[Rusty and Co
* ''[[The Extremely Post Modern Adventures of Flint and Hinawa]]'' Had one of these, in response to the "Fan Art" it recived.
* ''[[Nature of
* ''[[
** The primary style uses sprite sheets that give the main characters a [[Super-Deformed]] (babyish) look and emphases that they are characters in a game.
** A highly pixellated sprite style reminiscent of [[Super Nintendo Entertainment System|Super NES]]
** Less stylized artwork with more realistic
** A shaded form of the above, featuring a great deal more detail [[The Noseless|(and noses, for the first time!)]]. Possibly this is purely an exercise in style. This is sometimes referred to as "Hussnasty mode".
** A scribble-style used occasionally for a few [[Running Gag
* ''[[Nicktoons Tales]]'' does this occasionally, but the most notable shift is in the [[Halloween Episode|Nicktoons Tales of Terror]] segment, ''[http://nicktoonhero.deviantart.com/art/Nicktoons-Tales-10-part-2-139873582 When The Crickets Cry]''.
* The comic ''[http://doodlediaries.comicgen.com Doodle Diaries]'' is made by three different people, who draw eachother in very different styles.
* ''[[Arthur, King of Time and Space]]'' has the heavily-stylised "triangle" format, which indicates either Arthur's comic-within-a-comic or that Paul Gadzikowski [[Real Life Writes the Plot|has less time to draw than usual or a broken scanner]]. A not ''quite'' as stylised version (the same one used for his fanfic comics) was used for the [[Alternate Continuity]] of ''Arthur King of Time And Space 2.0''
** Merlin's comic (now Nimue's) is done in a different style as well.
* ''[[SSDD]]'' added a bit of realism in one comic.
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* ''[[The Roaming Thicket]]'' (NSFW) changes styles of paper and medium depending on the context. Currently [https://web.archive.org/web/20120916211350/http://roaming.comicgenesis.com/d/20101103.html past events are on old paper in ink], [https://web.archive.org/web/20111106163700/http://roaming.comicgenesis.com/d/20101210.html recent events are on sketchbook paper in pencil] and perspective changes to a workbench [https://web.archive.org/web/20111106163623/http://roaming.comicgenesis.com/d/20101213.html whenever the Ghost Writer is talking.]
* [http://www.godmodeonline.com God Mode] has done this multiple times due to ever-changing artists. The [http://godmode.keenspot.com/d/20051003.html first artist] then the [http://godmode.keenspot.com/d/20070713.html second artist] then the [http://godmode.keenspot.com/d/20090826.html third artist] and finally the [http://godmode.keenspot.com/d/20110107.html most recent artist]
* ''[[Knights Errant (
* In [[
* In ''[[Bird Boy]]'', the opening strips, recounting a legend, differ substantially from the main story.
* [[Final Blasphemy]] has bittage shifts, with things changing from 8-bit to 16-bit to 32-bit at random. This is [[Lampshaded]].
* [[
* Combined with [[Painting the Medium]] in [http://www.neopets.com/newnt/index.phtml?section=4637&week=33 this] [[Neopets|Neopian Times]] strip.
* ''[[Snow By Night]]'' does this for "Feathers and Frost: A Snow by Night Vignette." For reference, [https://web.archive.org/web/20130127114213/http://www.snowbynight.com/pages/ch1/pg2.html here] is the first strip of the main comic, and [https://web.archive.org/web/20130116080046/http://www.snowbynight.com/pages/ch1/v1.html here] is the first panel of the vignette.
* Used in ''[[The Life of Nob T. Mouse]]'' to demonstrate [http://www.nobmouse.net/2010/12/10/into-another-world/ passage between universes], or shifts in genre.
* ''[[
* ''[[Zombie Ranch]]'' switches between a more realistic style showing actual happenings on the ranch (and beyond), and a [http://www.zombieranchcomic.com/2010/04/14/catastrophe-to-commodity/ cartoony style] representing the in-universe media ads and inserts for the TV show.
* In the [[Mega Crossover]] [[Fanfic|fan]][[Web Comic|comic]] ''[[Roommates 2007
* In ''[[Erstwhile]]'', [https://web.archive.org/web/20130927191426/http://www.erstwhiletales.com/maidmaleen-02/#.T29zg9m6SuI Maid Maleen's story opens with her own pictures], and [https://web.archive.org/web/20130927223159/http://www.erstwhiletales.com/maidmaleen-03/#.T29zT9m6SuI shifts to more ordinary pictures.]
* In ''[[The Adventures of Shan Shan]]'', [https://web.archive.org/web/20130614220219/http://shanshan.upperrealms.com/view.php?pageid=028&chapterid=2 Backpack's fantasies are childishly drawn.]
* In ''[[
** A presumably less deliberate example: some stylistic elements like the crayon-style outlines are used inconsistently from page to page.
* The majority of ''[[
* [https://girls-und-panzer-finale.jp/iaY7mRf2zJ/wp-content/themes/gulpan-finale2020/img/special/web_521r_b.pdf This] ''[[Girls und Panzer]] - Operation: More Love Love! Web Edition'' [[yonkoma]] (translation [https://danbooru.donmai.us/posts/6945340?q=pool%3A7425 here]) [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshades]] the "big anime eyes and Real Life contact lenses" issue with an Art Shift in its third panel. The Art Shift is then itself lampshaded.
== Western Animation ==
* ''[[
* ''[[The Grim Adventures of Billy
** ''The Big Boogie Adventure'' movie also did this when the characters have to paddle through a vortex, briefly turning them into puppets (Billy even lifts up his shirt to reveal a arm underneath causing the others to scream) Grim comments it as "disturbing" once they exit out of it.
** The show even switches to the style of ''[[The Powerpuff Girls]]'' at the end of one episode, after [[When She Smiles|Mandy smiles]] and [[These Are Things Man Was Not Meant to Know|breaks the laws of physics]].
* ''[[Codename
* ''[[My Life
* ''[[The Powerpuff Girls]]'',
*
** Also, in "Substitute Creature", the [[Imagine Spot|(imaginary) scenes]] of the monstrous-looking but [[Reluctant Monster|ultimately harmless]] substitute teacher wreaking havoc are done in a black-and-white
** In "Jewel of the Aisle", the girls are watching an ad for Lucky Captain Rabbit King Nuggets on TV, which is animated just like the actual "Lucky Charms" and "Trix" commercials. Just before the commercial, they also have a short clip of the series they're watching, "[[Beast Machines
* ''[[Batman: The Animated Series
** A more blatant art shift occurred when ''[[Superman:
* A similar thing was done in a ''Justice League Unlimited'' episode where Grodd was telling the story of the Viking Prince. They showed a series of still pictures in the style of Joe Kubert (who drew the ''Viking Prince'' comic).
* Similarly, an episode of ''[[Samurai Jack]]'' has each of a group of bounty hunters narrate his "defeat Jack" plan in a culturally-appropriate animation style.
** The episode with Aku telling [[Fairy Tale
** There is also an episode where Jack drops down a rabbit hole into a world that looks like a '60s era cartoon, complete with the associated physics.
** ''Samurai Jack'' plays with art shifts quite a lot. One episode has Jack and a demon/ghost facing off in a spectral realm, shown in flickering, insubstantial monochrome; another episode features Jack and a ninja darting between black and white scenery, playing with the visuals of light and shadow all the while.
* Once more in an early [[The Rashomon]]-esque episode of ''[[
** Also, in "Nightmares and Daydreams," the style gets slightly more cartoonish when Aang starts hallucinating. Especially Appa and Momo, who become [[Funny Animal|funny animals]].
* ''[[The Simpsons]]'':
** In the episode "El Viaje Misterioso de Nuestro Homer", Homer is temporarily animated in a surreal landscape while under the influence of "[[Mushroom Samba|the Merciless Peppers of Quetzlzacatenango]]".
** "Yokel Chords" has an art shift when Bart tells his "Dark Stanley" story, reminiscent of Edward Gorey or ''[[Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (
** In "Lady Bouvier's Lover", when Homer's dad and Marge's mother are dating, Homer thinks that if the two marry, the Simpson kids will become inbred and turn into "horrible freaks with pink skin, no overbite, and five fingers on each hand!" From Homer's POV, the kids briefly change to match this description, utterly [[
** The ''Treehouse of Horror'' "Homer^3" segment isn't so much an Art Shift as [[Medium Blending]]. Homer is rendered in [[
** The [[Couch Gag]] for "Bart Stops to Smell the Roosevelts" was done by [[John Kricfalusi]] in his unique, [[Deranged Animation|deranged]] style.
*** "Beware My Cheating Bart" had [[Bill Plympton]] do the couch gag.
* ''[[
** The episodes with [[Cthulhu]] has it and other abominations rendered in 3D CG, which greatly contrasts with the cardboard cutout style of SP, to show how alien they appear to normal people.
* ''[[Family Guy]]'' makes active use of Art Shift in conjunction with one-off gags. For example, one episode portrayed the family as [[The Simpsons (animation)|poorly drawn and badly voiced characters on ''The Tracy Ullman'' Show]].
** Another episode provides [[Film Noir]]-style reenactments of Dr. Hartman's prostate exams.
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'''Peter:''' Are you sure, judge? Are you sure it wasn't all evil and grainy and black and white? Think about it.
'''Dr. Hartman:''' ''(evil, grainy, black and white flashback)'' Relax... I be a doctor!
'''Judge:''' ''(freaking out)'' Guilty, guilty, guilty! }}
* The "Korean Animation" replacement ending from episode 4 of ''[[Clerks the Animated Series]]''. "Wait, who is driving? Oh my God, Bear is driving! How can that be?"
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** There's also a [[Running Gag]] that, when characters react to something unpleasant, there'll be a still image of it drawn in more detail than is practical in animation.
*** That's pretty much a [[Shout-Out]] to John Kricfalusi's [[Gross Up Close-Up]] technique.
* One episode of ''[[
** Also, whenever the show deviates into the Golden Turd subplot (which has only been done in "Homeland Insecurity" and another episode so far), the animation quality is changed to give it a more cinematic
** Stan is drawn in the style of [[
** "In Country... Club" had two short segments in alternate styles - first a flashback to [[The Vietnam War]] in a more realistic style, and then later when Roger listens to [[
* Used in ''[[The Emperor's New School
** Played up during their own [[Rashomon Style|Rashomon]] episode where different characters explain things in their own Doodle
* In ''[[
* Used in ''[[
* ''[[Transformers Animated]]'' begins with Optimus Prime watching old history footage from the war between Autobots and Decepticons that took place long before the present. What did they use to show this? Footage from ''[[Transformers Generation 1|the original Transformers cartoon]]''.
** Not only that, but it's from "War Dawn", the episode in which the Aerialbots went back in time and saw the beginning of the Great War in ''that'' series.
* ''[[Class of 3000]]'' did this during the music video portions of the show, with styles done by guest directors.
* An episode of ''[[The Fairly
** The second TV Movie, ''Channel Chasers'', makes great use of this since its a send up of animated kids shows. Ranging from golden age to Looney Tunes style to animesque to even puppetry.
* ''[[
** Many episodes also feature highly detailed still frames of a person or object. Usually this is used for a [[Gross Up Close-Up]], but occasionally it is used for other purposes, such as to make SpongeBob look extremely geeky. Probably the most [[Memetic Mutation|famous one]]: [[media:
** Oftentimes the show has live-action segments or cutouts thrown into the animation for comical effect. In "Frankendoodle", we see a live-filmed artist on a boat who drops his pencil. The pencil goes into the underwater world of Spongebob, but it stays live-action even when everything else is cartoony. Also in "The Snowball Effect", at the beginning a live-action shot of a glacier collapsing is shown to justify underwater snow.
* In the ''[[Kim Possible]]'' episode "Exchange", when Ron beats Fukushima ("It is my honor to defeat you!"), the art suddenly changes to a still shot of victorious Ron and Rufus in manga style.
* The [[Classic Disney Short]] ''The Nifty Ninties'' had Mickey and Minnie going to a vauldeville house and watching a sketchy, non-animated slideshow, ''[[Show Within a Show|Father, Dear Father]]''.
* ''[[The Angry Beavers]]'' episode "Pass It On".
* Whenever Owen of ''[[
** The group's song about New York, "What's Not to Love?" was done in a monochrome, Broadway musical poster style.
* ''[[
* ''[[Fish Hooks]]'' shifts between the typical cartoon look in the aquariums and a photo collage look outside.
* ''[[Jimmy Two-Shoes]]'' had a brief scene where it switched to 8-bit video game graphics.
* Done brilliantly in ''[[Chowder]]''. In the episode "Shopping Spree", Truffles falls ill and Mung, Chowder, and Schnitzel take the money box and blow all the money on plastic surgery, cool dude sunglasses, and a robot. Later when a food delivery is made, Mung realizes that there's no more money, and frantically asks, "No more money? Do you know what that means?" Following that he says, "No more money...", the animation quits and cuts to live action, showing the voice actors in studio as Mung's voice actor continues, "...means no more animation!" Everyone continues, in character, and after a carwash fundraising montage, they go back to animated, because they got enough money to get the animation back.
* ''[[The Pink Panther]]'' used this trope twice; [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6LmC7Kc4ak here], in the episode ''Hamm-N-Eggz'' and [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wo34DNaQ19k here] in ''The Texas Toads''.
* "Reincarnation", the season 6 finale of ''[[Futurama]]'' has three acts each done in three different styles: a [[Retraux]] [[Fleischer Studios]]-style cartoon, an eight-bit arcade game, and a ''[[Robotech]]''/''[[Voltron]]'' inspired [[Anime]].
* In the animated adaptation of [[
* ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
** In the episode "A Friend In Deed," Pinkie Pie's internal thought process is depicted with felt cutouts.
** And in "MMMystery on the Friendship Express," Pinkie's [[Imagine Spot
* ''[[Transformers Prime]]'' does this whenever they explain an event that happened in the past.
* ''[[The Smurfs]]: A Christmas Carol'' shifts from 3D CGI to 2D animation during the sequence when Grouchy is visited by the Smurfs of Christmas Past, Present, and Future.
* In the ''[[
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