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[[File:Gumball T-rex 6228.jpg|link=The Amazing World of Gumball|frame| [[Up to Eleven|We're just scratching the surface with this show.]]]]
{{quote|''"Well, it should be obvious to even the most dim-witted individual, who holds an advanced degree in hyperbolic topology, that Homer Simpson has stumbled into... the third dimension!"''
|'''Frink'''|''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]''}}
▲{{quote|''"Well, it should be obvious to even the most dim-witted individual, who holds an advanced degree in hyperbolic topology, that Homer Simpson has stumbled into... the third dimension!"''|'''Frink''', ''[[The Simpsons]]''}}
Similar to [[Art Shift]], but instead of styles blending it's the blending of animation/filming techniques used to tell a story.
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See also [[Animated Credits Opening]], [[Roger Rabbit Effect]] and [[Sudden Videogame Moment]]. Compare [[Conspicuous CG]] and [[Sprite Polygon Mix]].
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== [[Advertising]] ==▼
▲== Advertising ==
* A UK [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QldJh-kv0Tc Beck's] commercial featured a stop-motion character, a string puppet, a hand-drawn character and a real human being all performing the same simplistic dance with the slogan "only ever four steps".
* The M&M's commercials by [[L Ai KA]] do this a lot.
▲== Anime & Manga ==
* ''[[FLCL]]''
** There's a whole live-action sequence used in the credits in which Haruko's yellow Vespa moped is seen riding itself around a city. (It actually belonged to character designer Yoshiyuki Sadamoto.)
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* The ''[[Venus Wars]]'' animated movie has a few outdoor landscape scenes where the landscape is actual live action landscape with the animated characters driving through it.
▲== Films ==
* ''[[Who Framed Roger Rabbit?]]'' is probably the most famous example of this (Hence why the [[Roger Rabbit Effect]] trope is named as such). The entire plot focuses around living cartoons being [[Animated Actors|filmed in the real world instead of being animated]].
* ''[[Cool World]]'' is kind of the poor man's perverted ''Roger Rabbit'', which featured a cartoon character who wanted to become real {{spoiler|and succeeded by having sex with a real person to do it.}}
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** It's also worth noting that the CGI used in the above scene is of lesser quality than the 1998 film. [[Take That|Take that as you will.]]
* The film version of ''[[James and the Giant Peach]]'' starts out as live action, then switches to stop-motion when James goes inside the peach. It returns to live action in the end, with only the bug characters done in stop-motion. Furthermore, there are hand-drawn effects animation, and a [[Dream Sequence]] done in cut-out animation.
* ''[[Osmosis Jones]]'' features live-action humans with animated inner space cells and viruses, [[Fantastic Voyage Plot]] style.
* ''[[Hedwig and The Angry Inch]]'' has an animated segment for the song "The Origins of Love", and some of the flashback scenes of Hansel growing up.
* ''[[Annie Hall]]'' has a brief animated [[Imagine Spot]] with Alvy and the Wicked Queen from ''[[Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (Disney film)|Snow White]]'', after he says that he always goes for the wrong woman.
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* ''[[Revolver]]'', from [[Guy Ritchie]] of ''[[Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels]]'' and ''[[Snatch]]'' fame, has [[Non Sequitur Scene|one scene]] in which the events and aftermath of a heist are shown in cartoon form, on a TV, ''during the heist!''
* ''[[Run Lola Run]]'' has a recurring motif(?) of showing the title character's actions in an animated form.
* ''[[UHF (film)|UHF]]'' features a dream sequence where [[Weird Al]] imagines a CG version of himself playing a psychedelic rock cover version of the theme from ''[[The Beverly Hillbillies]]''.
* In ''[[Nine to Five]]'', [[Lily Tomlin]], [[Jane Fonda]] and [[Dolly Parton]] get stoned and fantasize about killing their boss. All three fit the [[Art Shift]] trope, as the fantasies are filmed in distinctly different styles from the rest of the movie, but Lily Tomlin's features adorable animated wildlife surrounding her in the office kitchen as she poisons his coffee.
* In ''[[Waltz with Bashir]]'', the majority of the film is in two-tone, dreamlike animation until the protagonist remembers encountering a procession of women lamenting their slain husbands and children. At that point, the film switches to real footage of the aftermath of the [[wikipedia:Sabra and Shatila massacre|Sabra and Shatila massacre]], making it all too real for both the protagonist and the audience.
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* The very first case of a movie blending live action with CGI is, of course, Disney's ''[[Tron]]''. Note that, given the limitation of computers at the time, a good part of said animation was still hand-drawn or hand-colored.
* The ''[[Kick-Ass (film)|Kick-Ass]]'' movie references [[Kick-Ass|its origins]] by integrating some comic book aesthetics. There are occasional caption boxes on the screen saying stuff like "Meanwhile..." and Macready's backstory is told entirely in drawings, which is framed as a character reading a comic-book adaptation of the tale.
* ''[[
* ''[[The Wall]]'' by [[Pink Floyd]] switch back and forth between live-action and [[Deranged Animation]].
* ''[[Dinosaur]]'', Disney's first non-Pixar CGI-animated film, actually used CGI for mostly characters and props, and live action for the backgrounds (though with some CGI objects added).
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* The animated ''Raggedy Ann & Andy: A Musical Adventure'' (1977) includes a live-action wraparound featuring Marcella.
== [[Live-Action TV]] ==▼
▲== Live-Action TV ==
* ''[[Monty Python's Flying Circus]]'' roughly alternates between animated and live segments. On average, there's probably more continuity between adjacent segments when they're of different media than when they're not.
* ''[[Life On Mars]]'' has a [[Claymation]] sequence where Sam and Gene appear in the '70s children's show ''Camberwick Green''.
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* Played with a few times in ''30 Rock''. Every once in awhile, we'll see the world through the eyes of various characters, with Kenneth seeing everyone as a happy puppet. He also appeared as a puppet in a HD camera, playing with his overly happy to an inhuman level attitude.
▲== Music Videos ==
▲* The [[Gorillaz]] video clips make heavy use of Medium Blending from the very beginning.
** The first one, "Tomorrow Comes Today", uses real backgrounds behind the 2D characters.
** Later clips, starting with "Clint Eastwood", mix traditional animation with many CG elements. In "19-2000", the Gorillaz themselves are in 3D for wide shots, though still 2D for close-ups.
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** Later clips have the characters more and more often in 3D, including for "live" performances. The MTV European Music Awards 2005 in Lisbon had the three-dimensional Gorillaz ''on stage'', thanks to an updated version of the old Victorian parlour trick named "[[wikipedia:Peppers Ghost|Pepper's Ghost]]". Repeated for the Grammy Awards 2006 in Los Angeles, this time alongside [[Madonna]] as guest-star.
** In the latest phase, the clip for "Stylo" is almost entirely live-action with just three of the Gorillaz in quasi-realistic 3D {{spoiler|(and [[Bruce Willis]] as the antagonist)}}.
** "On Melacholly Hill" returns the characters to 2D {{spoiler|(save for Cyborg-Noodle who stay CG-rendered, to keep her
== [[Puppet Shows]] ==
* ''[[Sesame Street]]'' is mainly a [[Puppet Shows]], but regularly intersected with animated sequences.
* ''[[Les Guignols
== [[Video Games]] ==▼
▲== Video Games ==
* In ''[[Prototype (video game)|Prototype]]'', the Web of Intrigue videos are mainly stylised live-action with a bit of game footage here and there.
* ''[[Mirror's Edge]]'' makes use of 2D Flash animation in its cutscenes, which also serve as loading screens, just before each level, which tends to come across as a sharp contrast to the actual in-game character designs and first-person cinematics.
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* ''[[Painkiller]]'' makes use of a graphic novel-style intro.
== [[Web Animation]] ==▼
▲== Web Animation ==
* ''[[Homestar Runner]]'' uses several different variaties of [[Art Shift]] meant to resemble different techniques, but most of them are all still just animated in Flash and don't count. The most notable genuine example of Medium Blending would have to be the puppet segments. Also, the ''Peasant's Quest'' Movie Trailer.
== [[Web Comics]] ==▼
* ''[[Homestuck]]'' is usually a normal comic (at least in terms of art), but often shifts into animated GIFs, Flash animations, and the occasional RPG-like interactive sequence. The latter two have "[S]" before the page name; seeing [S] in an update usually indicates an inbound [[Wham! Episode]].▼
▲== Web Comics ==
▲* [[Homestuck]] is usually a normal comic (at least in terms of art), but often shifts into animated GIFs, Flash animations, and the occasional RPG-like interactive sequence. The latter two have "[S]" before the page name; seeing [S] in an update usually indicates an inbound [[Wham! Episode]].
* If a webcomic occasionally making use of animated gifs can count, then ''[[Gastrophobia]]'' is an example with [http://gastrophobia.com/index.php?date=2009-08-21 this strip] and the [http://gastrophobia.com/index.php?date=2009-08-24 following one].
* One episode of ''Mountain Time'' has 2D, black-and-white stick figures turning into [https://web.archive.org/web/20111223061509/http://mountaincomics.com/2011/10/13/mountain-time-304/ 3D, full-color clay models]. (Their speech is still in 2D text bubbles, but it's Japanese.)
* ''[[This Is Not Fiction]]'' uses digitally painted panels for its pages, but the chapter covers are all photographs of hand-drawn paper cut-outs of the characters.
== [[Western Animation]] ==▼
* ''[[The Amazing World of Gumball]]'' (pictured above) has this as a founding artistic element: Some characters are
▲== Western Animation ==
* ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]''▼
▲* ''[[The Amazing World of Gumball]]'' (pictured above) has this as a founding artistic element: Some characters are traditional hand-drawn, some are CGI, some are stop motion, some are [[Paper People]], and there's even a couple people that are in some way live action (one character is a chinface, for example), etc. And the backgrounds are photos, albeit they've been edited so certain parts blend together better.
▲* ''[[The Simpsons]]''
** The famous "Homer<sup>3</sup>" segment on the [[Halloween Episode]] "Treehouse of Horrors VI", where Homer winds up in the "third dimension" where he's animated differently in 3D CGI. The episode ended in Homer getting teleported to the real world, while still being computer-animated. It should be noted "Homer<sup>3</sup>" aired before ''[[Toy Story (franchise)|Toy Story]]'' came out.
** One of the [[Couch Gag]]s in a later season was the normal title sequence filmed in live action, which was originally a commercial made for the syndicated broadcast on the U.K. channel Sky1 (the parts with the car were flipped so they were in line with the way cars and roads are in America).
** Another was Maggie's dream in the 2010 Christmas episode, with the Simpson family and Mr. Burns as muppets, and Katy Perry appearing live-action.
* ''[[Out of the Inkwell]]'' from [[Fleischer Studios]] was one of the first, if not THE first example of medium blending. It involved a live-action artist (Max Fleischer) drawing animated<ref>and [[Rotoscoping|frequently rotoscoped]]</ref> characters as they [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|leak out from an inkwell]] in the silent era of film.
* [[Fleischer Studios]] also invented the "Stereoptic Process" in the 1930s to allow panning across
* ''[[Chowder]]'' has examples of this in every episode with puppets, traditional stop motion, and stop motion ''with food'' for scene changes.
** Not to mention there's an episode that featured the voice cast getting filmed going from the sound studio to a car wash so they could make enough money to afford being animated again.
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* Robert Mandell was a pioneer of this back in the early and mid 1980's, mixing CGI in with cel animation in both ''Thunderbirds 2086'' and ''[[Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers|Galaxy Rangers]]''. The CGI was justified by having it be on computer terminals and as the avatar of A.I. units.
* The Nick Jr.'s show ''[[Bubble Guppies]]'' have characters with CGI bodies and Flash animated facial features. It also has some segments with Flash characters and backdrops.
* The HBO Family show
* The episode "A Friend in Deed" of ''[[My Little Pony:
* ''[[Arthur]]'' had some instances of this play into effect. For example, the episode where D.W. manages to trick Arthur into taking her to a science museum had her and The Brain watching a TV educational documentary that had live action sequences on the animated TV screen.
** Something similar happened in ''[[Doug]]'', where Skeeter, while staying at Bebe Bluff's house as part of a [[Trading Spaces]] bet among the friends, watches the TV at her house and notes that she has a lot of channels (at least one of which is distinctly shown in live-action).
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