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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 [[Comedy Tropes|comedy]], and it usually is, the characters tend to be [[Genre Savvy]] 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, ''[[Who Framed Roger Rabbit?]]''.
A sub-category of this trope is any story where cartoon characters are real and exist independently from "real" human beings (which may or may not be set in [[Toon Town]]). Since this is such a visual idea, it's not very common in forms of media that lack a visual aspect, [[Who Censored Roger Rabbit?
Another subtrope is to have human characters be live-acted and other animals be animated.
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== Literature ==
* ''[[Who Censored Roger Rabbit?
** Interestingly, unlike the movie, the book presents the Toons as comic-strip characters (talking via speech balloons, for instance) rather than animated cartoons. If memory serves, one scene has Eddie attempting to reattach Roger's nose first with tape and then glue.
* The [[Doctor Who Expanded Universe]] 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 ([[Contemptible Cover|ridiculous-looking]]) cover features a cartoon of the Doctor, so it's not clear exactly what is going on.
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