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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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* The Disney series ''[[Bonkers]]'' is similar to ''Who Framed Roger Rabbit?'', treating cartoon characters as actors. The titular bobcat is a washed-up cartoon star working as a cop in the "real world". If you're wondering how they pulled that off in pure animation, "Real" things and people were [[Real Is Brown|painted in a shade darker]] than "Toon" people and objects, as well as having a much more subdued range of motion and especially reaction. Humans were also drawn with [[Four-Fingered Hands|five fingers]], which becomes a plot point in one episode.
** The characters seemed to be [[Genre Savvy|aware]] that different physics applied to 'toon characters, and even referred to them like an ethnic minority.
* Disney's ''[[Alice Comedies]]'' a work by Walt Disney from 1923 (not only predating [[Mickey Mouse]], but predating Mickey’s prototype, [[Oswald the Lucky Rabbit]]). These silent movie shorts, made when Walt was still a novice animator, feature Alice, the protagonist (played by [[Virginia Davis]]), watching Walt at work, and later falling asleep and imagining herself in a cartoon world. There were a total of 57 Alice Comedies, but unfortunately, 16 of them are thought to be lost, and 1 of them partially lost.
* [[Max and Dave Fleischer]]'s ''[[Out of the Inkwell]]'' shorts. This and the ''[[Alice Comedies]]'' are especially notable for being one of the first attempts at playing around with animation / live action blending.
* Briefly in the opening of ''[[Jackie Chan Adventures]]''.
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