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{{trope}}
{{quote|''"He'll spend a 30 million dollar budget, trying as hard as he can to make it look like he only spent a few hundred thousand. The first step is to spend millions on a hand-drawn title sequence that looks like it was made by some Junior High kid during Pre-Algebra."''|'''[[Homestar Runner (Web Animation)|Strong Bad]]''', Strong Bad e-mail 203, [http://www.homestarrunner.com/sbemail203.html "independent"]}}
 
A live-action movie or TV show that has an animated [[Artistic Title]] sequence with all sorts of wacky hijinx. It may foreshadow the plot, set up the backstory, or just be emblematic of the story's theme.
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A subtrope of [[Medium Blending]]. Compare [[Bait and Switch Credits]].
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== Films -- Animation ==
* ''[[Monsters, Inc. (Animation)|Monsters Inc.]]'' and ''[[Kung Fu Panda (Animation)|Kung Fu Panda]] '' have opening sequences that engage in [[Medium Blending]] to 2D animation.
* A recent trend is for CGI features to have 2-D animation for the closing credits: ''[[The Incredibles (Animation)|The Incredibles]]'', ''[[Ratatouille]]'', ''[[WALL-E]]'', ''[[Kung Fu Panda (Animation)|Kung Fu Panda]]'', ''[[Bolt (Disney)|Bolt]]'', ''[[Cloudy Withwith a Chance of Meatballs]]'', ''[[Tangled (Disney)|Tangled]]'', etc.
* ''.hack//Liminality'' features opening credits over the ''.hack'' game footage.
* The title sequence of the 2011 ''[[The Adventures of Tintin (Filmfilm)|The Adventures of Tintin]]'' is animated in 2D.
 
 
== Films -- Live-Action ==
* ''[[Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (Film)|Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein]]''
* ''Are We Done Yet?''
* ''[[Around the World Inin Eighty Days]]'' (1956) has animated ''closing'' credits.
* ''Auto Focus''
* ''[http://www.watchthetitles.com/articles/00177-The_Back_up_Plan The Back-Up Plan]''
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* ''[[Better Off Dead]]''
* ''Big Momma's House'' was originally supposed to have one but it was dropped after test audiences found it too cheesy.
* ''[[Blacula (Film)|Blacula]]''
* ''[[Catalina Caper]]'', riffed on in a [[MST3KMystery Science Theater 3000]] episode. Joel and the Bots seemed to prefer the animation to the rest of the movie.
* ''[[Catch Me If You Can]]''
* ''City Slickers''
* ''C.H.O.M.P.S''
* ''[[Condorman]]''
* The 2004 retro-style live action ''[[Cutey Honey (Anime)|Cutey Honey]]'' movie.
* ''The Dogfather''
* ''[[Down With Love]]'', [http://www.watchthetitles.com/articles/0052-Down_With_Love in keeping with] the [[Retraux]] style.
* The [[Vincent Price]] comedy ''Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine'' had part of its opening credits animated by [[Gumby|Art Clokey]].
* ''[[Elf (Film)|Elf]]''
* ''[[Four Rooms (Film)|Four Rooms]]'' -- interesting—interesting for containing references to the cut fifth story.
* All three [[Dollars Trilogy]] movies have some form of animation for their opening credits. ''[[A FistfulofFistful of Dollars]]''' is totally animated, ''[[For a Few Dollars More]]'' has animated words on a live-action background, and ''[[The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (Film)|The Good the Bad And The Ugly]]'' has a mix of animation and still photos with various filters applied to make them look somewhat hand-drawn.
* ''[[Freaked]]''
* ''[[Friday (Filmfilm)|Friday After Next]]''
* Being themselves inspired by a cartoon, both ''[[George of the Jungle (Filmfilm)|George of the Jungle]]'' [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5-3jQwbDi0 The Movie] and the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0csGHvZfyMM direct-to-video Part 2] have animated credits, although in wildly different style.
* ''[[Going Overboard]]''
* ''[[Grease]]''
* ''[[Honey I Shrunk the Kids (Film)|Honey, I Shrunk the Kids]]''
* ''[[It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (Film)|Its a Mad Mad Mad Mad World]]''
* Most of the ''[[James Bond (Filmfilm)|James Bond]]'' films.
* ''[[Juno]]'' (although it was more rotoscoped than actually animated).
* ''[[Kiss Kiss Bang Bang]]'', probably as an homage to ''Anatomy of a Murder'' and other noir classics.
* ''[[Labyrinth (Film)|Labyrinth]]''. Notable as one of the first such sequences to be made with CGI. The animated barn owl that sweeps above and around the credits becomes a live-action one as the film proper starts, and not long after is revealed to be the shapeshifted form of the villain.
* ''The Lady Eve''
* ''[[Land of the Lost (Filmfilm)|Land of the]] [http://www.watchthetitles.com/articles/00137-Land_of_the_Lost Lost]''
* ''Mannequin''
* ''[[Monty PythonsPython's Life of Brian]]'' and ''[[Monty PythonsPython's theThe Meaning of Life]]'' have animated credits by Terry Gilliam.
* The live-action version of ''[[Mr. Magoo (Film)|Mr. Magoo]]'', naturally enough, uses the animated character for its credits.
* As does the film adaptation of ''Underdog''.
* ''[httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20121031014040/http://watchthetitles.com/articles/0078-Mr_Magoriums_Wonder_Emporium Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium]''
* ''[[Mrs. Doubtfire (Film)|Mrs. Doubtfire]]'', in which [[Chuck Jones]]' animated credits overlap into the film proper as [[Robin Williams]]' character is revealed to be a voice artist working on (and subsequently fired from) the cartoon we've just seen.
* ''Nanny McPhee''
* ''[[National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation (Film)|National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation]]''
* ''[[No Deposit, No Return]]''
* ''[[One Crazy Summer]]'' is a semi-example: not strictly credits, and [[Justified Trope|justified]] by the main character being a cartoonist.
* ''[[The Parent Trap (1961 film)|The Parent Trap]]'' (the original, not the remake) features a stop-motion animation sequence during its opening credits.
* ''[[The Pink Panther]]'', whose titles spawned its own series of animated shorts, which themselves inspired a TV show (which, ironically enough, used live-action credits in its first season).
* ''The Private Eyes'', an early 1980s comedy starring Don Knotts and Tim Conway.
* ''[[Rat Race]]''
* ''[[Run Lola Run (Film)|Run Lola Run]]''
* ''Ruthless People''
* A deleted scene in ''[[Scooby -Doo (Filmfilm)|Scooby Doo]]'' is this.
* ''[[Film/A Series Of Unfortunate Events|A Series Of Unfortunate Events]]'' has animated closing credits that run so long it's almost a mini-film in itself. And a creepily gothic one, too.
* ''[[Soap Dish]]''
* ''[[Super (Film)|Super]]''
* ''[[Super Mario Bros. (Filmfilm)|Super Mario Bros: The Movie]]'', which begins with footage of pixellated dinosaurs.
* ''[[Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny]]''
* ''Those Magificent Men in Their Flying Machines''
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* The British [[Game Show]] ''3-2-1''.
* The French wildlife show ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18pP1JUZEIY Les Animaux du monde]'' ([[Schmuck Bait|warning]]: serious [[Ear Worm]]).
* ''[[Batman (TV series)|Batman]]''
* ''[[Bewitched (TV)|Bewitched]]''
* ''[[Blackout]]'', Bob Goen's first network game show.
* ''[[Bullseye (UK game show)|Bullseye]]''
* The late 1960s/early 1970s kids' fantasy series ''Catweazle''.
* ''[[Chuck]]''
* The mid-1990s sitcom ''Dave's World''.
* ''[[Densha Otoko]]''
* ''[[Desperate Housewives]]''
* ''[[Even Stevens]]'', using [[Stop Motion]] plasticine versions of the actors
* ''[[Honey I Shrunk the Kids (TV series)|Honey I Shrunk the Kids]]''
* ''[[Hustle]]'', possibly as a [[Shout -Out]] to ''Catch Me if You Can''.
* ''[[I Dream of Jeannie (TV)|I Dream of Jeannie]]''
* ''[[I Love Lucy]]'' (although these were replaced in syndication).
* ''Jeux Sans Frontières'' (a.k.a. ''It's a Knockout''), a wacky European athletics show.
* ''[[Land of the Giants (TV)|Land of the Giants]]''
* ''Last Call with Carson Daly''
* ''[[Lost in Space (TV)|Lost in Space]]''
* ''[[Mad Men (TV)|Mad Men]]''
* ''[[The Mickey Mouse Club]]''
* ''[[Misfits (TV)|Misfits]]''
* ''[[Monty Python's Flying Circus (TV)|Monty Python's Flying Circus]]''
* ''[[My Three Sons]]''
* ''[[The Nanny]]''
* ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20140804231611/http://www.watchthetitles.com/articles/0095-The_No_1_Ladies_Detective_Agency The No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency]''
* The 1970s [[Britcom]] ''[[On the Buses (TV)|On the Buses]]''.
* ''[[The Partridge Family]]''
* ''[[The Phil Silvers Show]]''
* A special case with ''[[Rome (TV)|Rome]]'', whose credits feature animated graffitis and paintings over the walls of [[Ancient Rome]].
* ''[[Soul Train (TV)|Soul Train]]''
* ''[http://www.watchthetitles.com/articles/0021-The_Starter_Wife The Starter Wife]''
* The UK children's show ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtymNiYlSD4 Super Gran]''.
* ''To Say the Least''
* ''[[T vs.TV's Bloopers and& Practical Jokes]]'', by none other than [[Mad|Mad Magazine]] artist [[Sergio Aragones]].
* ''[[Ultra Seven]]''
* ''What's My Line?'', in the late 1960s.
* ''[[Wheel of Fortune (TV)|Wheel of Fortune]]'' used some in the 1990s, including anthropomorphic Wheel wedges dancing down a staircase, then one of Pat and Vanna parachuting, then a CGI shot of the Sony Pictures Studios. In 2010, the opening sequence featured Miis of Pat and Vanna to promote the then-upcoming [[Home Game]] for Nintendo's Wii and DS.
* ''[[Whew]]'', another game show by producer Jay Wolpert, who just loved these in general.
* The British version of ''[[Whose Line Is It Anyway? (TV)|Whose Line Is It Anyway]]'' featured [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tisjk7CqNsQ&feature=related this title sequence] in its later seasons, which was evidently inspired by a series of Italian animated shorts, "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=skb2gKR7rOk La Linea]".
* ''[[The Wild Wild West (TV series)|The Wild Wild West]]''
 
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