Re: Doctor Who Season Two: Disney+ Trailer

On 2025-03-15 21:01:09 +0000, The Last Doctor said:

On 15/03/2025 20:38, Your Name wrote:

On 2025-03-15 09:33:26 +0000, Blueshirt said:

 

Not done in Doctor Who before (that I know of), but certainly the same sort of idea has been done before in other shows, movies, and music videos. One of the better examples is a "Stargate SG-1" episode where they were all puppets similar to Gerry Anderson's "Thunderbirds", "Stingray", etc.
<https://youtu.be/g9XrrEaZ7Y4>

 Living puppets has been done on audio for Doctor Who by Big Finish ("The
 Scorchies") but not cartoons.

The fan-made "Doctor Puppet" series of short stop-motion videos are really good.
<https://www.youtube.com/@HelloDoctorPuppet/videos>

 The classic "cartoons interacting with humans" examples are, of course, "Who
 Framed Roger Rabbit?" and "Space Jam" - where a toon disguised himself as
 the Fourth Doctor (probably) - and "Looney Tunes: Back in Action" - which
 has a cameo by a Dalek.

Roger Rabbit claims to be the first, and probably was the first *full length* combination, but there were many animated / live-action combinations before that, such as Dick Van Dyke dancing with panimated penguins in the original 1964 "Mary Poppins" and of course the old Ray Harryhausen stop-motion / live-action movies.
There are many others with combined animation and live-action. The Smurfs movies starring the Doogie Howser actor and CGI Smurfs interacting in modern day New York, but they were absolutely awful. The recent(ish) "Tom & Jerry" movie was okay, although it would have been much better as fully animated.
These days CGI makes combining animated and live-action characters much easier and many movies are doing it.

Movie figures come to life has been done in live action a couple of times
 ("The Purple Rose of Cairo" and "The Last Action Hero" spring to mind.
 Most recently there was a crossover episode between "Star Trek: Strange New
 Worlds" (live action) and "Star Trek: Lower Decks" (animated) but in that
 case the cartoon characters crossed a portal as live action humans.

One episode of "The Simpsons" had a live-action remake of the opening credits.
<https://youtu.be/khIx5EB74vY> There has also been a couple of specials done (one for IMAX cinemas) where the 2D cartoon Simpsons cross over into the 3D real world, becoming 3D CGI characters in the transition.
Lazy Disney is doing "live action" remakes of many of their animated movies, some like "The Lion King" are actually fully CGI, so not really live action at all.