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Macross series from Macross Frontier onward use this to render the mecha.

Suzy's Zoo: Daisuki! Witzy employs this trope so well that it is impossible to tell that it's actually CGI without checking the credits, or catching several very small quirks (ie, the characters turning wouldn't be that fluid if it was 2D animation).

Complaints about this causing Uncanny Valley lead to Season 2 and beyond switching to using traditional animation completely.

In Sailor Moon Crystal, the switch to 3D animation used for team shots during the opening and for the heroine's Transformation Sequence is cel-shaded, but that doesn't prevent it from being fairly obvious, due to the flatter aesthetic of the traditionally animated Noodle People character designs.

The show alternates between traditional animation and cel-shading a lot.

Some scenes in Kirby: Right Back at Ya! are rendered in cel-shaded 3D.

Kakurenbo: Hide and Seek is mainly cel-shading.

TO (a two-episode anime that can be found on Netflix) is animated entirely with cel-shading, and looks very similar to Street Fighter IV's artstyle.

Also the various animated suits of armor.

Envy's true form in Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood is cel shaded CGI.

Initial D Fourth Stage uses cel shading to great effect, compared to the very obvious 3D of earlier stages.

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Code Geass: Akito the Exiled uses cel shading on its highly detailed Knightmare Frames with very good results.Freedom Project, which had character designs by Katsuhiro Otomo.Other CG vehicles tended to be rather more obvious. Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex used excellent cel shading on the CG Tachikomas.Occasionally, the CGI would be replaced with traditional animation, creating an even worse jarring effect - and worse yet - it blew the CGI out of the water. How well they did is a whole other matter entirely. Transformers Energon used cel shading for the CGI transformers.Dawn of the Seeker (also by the same people) uses cel shading for the human characters but photorealistic rendering for the environments and the monsters.

A particular feature is that the shadows are filled with a linear hatching effect which simulates shading with a pen or pencil, and the same hatching effect is applied to the shadows that appear on any 2D models to create a more uniform look. The 3D characters and objects are filtered through a cel shader that turns the shadows into solid blocks of color instead of smooth gradients to make them look more like 2D cartoons.

Berserk (2016) is a hybrid between 3D CGI and 2D hand-drawn anime.

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Berserk had a 2012-13 movie trilogy adaptation which tried to blend lots of 3D character models and objects for the big army and action scenes with traditional 2D animation, using shaders to make the colors, shadows, and textures look more two-dimensional.

From the same production team, Vexille.

Appleseed - The 2004 movie and its sequel, Ex Machina.

being too detailed or smoothly animated).

When mixing cel shading with traditional animation, it's important to calibrate the renderer to avoid visually clashing with the rest of the production (i.e. There are also animated series produced exclusively via cel shading, usually for similar reasons. In other media, Cel Shading can be useful to render specific items in a hand-drawn production, if a given scene would be too difficult to animate by hand, such as a rotating object or an Epic Tracking Shot traveling down the length of a massive vehicle. While the style is not exclusive to Video Games, it is often used there since this is the only way to produce a hand-drawn look via computer polygons. The style was codified with the Sega Dreamcast game Jet Set Radio. In layman's terms, it imitates the look of hand-drawn artwork and animation. Cel Shading is a style of computer rendering that replaces the shading gradient of conventional rendering with flat colors and shadows (as seen at right).

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