When is an animated character not a cartoon? Perhaps, as Randall Cyrenne points out in his article over at DVD Toons, when it is a “Pixoon”. On the eve of the release of Peter Jackson’s The Return Of The King, which features the animated Gollum, Rand’s new My Toon Cents feature, Cartoon Or Pixoon: When Animation Doesn’t Mean Cartoons looks at the phenomenon of animated characters in live-action films. Where should the very blurry line between these types of “actors” and their counterparts in fully CG films such as Finding Nemo and Final Fantasy be drawn, and are they cartoons or elaborate and very special effects?