Animate Lite and Textures

I'm rendering out an animation where halfway through one of the textures change. But I have to render half with one texture and half with the other.
Is there a way to have the texture change as part of the animation. Like when I have a body part move?
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The simplest solution would be to do two animations and join them - if youn render to an image sequence, which is good practice anyway, that is simple.