Here's a commercial we completed that never got shown on the air. It's a funky little spot that I love personally.
It's a bank commercial from 2000 which was an interesting opportunity to move into hard core stylized 3D. As senior animator on this I was responsible for developing techniques for us to be able to mimic the style of an illustrator as well as doing the work, modeling, rigging, animating, lighting, rendering, fx. We ended up modeling the "drawn" lines for this commercial. The purpose was to be able to be flexible with the camera inside this very cheated 3D style. Thou beautiful, the commercial was never released for the public to see.
We used Softimage 3D and Mental Ray, and a combination of shaders.