Here's a very short animation I created in a day using 3D Studio MAX.  It was just a quick test for myself (in MAX) of a storyboard I was shown at the IBM Multimedia Centre...
The animation is supposed to be of a Dollar sign being whipped into shape.

The Video Clip will be removed soon due to space limitations.
The file size is 0.5MB  (352x288, 25fps, Whitebook PAL MPEG-1)