Well, Matt Parker and Trey Stone (makers of South Pork) were given $2’000’000 to make 16 short cartoons for Macromedia. They got paid upfront, submitted the first 2, and no one ever contected them again, ever.
I’ll link to the page I found it, so no one bitches about how I’m stealing bandwidth off people I don’t care about.
http://www.redban.com/modules.php?name=Downloads&d_op=viewdownload&cid=23
Or, if you don’t want to waste time registering…
http://www.redban.com/ep01.swf
http://www.redban.com/ep02.swf
Enjoy.