The thread in showcase made me think of this. Really great style.
Here is a link to the .pdf white paper:
http://www.valvesoftware.com/publications/2007/NPAR07_IllustrativeRenderingInTeamFortress2.pdf
And here is a link to a video(with footage) discussing the white paper:
Peace,
dingo
Yeah. That’s a really neat style. I am waiting since years to play TF2! 
That’ll be fun!
That’s my favorite btw:
The heavy One
Here is a link to the video of the whitepaper at a probably better server:
Illustrative Rendering Movie
Ladies and gentlemen, introducing the engineer:
That engineer is SO great!
Yep, it’s extremely well done. The idea, the setting, the camera cuts and angles, the timing, the mimic, the sounds. I could stare a hundred times at his mimic and his glasses. Just the hands without gloves are a big too large, too silent drinking, restaring rocket in the sky, i somehow missed a bone in the lonesome hand like in the soldier video and kicking the hand looked a bit too much motion captured.
Gametrailers is really the best place to view stuff if they have it. The rendering style movie in HD: