Our animation team consists of me and a friend. In the off season we basically work on random things separately and then collaborate once and while when something comes up. One of the main things we do is make videos for our English class using 3ds Max, Flash, and Combustion to blow the minds of the people in our class in hopes of receiving a good grade.
If you would like to see one of our off season English videos on Walden Pond here it is
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mv8gKfAOwec
The visual effects part starts at 4:40 if you want to skip the other stuff. But if you don't skip over that stuff... sorry for the squeaky tripod at 3:57, it makes me cringe every time.