Iconic animations that have an identifiable style and look to them generally have a great deal of unique texturing that coheres with the point of their story, and there is nothing quite so iconic as the Toy Story movies when it comes to animation.
Toy Story Trailer: http://youtu.be/KYz2wyBy3kc
Toy Story 3 Trailer: http://youtu.be/TNMpa5yBf5o
Despite the movies spanning over a decade, the texturing is pretty similar throughout all three movies, because animators wanted to make the toys look like actual toys giving most all of them a plastic make over with varying degrees of roughness etc. All the Toy Stories will eventually show their age, because of the limitations of technology. However, the kid-like attributes that the Toy Story trilogy gives to all of the surroundings is quite iconic. There is a lot of detail in the textures, yet a simplicity that holds everything in the movie back from being completely life-like.
Similarly Shrek is an equally big name in animation, although perhaps not as legendary or respected.
Shrek Forever After Trailer: http://youtu.be/u7__TG7swg0
Around 2:15 in the above trailer Donkey and Puss in Boots have a texture that I've never seen in an animation, which is wet fur done well.
Like Toy Story, the Shrek movies have a distinct grotesque, medieval balance with a life-like appearance that is slightly off. Again the texturing reflects the grunge-like quality of fairy tales, where reality is slightly twisted to a darker more magical place. In a lot of ways the textures look like a realistic oil painting and the modeling reflects portraiture, but Toy Story looked more veristic in its cartoon portrayals. (Painting vs. Photography within Cartoon Animation).
Spyro Commercial: http://youtu.be/iRrn9akG-qg
In this commercial for some sort of new Spyro something or other the creatures have a different type of 3D animation that mimics a claymation/toy look that is very unique.
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