I have
Gave it a red hot go. Blender 2.74, inspired by the BEER guys developing a new NPR system for Blender. Simple meshes, build modifiers, rendered in Freestyle. I have a job coming up that I'll be using the Freestyle renderer for mostly and it produces some really excellent quality at very low render times.
Until it shows on Behance, it's https://www.dropbox.com/s/r2y41gdk97ro2h8/NPR_Globe.mov?dl=0 here.