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I remember a couple of these done in a similar distinctive (and slightly uncanny valley) 2D computer graphics style that aired on Nickelodeon back in the mists of history (would've been early '90s). They used a lot of color cycling effects, which looked really weird at high res/frame rate.
The one I remember the most clearly was one about an elephant who got an opportunity to wish she was a different color, but she waited too long to make up her mind and got stuck gray (though in the end she resolved to paint her toenails red). The thing I remember most clearly is the first line, something like "[morsala zaunt???] / was an elephant" but I have no idea how the name was spelled, only how it sounded (also, "elephant" got pronounced with a funny affectation to make it rhyme, like "ele-phaunt"; in fact, all the dialogue and narration in these rhymed).
There was one other about a girl daydreaming of how she'd change her look ("oh, it's fun to be a glamorous girl!") where her appearance kept changing to match her narration paper doll-style.
There might have been more than these two; I'm not sure? I feel like the elephant got more than one cartoon, to be sure, but again, my memories are foggy.