[development news or updates?]

Any development news?  It's been a long time.

[Adobe Illustrator import and extrude]

Hi Don,

We create a lot of logos and signatures for television shows and network brands, most animated in EI. All design is done with illustrator and extruded with "3D Invigorator", an After Effect plug-in. It does a great job, maintains the grouping based on the layers in the illustrator artwork and exports to many different formats, including .fact.

Zakwerks sells the same plug-in as a stand alone application "Pro Modeler".

http://zaxwerks.com/promodeler/index.shtml

Have a look at it, it's a great tool.

Christian

We use ProModeler for this also.

[Integrated Modeler]

Not really looking for a full modeler. For simple motion graphics projects we use ProModeler to extrude the shapes for logos, but the workflow is a pain to have to open ProModeler to do a couple of extrusions. It would just be nice to save the time of opening another program to do a basic extrusion, do an export and finally import it into animator. We use other modelers for bigger projects, but is the little ones that seem to be so inefficient. It certainly is not the highest on our priority list, but would be a nice time saver for basic projects.

[Integrated Modeler]

Would need Illustrator import for simple extrusions.