Thanks everyone for the suggestions. I don’t have AE, so I’ve been using ProAnimator stand-alone – I had no idea how much more flexible it is as plug-in. The fact the output of the plug-in is key-framed animated 3d objects instead of a pre-rendered image is incredibly powerful.
John D, great tutorials!
Things I’d like to see in the next PA:
– poseable lights
– soft shadows
– more basic modelers, like lathing
– more flexible texture mapping (ability to position map, scale map, change mapping type, etc.)
– raytrace render engine w/ true reflections
Brandon