Import Illustrator files or SVG images?

[ctennant]

Is it possible to import SVG or Illustrator files into Shake?  I'm animating a logo for someone and would like to keep the incredibly sharp edges instead of having to render from raster material.

[deke-kincaid]

Nope, raster all the way.  There is a list of supported file formats in the pdf manual that comes with Shake if you want to know what it supports.

[deke-kincaid]

I just thought of this though.  If you have Motion then you could put the file into a Motion file and then read that into Shake.  Shake can read live .motn files that are not prerendered.

[aaron-marine]

no it does not support those. mainly because shake is not a really a graphics application. it is strictly for compositing =)

[ctennant]

Deke and whitecrow1 thanks for your responses.
Deke, I know...I know   ...I've known the supported file format list for a few years and I just didn't want to believe there wasn't a way to get vector graphics into Shake somehow.........which in your second post you did!!
Thanks for coming back with the Motion workflow option!  I won't be able to go that route, but later on down the road I might be able to.

Whitecrow, understood.  I was hoping on doing something fairly quick, so thats why I wanted to use Shake instead of going into Maya for the project.