Brush styles in Illustrator CC

In Illustrator CS1 I could apply foot track (bear, deer, human) brush styles. I haven't found these styles in Illustrator CC. Where might I find them, within Illustrator CC, or within a 3rd party brush library?

In CS5.5 there are in Borders-Novelty. I can't confirm in CC as I don't have it installed.

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    I have several brush styles that I routinely distort with custom stroke profiles. Unfortunetly, every time I change the brush style, the profile is lost. Can I prevent this from happening?

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    Wow you know that frustrating feeling you sometimes have when you just don't get what is going on inside Illustrator. I had a good piece of it today when all I wanted to do was a simple basic brush stroke. But instead Illustrator forced a weird fancy stroke no matter how many times I tried to change the settings.
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    Is "New Art has Basic Appearance" selected in the Appearance Panel menu?

  • Changing Blob Brush Styles

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  • Why is the brush tool in Illustrator CC inferior to the brush tool in CS6? It has less control of fidelity and smoothness. It is terrible - and I'm an illustrator. Can I use the CS6 brush engin in CC?

    I loved the brush tool in CS6 Illustrator- by turning fidelity to the lowest setting, and smoothness down to zero, pumping up pressure sensitivity, it accurately reproduced the fine shapes of a drawn stroke. I'm an illustrator, so I don't want artificially smoothed curves, I want the line I drew.
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    I am very disappointed, Adobe. Do I have to go back to CS6 for all my Illustration work? Please improve the CC brush tool controls.
    I am still reeling from Adobe's quiet removal of a whole tool: Inverse Kinematics/Bone tool from Flash CC JUST when I was finally using it to animate, but that's another story.
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    More on this, now becoming known as the CC pencil tool fiasco, on these fora:
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    If you are affected by the lower accuracy controls for CC's brush or pencil tools, use this Bug report/Feature request form to let the folks at Adobe know- they are actually hopefully going to fix this.......
    thanks to Daniel for setting this up:
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    Obviously customer service & product development are two different departments, so if you're bummin out on the new functionality, submit a bug report!
    link to submit bug report:
    https://www.adobe.com/cfusion/mmform/index.cfm?name=wishform
    ******BUG******
    Concise problem statement:
    I was told to by Neeraj N(staff) to report this issue based on this link : (http://forums.adobe.com/message/6065706).
    The Pencil / Brush tools have lost essential functionality with the addition of the new accurate / smooth adjustment preset. Users are no longer able to specify high-accuracy pen mapping, as the finest accuracy setting is now set to 2.5px (legacy versions allowed accuracy to .5px).
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    Results: shapes are smoothed to 2.5px smoothness, even when the accurate / smooth adjustment preset is set to full accuracy.
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  • Moving, brush glitch in illustrator CC (moves to random places)

    When I use anything in illustrator CC ( hand, move, pencil, brush) the tool goes to a consistently random point on the far left or off the illustrator field completely
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  • Brush Problems with Illustrator CS4... the line does not draw with my mouse movement

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  • Can I copy Brushes, Styles, etc., from Elements to PS CS6?

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    3- Can the Brushes and Styles be copied over to Photoshop?
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    R_Kelly wrote:
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    You can go to the brushes or layer styles flyout menus and use replace brushes or styles.
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    http://help.adobe.com/en_US/photoshop/cs/using/WSfd1234e1c4b69f30ea53e 41001031ab64-789ba.html
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    Thanks for the links, I read through some of the info, but couldn't find what I was looking for...
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  • Mimic Photoshop's Bevel & Emboss layer style in Illustrator - how?

    Having searched for topics akin to my question, I have only really found tips on how to achieve a bevel and emboss on type.
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    Out of curiosity... and to better understand what Illustrator can do, I'd like to try both of your methods.
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