Creating new shapes

What is the best way to create new shapes for motion. Should I make them in Illustrator or is their a place that I can download them?
Thank you
Vincent LeGrow

Yes, I guess I do what to make them in Moion. But I
was also wondering if I could download more online,
If you choose to import Illustrator files, you can find A LOT of them to download. Some are for free, like on Adobe's Exchange community. you can also buy them as royalty-free artwork on websites like istockphoto.com
because the library of shapes provided is very
limited.
Not only the library is limited, but also Motions shape editing tools are limited compared to Illustrator.
If you feel comfortable with importing Illustrator files, you may also check out Ampede's Layerlink plugin, which allows you import separate layers from the file, just like from Photoshop files. Without this plugin Motion can only import the flattened PDF layer.
There's also a free script for Illustrator written by Specialcase:
http://www.motionsmarts.com/downloads.html
It exports the curently selected path to Motion as a shape object.
Hope this helps.
Michal

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