Re: slow AnimatedShape

Would you only need the particle animation (pos rot)...
Than you can also you pFlow to bake that animation out to the real 
objects. Check out bobo's site (scriptspot.com/bobo -> go with the flow).

I'm using pFlow alot to just generate the animation wich I can bake to 
my objects. Someday I'll write a scripted tool to do this.

But I think that's the best of both worlds, since animated shapes is 
indeed too slow to work with. But pFlow animations aren't all that bad 
really.