Back in the day, our flame guy was doing this all the time, before flame could import 3D meshes. You just need to get a little creative, good thing some of us are ;-)
timt
From: "Todd Kopriva" <kopriva@adobe.com>
>I.e can I build larger models in AE from simpler extruded shapes?
Yes. Absolutely. We've already seen some crazily complex examples. I won't say that we intended people to build entire mobile phones or video monitors from shape layers, but I'm also glad to see that they are. ;-)