Just thought I'd throw these out there, in case you haven't seen them.
A couple little clips of AE in full-on, kick butt action, doing things most people have no idea it can even do.
This first one is the big Adobe presentation at NAB 2007.
Stu Maschwitz talks and demos an INCREDIBLE, full 3d animatic, that he created entirely in AE, 3d models, dynamic rigging, and all! Amazing!!
Stu is at the beginning of Part 2 of 2
http://www.adobe.com/products/creatives ... 7/webcast/
This other one has been floating around a while, but I'm just throwing it in here in case you haven't seen it. It AE being used at ILM to do some sweet 3D compositing on "Van Helsing".
http://www.vfxhq.com/overflow/vanhelsinginterview.mov