[Iain De somerville]

Forgive me Aharon, I am a bit of a newbie with after effects. Hence i am at the very first Creative Cow tutorial as listed by adobe media player. As you say at the begining of the tutorial our two bird layers you hve created with Illustrator and being a creative person myself I decided I would create my own bird layers to animate. This does not at irst seem to be a great challenge. After all; two layers, very simple design. 8 hours later I find I have still not completed the task. I have saved, exported, checked in, imported with after effects, opened with bridge and done petty much everything I can think of to export these two simple layers to after effects so I can begin following your tutorial. I have downloaded your tutorial files and even used the AI file in there to see if my project was set up incorrectly. I have now plummeted into complete dispair at not even being able to start the first tutorial. How did you get to the project start?