A Basic Zoetrope Assignment

Here is assignment 14, a zoetrope. Basically an animation that happens when a part of the image is covered by the thick black lines. This is pretty basic, yet my inability to get Adobe Illustrator to work for me did not allow me to animate my first idea. After spending over 8 hours through out the week trying to get Illustrator to cut out the right lines, I just gave up and made this simple start animation.