I failed to get mecanim to work in the two days I gave myself. I spend too much time on the book and moving forward there. I am currently in the middle of chapter four but have already read the entire chapter, working through the tasks within in the chapter (scripting) take a little longer as I have to type in the script, absorb it watch it execute etc.. The next chapter in the book is about mecanim but I do have the proper components and animations into an animation controller within Unity so it is taking a little longer than I thought but Friday we should be all thumbs up 🙂