Michael Sanders

Hello... My name is Michael Sanders and I'm interested in learning how to animate (which explains why I'm here... Sheesh, is this the lamest introduction ever or what?!?!) I started with my copy of v12 and tried the first tutorial. Ran into problems immediately - when I render, the model isn't on the ground plane. I cannot figure out how the heck to get it to drop on the y-axis so that the shadow meets the feet correctly. Whoa, until just now I don't think I even KNEW what a y-axis was! Hope to learn a lot and produce some interesting work with this cool program. Oh, and in case it is of interest to anyone, I picked up the software at FOSE in Washington, DC back in March. Cheers, Michael