Illustrator AI doesn't get imported in After Effects

I am trying to animate a guy pulling the rope but when I import in After Effects, the guy is missing, also the rope and the text on the boat...

Here is the pic in Illustrator that I want to import

This is what gets imported in After Effects...

I deleted one artboard, so I have only one artboard left..but still, when I import the same layers are missing...

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Correct answer cristil17595578

Have you read how to properly prepare Illustrator files for use in AE? If not, you should -- you'll save yourself a lot of grief.

Yes, it helped me, appearently my document was not video/film, that was the issue!

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It looks like you've imported this as an image sequence - is that intentional?

Are you using any clipping masks in the Ai document? Those can sometimes create confusion when importing to AE.

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No, didn't import it as an image, at least not from my intention.. and didn't use any clipping masks, only used live paint -> merge

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Have you read how to properly prepare Illustrator files for use in AE? If not, you should -- you'll save yourself a lot of grief.

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