What's funny is neither had I, and Steve was sorta vague on how you would make a material "not animated" he just mentioned that they were animated and weren't supposed to be and I had a hard time figuring out what he meant at first since the only thing I saw in the material editor that related to animation was a check box under the preview that wasn't checked. It wasn't till I started checking out the timeline that I stumbled upon the setting, which up till this point I hadn't even seen before.