Blurry, deformed vectors upon import

I was wondering if anyone could help me out?  I'm pretty new to After Effects and Illustrator.  I just finished using the pen tool in AI to draw a mascot for my videos, but while everything looks fine in AI, upon importing it inside AE it's blurred and deformed quite horribly.  I've saved AI files, eps, etc and imported with "import as: Composition - Cropped Layers" but nothing works. Can anyone help me?  Could it have been a mistake I made in AI?
Thanks in advance.

http://forums.adobe.com/thread/432370?tstart=0
Mylenium

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