Live Paint | Learn Illustrator CC | Adobe TV

This video from Adobe Illustrator CS6: Learn by Video, presented by Chad Chelius and Angie Taylor, explores Illustrator's Live Paint feature, which is fantastic for creating colored artwork from open and closed shapes.
http://adobe.ly/ZGj9YV

Where can we get the exercise file for this video?

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Firstly great tutorial.
Anyway I initially started a thread in the forums which lead me here regarding the use of opacity masks, I'm having real problems finding a solution to my specific problem.
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The second is I have an object with a linear gradient applied and I want to add yet another gradient just to a certain part of that object in order to make it fade out in a certain way.
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I think I know the solution to the problem (for me anyway)!
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