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I have just started learning maya. Don't know much about it.

Hi there I've been using Maya for just over a year now I've started out using Maya 6.0 but now they just released Maya 8.0, talk about not being able to keep up with there software releases, anyway I've got a tremendous amount of good resources but here is a list of good websites you can use to help you learn Maya.

http://www.webreference.com/3d/
http://graphicssoft.about...
http://training.sessions....
http://www.3dlinks.com/Ga...
http://www.animationarena...
http://www.the3dstudio.com/
http://www.the123d.com/
http://blog.loaz.com/timwang/3d-art.php

There are a lot more but these will get you started, ok the absolute best way to get involved in this would be to join the best 3D community known on earth they are located here.

http://forums.cgsociety.org/

If there is anything you need help with this community of artists can and will help you, they are amazing and it is free to use.

One other resource is known as Gnomon, Gnomon is an online school of training material, and they have a tremendous amount of affordable DVDs that you can buy here is there link.

http://www.thegnomonworkshop.com/

Last but not least this is the best 3D magazine in the world and trust me if you keep at it one day you can have your work published in here and it will give you a tremendous amount of free advertising, who knows maybe one day I'll be seeing your work in it.

http://www.ballisticpublishing.com/index.php

I hope this helps you out. :)

WWW.SIMPLYMAYA.COM

have 2 video (8 parts) tutorials about fully modeling dog and human starting in nurbs -> then polygons -> then Subdivs for final tweaking