Over at Simply Lightwave, Philip does a great stormy ocean tutorial.
Yes it's in Lightwave, but you can recreate the surface properties in Maya.

I fixed it. I wasn't getting the target symble on the RFoot, I must have not selected something right which seems to be a big part of my problems with this. Also that one selected on the pic above...

I don't know how I managed this one. I'm in too deep to start over. SOS! Help!

I guess the 12th times a charm. I fingered it out..
I was selecting the wrong things and grouping them.
Still not shure what the whiten thing is and why it's pointing up....

Maybe you can see what's going on from this picture.
This is from the begginning of the second video.
I'm not sure what that white thing is that's pointing up, but I noticed on the vid that yours...

Ok, I got it.

Mike, when you do the freeze transformation, do you have Joint Orient checked?

Have you seen that Christmas movie about the snowman that steals the flute? I forget the name, but this reminds of that.
I think it was done in Lightwave. Very cool story and animation.
Space...

Do you plan on doing the tire tread? If so, how would you go about that?

Cool, the Joint thing worked. What is a good default grid size?

As for PS, I don't have snap "on"
The crop only seems to drag out as a perfect square and then when I hit enter to crop it, it...