Mr Lookey, ur comments were extremely helpful! i would start working on ur suggestions soon!

Can u suggest me where can i get the "VERY VERY BASIC" tutorials for creating shaders and understanding shading networks in maya??

Whenever i open a well made shader (like a shiny Gold shader) and click on the up and down connections, i see a whole lots of network jumpbled up connecting to each other through some input-output connection which makes my head spin with confusion.

i just want a good resource on net which can teach me the very basic of these shading network and understand the complexity behind it.

waiting for ur reply,
Gautam.