If your doing this as a hobbiest, I'd suggest either the simply maya DVDs or digital tutors, if you're thinking of doing more with it, I'd point you to 3dbuzz.com, they have a good fundamentals set where you get 82 hours of training (don't be fooled by the name, it does more then just fundamentals), in which you do 3 projects, a bouncing ball type animation, a space ship abducting objects on earth animation and a mech battle animation.