Thanks guys... ya i am reading the book inside maya. But this book started directly doing the project. my difficult is i dont know which tool is using for what. But there is no tool diagram in the book. and i dont have the maya help file. where i get these files... can anybody give a small beginning work on maya which i can understand and doing my self... and one more thing is i have a system p4 1.6ghz 128mb ram. if i open hypershade its get hang or the application is close. i know that was the ram prob. i want to know the min requirement of Maya.... Please....