need help on were i should start
 

I have been posting for a while trying to learn more about Maya. I think I am a mess I go from one thing in Maya to another and need tutorials to get me started. All I want to know is ware I should start and end in Maya so I can learn it the right way. Thanks.

hi
-i think you should learn maya at your own pace, and especially in the beginning don't be to hard on yourself when you compare your work with that of another, most of the times people who post here are doing it much longer and some even do it as a dayjob( lucky bastards:p ).
-also there are people who say that the object that they've posted is their first thing they ever made in maya. in most of these cases people are lying about this, because when i and i think most people here got started with maya they didn't get those clean topologies. if they lie to themselves i personally don't care but i think it could discourage other people who are just getting started perhaps maybe you to.
-don't try something to difficult in the beginning, start your first project for instance with the bouncing ball==> first create a sphere, then texture the sphere and then animate the sphere.
try to practise everything on the same level. when you've become an intermediate experienced modeler try to reach the same expirience at texturing, animating, lighting etcetera.
hope this helped

wow ok thanks and yes some times i do look at other peoples work and feel like i need to do that so then i try and jump in on somthing in maya that i cant handle so thanks. And now i am going to do the ball tutorial thanks.:attn:






PS. i have been doing maya for 3 years and now i am sttarting over i must be crazy:headbang: