I purchased the texturing DVD from Alias|Wavefront a few weeks ago and it was horrible. Too much talk and not enough work. He piddled around way too much. Wasted money basically. Just last night I loaded up two of the Gnomon Quicktime videos and they were unbelievable! One was around 32 minutes while the other one was 15 I believe. Talk about progress. I've never seen anyone move so fast in a tutorial. He obviously knew exactly what he was talking about because he knew exactly what he was going to do in the tutorial and moved around real quick like. I will deffinently be buying a few of those. The only problem I see is that it might not be suitable for people who are new to Maya. Most of the stuff he does is through hotkeys, so you can't watch where he goes in the menu to do something. I would recomend finding some simpler tutorials, studying them, get more familiar with Maya, then buy Gnomon's DVD work. Joining the VIP section here is a good way to accomplish this seeing as how most of their tutorials are aimed at either beginners or "intermediate" Maya users and because Simple Maya has such an abundance of them. There is a free tut section on the site, so check it out if your interested.