Hi, my names Larry, and I've decided to start working with Maya. I've learned to use Photoshop, Flash and 3DS Max to a point where I consider myself near expert.

Unfortunately, Maya seems to be too hard for me to grasp altogether. I found a book I bought on Maya a few years back, to be more specific, this one:

https://www.amazon.com/Maya-Complete-.../dp/0072227184

This book is great and all, but it's still really hard for me to understand, I tend to get caught on the most minute of problems, and then can't find that issue to fix it.

So I've decided to look online for help, and at the moment I'm mainly targeting Modeling tutorials. Sadly, most of the tutorials I find are geared toward people at an intermediate level, and can easily recognize any of Maya's functions.

So what I'm asking for is some easy Maya Modelling tutorials for a complete newbie to start out on. Preferably something interesting, so I don't lose the incentive to create something and ignore the program for another month or two. Any help is greatly appreciated!