Welcome to Simply maya Ayenima! If it's basically modeling your into, then you allready have the basic skills you need from working with Max. All you need is to learn the tools and work flow with Maya. Maya provides quite a few help files for the beginner to work with. If you allready have Maya installed, press F-1 to acess the help files. Other areas to learn from are the free tutorials for beginners here in the free tutorials section. link More advanced tutorials require you to buy points befor you can download. Here is a link to the page that explains the point system. link The tutorials are well worth your time looking into, and I reccomend them for any beginner or experienced user.