Papabear. Welcome to Simply Maya. As Js said follow the maya in-house tutorials first, you will have less issues later doing other peoples tutorials once you understand those basics.
I too got into maya because of the "I want to learn that" attitude, but mine was a rather different story. I got into CGI because of 1 game, Half-Life 2. I started off in SoftImage, which was the app used by valve to create the assets for the game and after about 6 months switched to maya.
publicFunction (Chris) - Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
yea! 3D games, 3D animations and 3D modeling is something that makes me feel so excited,