Thought I'd chime in here, since I have bought a lot of training material. I think you could probably skip the digitual tutors cd's. The pod racer training cd is good for people that are fairly new to Maya. It helps you get around the program while creating a simple pod racer. Price is great, and great for beginners, but if you've purchased VIP vids from here, these will not show you anything new. I first bought a couple of Gnomon tuts. And it's true, very difficult if you don't know maya well. But once you do, the stuff is amazing. There was a lot of stuff that they skimmed while showing something and I'd get lost cause I didn't the shortcuts etc.. that's why I bought the dt cd's. Now the Gnomon stuff makes sense, but way pricey in my opinion. I also bought 3d buzz Maya video 1&2 on rigging/skinning. At the time it was good, but I've since bought books, used online tuts on rigging, that I don't use Buzz's techniques anymore. Still, it gave me some good info. So, what's next? Well, for me, I'm looking for some training material on Character animation.. Hardest part to learn in my opinion. Kevin has mentioned that those are on the way! Woohoo! for you, it depends what are you'd like to focus on. This is especially important if buying Gnomon training. Mainly because they go into detail on each aspect, that it requires buying part 1,2,3 etc... to get all the info on that area, which will cost you a lot of money. So if you want Gnomon, you should concentrate on certain are. Example: you want to be a modeler. Buy polygons 1.2. and organic 1.2. etc... It won't do you as good to buy polygons 1, Kinematics 1, dynamics 1. Not the best thing to do if you want to learn more broad areas. For that, I'd recommend a book like Fundamentals 4.5 or Maya Savvy( I don't have either ) So it all depends what you want to do. Don't know if this helped but to recap. for broad learning: Books, SM tuts(which you already have) and SM tuts coming soon Specific: Gnomon DVD's -I only suggest if you buy a few of one area ie. modeling. or Dynamics not one of each. Rigging: There's so much online stuff. If looking for really advanced or production type rigging.. I suggest A|W rigging DVD by Jason Scheifler(sp?), one of the animators of Gollum of Two Towers movie. whew, I'm done, George