actually I have not worked with 3d at much at all.... i fiddled with it on a friends computer years ago but that was a days worth of messing with spheres and cubes lol.... then I started to like the sound of animation and modeling and just the art of it! So I said what the hell might as well give Maya a try so I bought a DVD for polygon modeling a guitar and Ive learned most of my stuff from that. Getting a DVD from here soon to. Cant wait!