I'll throw my hat in with the recommendation for Digital Tutors. I'm a subscriber myself and I've learned a TON from that site. They have a massive library of Maya tutorials. Just the fundamentals courses alone would take you weeks to go through. They also do a fair amount of character modeling and animation content,…
First off welcome to the coolest club in the castle. The biggest and most important thing you need to learn is how to teach yourself, with the rapidly changing nature of 3D work and video games a lot of what they will teach you in college will be antiquated, as well, knowing how to teach yourself will be a necessity once…
I just started my trial and have made it through 2 tutorials so far. There's so many more that I wanted to do though but I need a the premium account D; One of these days
Thank you both very much for the links and advice. Learning on my own time is what I'm almost forced to do seeing as how my animation program isn't very game design oriented so these tutorials and websites really help. I think my college has a free account for all students to the lynda website but I'll check to see if…
If you didn't know, you can get a 90 days trial (non-premium) at Digital Tutors if you are a student. When you are just starting, you probably don't need the premium. <3