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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'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,…
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…