My honest suggestion here is to just take a step back and follow some tutorials. I'm not gonna pretend to be the authority on learning because I'm still learning a lot myself but Ive read a few of your recent posts and you don't appear to be grasping many of the fundamentals, resulting in you getting stuck, getting…
Everyone tells me Lynda.com is significantly better than Digital Tutors on some subjects. Steve Nelle taught me how to use 3ds Max, and there are few parts of the program (with the exception of animation) that I haven't learned from his videos.
I always found Lynda incredibly dull and boring over DT. The thing about DT is that the training is project based, and usually it's something cool and the instructors are industry guys (I think the Max guy works for Dreamworks). For example, the Intro to Max 2011 kit has you Modeling a spacecraft, texturing it, rigging it,…