TUTORIALS : Step-by-Step

PROG COURSE +
MAYA TUTORIALS

Prog Course - Getting Started

MAYA Workspace Basics

MAYA Polygon Primitives,
Transformations, Snapping

MAYA Colors and Materials

MAYA Lights

MAYA Animations, Playblast,
Quicktime Pro

MAYA Camera Animation

MEL TUTORIALS

MEL Script: Recording, Editing,
Testing, Material, Lights

MEL variables

MEL conditionals

MEL loops

MEL attributes

MEL commands

MEL procedures and functions

MEL expressions

MEL Text

MEL lattice box

OTHER SOURCES AND EXAMPLES

The MAYA Help Menu - very useful!

W A L K S C R I P T Copyright (c) 2000, Thomas Atwood
An nice example you can learn a lot from by analyzing it.
http://www.fluid3d.com/index.html?http://www.fluid3d.com/animation/walk.html

The following link unfortunately went offline
Further tutorials and examples can be found at the Alias/Wavefront site
http://www.aw.sgi.com/assistant_online/entertain/maya/how_tos/index.html

Extreme Programming
http://www.xprogramming.com/what_is_xp.htm

Digital Animation Effects using MAYA (link provided by Maiko - thank you)
http://www.4deffects.com (use Internet Explorer)
and from the following page you can download MEL code samples
http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Heights/1602/update.htm