I recently found out about http://www.lynda.com/. This is the greatest website ever (can you tell I’m a little excited about it) If you’ve ever struggled to learn new software applications, this website has incredibly well organized video tutorials on all adobe software including flash, Dreamweaver, Photoshop and Illustrator. They even have tutorials on modeling, rigging and animation in Maya.(which I’m very interested in) I’ve worked with books in the past to try and learn these systems, but these video tutorials really cater to my learning style. There are two plans; the basic $25 a month plan that just lets you see the videos or the $37 a month plan that allows you to follow along the tutorial with the exercise files. If you compare this to the cost of a 3 month college class, this is a tremendous barging. It seems like all the instructors are experts in the applications they are teaching. I’m going through the flash tutorial at the moment; I’ll make sure to post samples of my work when I finish the tutorial.
