Originally posted by gster123 I agree with Coldfire, If you've spent lots of money and time honing your skill, theres no point giving it away for free otherwise your not going to get where you want in life. Maya is a huge learning curve and I think that everyone (on here especially) will tell you the basics to get you going. On the other hand trying to expalin, even show, something complex is very hard and therefore people shy away from it. what an ignorant statement... the people that put up free tuts on the web spent their hard time and money to learn and they are sharing it for free. free plugins to free mel scripts.. those are other people's best kept secret, it makes their workflow easier... but they share it. Mirek03, thiose very tuts you are learning from, are peoples best secret... i guess you all say you wouldnt share because you've never watched a free tut or googled free tuts or dwnld some free scripts/shaders etc.... if whenever you asked for help and people would say "i cant help cuz i spent time and money to learn" then im sure many people wouldnt learn. i dont want to be picky, and i know you dont mean having to teach someone to the minute detail, but sharing in this field is a 2 way street. whenever i share a technique with a co worker/or friend they in-turn share something with me; and i always feel compeled to share with them when they do teach me a new trick. i think in this profession, people dont steal "techniques", they apply them. you cant compare this with other fields [i.e. business, banking, or other coporate jobs] i feel the cg industry is a big collective mind at work. we share our best knowledge, we hence develop even more superior knowledge, and so one. . i totally disagree with the last few posts.