I see you've discovered BlenderGuru. The dude is totally awesome. Here's my old partyroid.
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Haha that's pretty cool. Yea I've wanted to make this asteroid, I found the site awhile ago but I hadn't really taken anything seriously till, well just now. Since I updated.
I was in a chat room at deviant art and someone from Pixar, and some other professionals were there, they recommended a few places to learn about blender, I think blender guru was one of them. They also recommended
http://www.cgsociety.org/ but the workshops on that site are ridiculously expensive. Though it's poultry compared to a college course. I'm on the fence when it comes to where I'm going to get some real information on this stuff.