Collection of Free Training Resources

This section is to compile free training resources for various applications, disciplines, and skill levels.

Maya

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Maya Toolbelt - Maya Toolbelt is a comprehensive series of training videos showing what each and every function available in Maya can do and how to use it.  It's great for beginners and as reference.  He updates it regularly, so subscribe to have it popup in your Youtube subscriptions.

Digital Tutors - DT is the goto source for comprehensive training, but it costs money.  They offer their Introduction to Maya 2016 course for free.  Here's a few of the videos [1][2][3][4][5][6][7]

Modeling Minute - David Lally is a 3D artist at Pixar, and he has a few videos geared towards beginners.

Simply Maya offers a handful of videos

EDGE-3D CGI - Has several Maya-related playlists.  The link is to their modeling in maya beginner series.  They have a wide variety of other application tutorials too.

Blender

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Note:  As the author of this post, I realize that there is a multitude of training out there for Blender, but I am not a Blender user.  Link your favorites in comments.

Blender Guru - Over 190 videos covering various topics.
Blender Cookie 
Blender HD
CG Geek
BlenderDiplom
33 Assorted Blender Tutorials

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More will come from this post.  Here is a few to get started.