The latest Personal Learning Editon of Autodesk Maya is awesome. Though I have no doubt that Maya 2008 Complete is much better I still love it. I am still learning how to use it though.

Download Autodesk Maya 8.5 PLE

Yes, Maya was a great 3D animation application that used to create
orangize object such as human, face etc.

It's hierchy-based structure let animator easier to maintain and control
the objects on the 3D world.

Plus, the most powerfull is it's mel script language. It almost done anything
if you knew how to programming. For an example of it was the clothes, one
of the addon feature that build-in with the Maya Unlimited version was
written by mel script. It show the power of it and it offer on the box without
fee.

But Autodesk haven't offer the Maya LE edition in-sync with it's production
release. It's bad for me too.