OK d00d
Lets start at the start man, Ill put up some links for you regarding 3dsmax, unfortunately for you, i aint used milkshape, so i have NO tuts for that prog, i started straight out on 3DSMax... However, from what i could glean, the principles are the same. Now, do us all a favour and actually post a descriptive heading for your thread, otherwise you may miss out on getting help from ppl who aint interested in answering some topic with nothin but ????? for a heading. I'll aslo put up a link to a modelling tut that shows you how to start making a basic manga style character, its extremely helpful, and id still be stuck at square one without it, the 3rd link ill post is another site that actually has tutorials for a few different aspects of modelling/skinning, and some basic animation.........
Thanks to the ppl at all these sites btw, without them, i'd be stuffed
Hope it helps, and remember me when youre famous d00d
http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/item/0,,1047962-123112,00.html
http://www.planetquake.com/q3manga/oldsite/modelling_tut1.htm
http://www.planetquake.com/polycount/cottages/alcor/