I studied traditional animation at bournemouth and Poole college, I didnt learn computer animation untill I started working in games.
I doubt you could get into games anymore by just studying traditional animation.
I think Bournemouth Uni runs a computer animation course also Mid Glamorgan in wales is supposed to be good (all in the UK) but your best off doing a web search, its years since I was trained.

AS for finding tutorials and stuff on line just type in "Maya model building and rigging" or words to that effect in to Yahoo Google or whatever search engine, and you should find a fair bit of stuff or ask the same question on
http://forums.awn.com/forumdisplay.php?f=2

or look at this stuff this is what I found by typing in Maya model building and riging
http://www.tutorialized.com/tutorial...racter-Setup/1