suggestion on a good animation software

[HawainPanda]

im looking for a program, that can allow me ( or a bunch of programs if i am able to port their files to each other) to creat an animation vid...i wanna do something like the battle of helm's deep, i have no clue where to start, someone offered bryce 5, is that only for pics? or animations?

*i know graphics isn't gonna nearly as good..or good period, but i wanna try
thx!

[Jako]

Some programs that I no of that do animations are:

3d Studio Max
Bryce
Image Ready
Flash
Cinema 4d

[parallax]

You may also want to look at LightWave 3D by NewTek.

[chilly1]

Macromedia Director, import numbered sequencial images and convert directly into a flash movie...or Gif ect.

Corel xara down and dirty GIf's