You can visit the Discreet website here http://www.discreet.com The Discreet company has tons of very expensive and advanced software that is used in movies and post/pre production for tv as well. If you want to try out 3ds max, you can get a 30 day trial of it and it is fully functional up to 30 days. Get their tutorial doc and support files and you can start to do some of the ones that are in the doc. It can be fun to learn.