Animation program 3 replies

Im not sure if im aloud to ask about this or not (lock if im not and sorry) But I was wondering if I wanted to programme my own game what would be a good program to design and animate the models in it? On the basis that it would have similair graphics to games like Tzar and age of empires. ty.

3ds Max, Maya, Softimage XSI. Really depends on what model format you want to aim for and how good a modeller/programmer you are.

well atm im a complete novice with pretty much no experience. which would be more easily manageable?

I like to think Maya has the easiest user interface of the three. 3ds Max is alright but I find it clumsy to use after a bit.