koko is right, BUT, you still can do it
as long as you keep your modeling simple. i mean you'll have to make something of boxes and other prisms and polygons that u can use with max b/c it'll take you for ever modeling things and then camera and lighting and all that other crap. i suggest recording alot of video with a digital camera, transfer video to computer, play with it and put it in 3d max. then add polygons and/or whatever you want. perhaps have more text flash with miniscule amounts of actual animation. this is my 3rd year trying to complete an animaton and everytime i make it hard for myself b/c i want soo many things to do that are diffcult for me to produce w/ my level of experience. this year we have quite a few ppl working on it and i've told ap erson to read as much as he can about lighting and another for camera and motion. what me and other friend are doing is just making models of everythign in animation. hopefully in a few days we can come together and put everything in order. anyways good luck! best thing to do is use tutorials for everything yo uwant to do but just dont get too complex! complexity will sometimes cause you to waste hours and even days in animation. and remember, sometimes it takes hours to render a few pictures in animation. so u might want to save 2 days just to render at end.