Cool man, you almost made it sound like the Welcome to U K C S intro on the servers

And kudos on trying to learn all these programs, I've tried with 3DS MAX but my god the headache I get from trying to understand all those controls! Kind of like when I started with Photoshop.. Hm..
I've made an intro in Adobe After Effects myself, by looking at the awesome tutorials that Andrew Kramer has made over at
Video Copilot. They've also got a few segments involving the use of 3D programs.