Max allows you to create a skeleton and then attack it to you model/mesh this then allows you to edit and animate it with ease. In my animation i used this Technics to animate my AT-ST legs walking. I found it fairly simple. The problem with this was that when i was done i was unable to move the walker and have the legs move at the same time so i had to animate the world around it to make it look as if it was moving.
I created a Sceen were the tie fighters are chasing the X-wing i used a camera shot from underneath to show the speed at which they were all traveling.
To create the X wing decent i took the xwing model and moved along with a camera focused underneath it. this gave the illusion of it being much lager in scale the the object viewing it. I added lights underneath the X wing to show a reflective glare.
