Sure, you can do anything with 3D Studio Max, I took 3 years of it in high school, I use it for architectural design and animation, and my other classmates use it for character animation, we merge our projects together. I did the props and stage sets, they did the character developmenst and animation. We even made a sporty title...

I remember one dude, just for fun, he created a sex scene of two dummy models...heh heh...it's worth a laugh, glad the teacher wasn't there...