Interested in Animating For Mods, But One Problem...

[ReiPastDusk]

Looking around at all the different animation packs there are for the two big games, Skyrim and Fallout 4, have got me curious about doing animation mods myself.
However, there's only one problem that I'm facing...

 

...Autodesk 3DX Max.

 

I don't plan to pay $200 a month to mess with a program that I doubt I'm going to use all the time, and I know there's a 30-day trial, but I feel uneasy putting my credit card information into an account that I will most likely not be using.

So, is there perhaps an alternative for my piqued interest?

[MadMansGun]

it's blender or piracy, because you can't even get the needed version of max anymore (2010 or 2012)

[ReiPastDusk]

2 hours ago, MadMansGun said:

it's blender or piracy, because you can't even get the needed version of max anymore (2010 or 2012)

Ah, if Blender works then that should be okay!

I had assumed that Max was the only compatible animating software because a lot of animators I've seen use it based on screenshots of their untextured animations.