Maya – my-animation

Autodesk provide some good 1-minute starter videos.

Autodesk Maya or 3ds Max are often used for modelling items which then need to be imported into a games engine such as Epic’s Unreal or Unity.

Issues importing an animated box to Unreal Games Engine:

Animating a skeletal mesh: https://docs.unrealengine.com/en-us/Engine/Animation

https://forums.unrealengine.com/development-discussion/rendering/57485-what-is-the-difference-between-a-static-mesh-and-a-skeletal-mesh

Sound for Unreal and Maya

Unreal requires sounds to be .WAV format (Maya allows ,.WAV or .AVI) as 16bit PCM. MP3 won’t work. You can use mono, stereo or a variety of surround sound options.

https://docs.unrealengine.com/en-US/Engine/Audio/WAV

See the my-animation page on converting sound formats and sources of free music and sound effects