My final question is, what software is best to animate guns? You know, the recoil, bullet shells flying every where. This is going to be huge factor in the other part of my movie. Oh and its actually kind of funny cuz I was at the book store yesterday looking at a how-to book on after effects and it basically does all of that editing stuff. So what I probably do is kepp a notebook with certain notes on a particular scene and whats to be done so that I don't forget until the editing process is ready. As far as using bryce, I have that program to create sets or whatever but I think I might use blender to create my sets; it will all depend on the flexibility of each software.

PS: Thank you all for sharing info with me, its all very much appreciated.