Whats funny is Astrophysics is my major, and apart from demensions, acceleration of falling, thrown, fired objects, I don't think physics is that important when it comes to animation, I mean, there seems to be a lot of things that need to be considered first. And about the lighting, I think I am comfy with it, since I have been taking a lot of film classes. I could say, I want to animate a little, but nothing to severe, like the two towers golem, or anything, just maybe helping out some of my fellow film/video students with special effects and the such. The problem with taking animation classes is that Maya is not offered at my college. There is only so much that tutorials can teach.