welcome to SM!

what were you looking to animate?

a good start to doing it would be to draw up a story board then you can figure out what sort of things you'll need. when you say 'it's basically a game' what do you mean...? are you saying you want to film it in a game engine? or are you wanting to render off a whole lot of stuff to composite in after effects?

as for points, you get points by buying them as explained in the sticky thread above