What software can I get on my Macbook Pro that will be ideal for 3D movie making?

Im looking to make my own 3D animations and turn them into a mini series.
I don't want to use other games as a platform.
I guess i would like to start off from scratch, create my own people, space ships, uniforms, planetary terrain etc...
If anyone could help me out I would greatly appreciate it.

The Apple Hardware Test is all that Apple makes available.  There are third-party programs you can purchase and use, such as Disk Warrior to examine the status of the hard drive.  DW is pretty decent from my experience, but when you get into the latest of the Mac OS X versions there is so much optimization already being done by the operating system you do not necessarily gain a great deal with it.  I still keep it around, though.

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