I'm planning on making Minecraft Animations, What should I use?

Try Blender. It is a FREE 3D software. It is free to download. You can do Phyton scripting therein. I think Minecraft was originally made in Blender.
Visit Gryllus.net for tutorials by. Neal Hirsig.
http://gryllus.net/Blender/3D.html
When you are there, be scroll down the page. See YouTube for TONS of tutorials there.

Maya and C4D is good!