Animation basics with Microstation CONNECT?

If you have done animation in 3dmax, then you have basic principle. 

In mstn the workflow is called "animation".

As you need to learn: start from baby steps, avoid set the global target to produce Holywood film at once.

There is a book: animation in microstation. It was written for older versions of microstatjon, but you will get the main idea quite quick.

1) begin your learning experience from moving objects. Key frame animation there to help.

2) next understand what is the 'actor's from mstn point of view, and start moving 'actors'.

3) understand the camera behavior. And produce your animation from different cameras. Transition effects you mill do in external program for editing video clips. (That is much quicket).

4) understand the camera movements. So you could produce your animation at once.

5) then understand how you could animate "materials" attached to the objects.

6) lights - that is easier, as not many parameters that you could change.

Then complex animation and so on.

Mstn is less intuitive than 3dmax for animation, but mstn is still powerful tool. And good fun too.

I just checked on Learn Server, as I needed to refresh my memory for some animation work.
If you search for older V8i product training, you may find Microstation for Animation course work, still somewhat relative to CE.

Have a look see here:

http://communities.bentley.com/communities/other_communities/askinga/w/askinga/animation-rendering.aspx

Very old tutorials, but the basics are still the same.

Moving, scaling and/or rotating things by parametric description. Or moving things along a trajectory. Or keyframing: merging between situation A and B.

Meanwhile a traffic simulator has been incorporated, this is not in those tutorials.

I hope this helps you on your way