Animating a character? (corpse floating in water)

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It's theoretically possible to animate the model through scripting, but it would be much simpler to make the animation using animation software like Maya or Blender. Both methods would be pretty much the same approach (defining positions at keyframes and interpolating between them based on the current time), but with the scripting method, you would have the added complexity of creating the system to do the animating as well.

What file would i choose to import to maya then? I guess the character entities concists of several files? Do i have to convert or something like that?