nVidia released MAXtreme 7, an application tool that speeds up 3ds max performance 134% on Quadro graphics cards. http://www.nvidia.com/object/maxtreme_7.00.03
Theres more to it than can be said in a forum post, but it is something can be learned in a couple days. If you follow the first half of this series you'll know how to do it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzHn_4ByyjY&list=PLgala72Uap1oR7E5iIfnuSLpuVY49BwHuBasically a simple IK setup for the collapsing part - if you don't…