Yes you can animate it. Just learning how to use soup to shatter objects should help you out a bit as well. Esp if you intend to shatter into 100s of bits.
It's a steep learning curve but you'll definitely learn something just trying to get it to work. Thats if you don't throw the computer out the window first
David
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