3DSMax free for 12 months then terminated? is this correct!

[Anonymous]

Hello

I am a lecturer at the University of Hertfordshire on the BA & MA Animation courses (2D, 3D, Games Art and VFX). I have a question regarding your new licence agreement for education. 

I have noticed Autodesk have reduced the student licence from being 3 years (enough to cover a degree) to being only one year, and there’s no explanation about whether they will then renew the student licence in a year’s time or let it die and then start charging students every month for it. So it’s a huge risk if we use their software because the student might have to pay for copies for their own computers in future which is not acceptable as they are under enough financial pressure and there is free software like Houdini and Blender. 

I have noticed Autodesk have recently changed their student licence scheme for their software (Maya and 3DSMax are the ones that principally affect our courses). Students can no longer get a licence until they join a university (until now anyone from the age of 13 who could prove they were studying somewhere could get an educational copy of your software). This means that the students who will join us in September will not be able to use Maya before they arrive. We have a requirement that they have to reach a certain basic skill level in the software before they arrive in 3D so that we only have to do a little of the most basic teaching and can move onto more advanced stuff quickly – which is highly beneficial to the students in the long run.

Finally, it seems that you only get warned that your licence has expired after it has expired? is this all correct or have I got the details wrong? I just need to know because if this is correct I have a period over this summer where I can retrain in different software for my courses moving forward so its future proof and a nicer experience for the students.

Any help in answering my questions will be much appreciated. 

[Anonymous]

this will answer some of your questions: https://knowledge.autodesk.com/search-result/caas/simplecontent/content/term-length-for-educational-...

the reason why the requirements changed is because too many people took advantage of the old system

how can autodesk charge the students they never ask for payment

[Anonymous]

Hi Thanks for your reply. 

What does a student need to do to meet "eligibility criteria". I hope it's not an educational email as you only get those at University. This would mean students who arrive for interview will not be able to download the software and we will be training them up from level zero. Normally we have kids that have been using Maya/3DSmax since the age of 13.

Best, Neil

[DarrenP]

read your other thread: https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/installation-licensing/licence-agreement-for-education-12-months-then...

you don’t need to post this in multiple forums

[Anonymous]

What will happen to all the non accredited schools?

Like some of the training academies? if not this could be tough news for many animation schools?

Will you have time to go through all the emails checking verification?