Any chance to get a educational version of maya without being at university or school ?

[Anonymous]

Hello,

any chance to get the 1 year educational version without being a student ?  I just discovered this program at a friends place and signed in immediately for the trial version and it really is a fun thing for me to work on cool projects and build things with maya. But unfortunately the trial is over in 4 days and i am not going to go to a university or anything like that. I just learned by looking at Youtube Videos. And now I have looked up the options of continuing the use of maya and the only option for me would be the 1 year educational version. So i just ask if there is a way.  I think i know the answer but maybe there are miracles happening. I would be totally fine with an older version of maya as well if that will be an option too.

Best Regards

Frank

[Anonymous]

of course not Autodesk makes this clear on their website on who qualifies for the student license

you will need to subscribe to continue to use

[dgorsman]

Look into the 'indie' licensing.  It's substantially cheaper than the the normal commercial license.  It's still the full product with somewhat tighter use requirements (read them first).

Quick edit: if you're into the design side more than the animation/rendering, look into Fusion360.