Maya student to Blender
ive been using the student version of maya for years now and am trying to learn to use blender. If a model was originally created using student maya, then later imported to and edited in blender, are you allowed to sell those models? I have old models that were originally made in student maya a while ago and would like to touch them up, i was just wondering if id be able to sell them in the future.
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You accepted the contract with Autodesk when you used an edu version of their software. Basically, to use it only for learning, not for production.
Autodesk may be a large Corp, but their employees need to eat, just like you do. Shorting them is akin to others shorting you as a future game developer.
Another way to put it... how would you feel if people pirated your models?
In practice though, no one would likely be any the wiser. Except you, and your conscience.
An easy way to solve this is to just remake those models from scratch. You've likely learned a ton since then, and can apply that knowledge towards learning more about how Blender works.
Also, we don't condone piracy here, in any form. Does it happen? Yes. Can we talk about it here? Sure. Do we promote or suggest people skirt software contracts so they don't have to pay? No.
That said, after this post, if you try to, it will look bad for your career anyway.
My suggestion, they are a few models and you're likely to make many more -- specially now that you've picked up Blender so most likely as you learn it you'll create a few models down the way. Don't think about them too much. If you want to really use them, then recreate them inside Blender from scratch. That or put them up as a portfolio piece or maybe even a before/after article that might talk about how you can touch up an old model or a tutorial.