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Autodesk Media & Entertainment User Community is happy to announce that Softimage 2011 is now available for FREE for students on the Autodesk Education Community:
www.autodesk.com/edcommunity
Autodesk Media & Entertainment User Community is thrilled that free* student versions of 3ds Max, Maya, Mudbox and MotionBuilder are now available on students.autodesk.com! (Softimage coming soon!)
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I don't think it matters, as long as your institution is in Autodesk's list.
there are other benefitial software with the one year license which I will be making a copy of...I just dont know if I should remake the autodesk account again or renew to previous one..I did renew it few months ago...its just not working =\
EDIT: Thanks for the intel by the way. Really helpful and pain relieving.
Annually I mean.
Or is it even worth for self learners to signing up for them.
http://www.digitaltutors.com/09/students.php
I highly recommend Digital Tutors.
I must admit I haven't seen their XSI stuff but I used them when I was starting out with Max and Maya and their course are amazing.
I gotta be honest their new stuff hasn't been as good, but I bought a couple of their DVD's back before they offered the subscription model and they've been a valuable learning experience.
The thing I like about them is they walk you through EVERY bit of the project and you actually end up creating some cool looking stuff. None of that classic 'OK just continue tweaking points and in the next video we'll continue' and then you start the next video and the instructor has basically made something completely different and you just give up and forget about it.
They do skip some tedious bits in their more advanced courses, but even then they explain in detail what you should be doing.
Their 'next-gen' game character pipeline training is pretty good, goes through making a character right from base mesh in Maya, sculpting in ZBrush, polypainting and baking maps, then you can even go into their XNA training and setup shaders and make a basic little 3rd person game.
I don't work for them, honestly. But they really do offer some great stuff. I know there's plenty available for free but it feels much more like you've been 'taught' on a proper course with DT.
The fact the whole library is available for like $35 a month is amazing too, and the website works really well. Previously you had to buy the individual disks which were like $50 a time.
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Even if you know a bit about what you're learning with them already, I recommended watching the entire course and following it exactly, you'll really learn the subject inside out that way. I know when I followed their intro to Max/Maya courses it was pretty slow at first with the whole 'And this is the shelf, you can hide it like this' and 'to navigate, hold your middle mouse button' etc etc but it hammered it home and by the end I was super comfortable with it.
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I would advise going for a 1 month subscription first rather than just grabbing an entire year. They used to have this frustrating system where only annual/bi-annual subscribers could get access to new content and monthly subscribers had to wait 30 days, but they scrapped that I think and everyone has full access straight away.
Softimage XSI 2011 have the user guide from digital tutors on their website (not the student one) that you can download. Its about seven hour worth of video. Thats where I got this thought of going back to the DT.
That seven hours worth of video is pretty much I'd say a month period of learning so I'll think about subscribing to them for a month before considering to subscribe annually.
Thanks for the advice creation22.
EDIT: Its actually $45 a month for beginners to try things out. The 10% discount you'll get is when you are taking cg courses you must provide them with your timetable, along with signed letter by your student council.