Autodesk are now giving their products away for free to teachers, secondary, college, and university students: http://news.autodesk.com/press-release/autodesk-consumer-group-and-education/autodesk-makes-design-software-free-schools-worl Seems to be pretty much everything including Max, Maya/LT, Mudbox and a ton of other…
This has been going on for a few years and is extremely clever marketing. You dont only get to use a few mainstream apps but the whole range. The idea is you can borrow the soft but you cant produce commercial work with the educational license. It takes quite a bit of effort to learn to use 3d software, the chances that…