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Alias Releases Maya PLE 6

Posted by michael on from the render-unto-caesar dept.

Renderhead writes "Alias has released the free Personal Learning Edition of their Academy Award winning Maya software. This limited version of Maya Complete allows students, hobbyists, and professionals to learn and evaluate the $2,000(US) tool absolutely free. The catch: all rendered output will be imprinted with a 'Maya Personal Learning Edition' watermark. Although Maya version 6 has been out for some time now, the Personal Learning Edition was only available for version 5 until now."

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  1. Re:But if your using Linux your outta luck by NanoGator · · Score: 4, Interesting

    "When last I contacted them they refused to believe you might want to learn their product on Linux and thus if you want Maya on Linux be prepared to shell out the $$..."

    Refused to believe one would want to learn on Linux, or wasn't convinced enough people were running exclusively Linux for it to be cost effective to make PLE available?

    I know it's fun to aim our pitchforks at people for not supporting Linux, but be realistic.

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  2. Re:yes yes, but to the important question allready by NanoGator · · Score: 5, Interesting

    "Then Blender has to do, for 'US' ... I guess ...."

    Blender != Maya. If you're just interested in tinkering with it, then that's a fine solution. If you're actually interested in developing a career, then you're far better off just dual booting into Windows and running Maya PLE. Frankly, the OS doesn't matter a whole hell of a lot when doing this stuff for a living. It's the wrong place to cross your arms and say "It's Linux or nothin!"

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    "Derp de derp."