
Sole Trader -vs- Limited Company - which is best?. Eight Rules to Survive as a Freelance Animator. Seven Rules to Start Your Own Animation Business. To see other posts about producing and freelancing, see the links below: In the meantime, of course, our students can get hold of a free student license for Maya, which is restricted to non-commercial use. You may check your automatic renewal setting by going to your Autodesk Account. The automatic renewal will be turned off before your annual subscription of Maya Indie expires. You must be based in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the UK or the USA.
Only one license can be used per user or organization. Your annual gross revenue from design work must be less than USD$100,000 per year.
Now the software license becomes affordable.
Say you get a small freelance job with a budget of £1,000-2,000. Autodesk is currently piloting indie versions of Maya so that recent graduates, freelancers, hobbyists and those starting out in the industry have a more affordable option to use the software.