I just wanted to get started here talking about Maya and how you can get started with this professional
product software, that is the industry standard, which is what we're going to be using in this course
to animate our characters and learn the animation process.
There's a couple of different programs now that Maya has.
There is a full professional version on this chart.
This is from Maya's website.
Prices might change over the years, but currently today this is the pricing that they have.
If you are just going to be creating for personal projects and indie games or as a student, there are
other versions available.
So the full version for Maya, there's no restrictions, no limitations.
That is the full version for about two hundred dollars a month.
They have a new version, which is the LTE version.
It's essentially the same thing.
There are a few special differences that you may want to check their website on it to get started.
But essentially for animation, everything that we're going to be covering in this course, the Mykelti
is a great option for that and it's a thirty five dollars a month.
And this is also made for indie game creators.
There is a price point limit.
You should check the site.
Just because they may be changing that throughout the years depends on how much you're actually planning
to make on your app or your game that qualifies you for the Maya LTE version.
That's basically if you're monetizing your game from their software, they want to make sure that you're
utilizing your your freelance and your work with either the free version or the LTE version or the full
fledged version.
So depending on what you're using it for, you want to make sure you have the right license as far as
students go.
If you have a student email, you are eligible for one full for a year and you can renew that each year.
Basically, Maya will will request from you, your student email and a copy to prove that you are currently
enrolled in a university or a college.
So it's a really great option if you are a teacher or a student with a student eligible.
Uh, basically a email and proof that you are currently enrolled in the school and you can basically
use that.
The only difference really with the school educational version is it doesn't when you save a file,
a pop up will come up and it will say that you're using a student or a teacher version of the software.
So the only way anyone would know that is if they were looking at your MIHA file.
But everything else is exactly identical.
So that gives you a little bit of an idea of how the software works.
There really aren't any restrictions in this course that we're going to be dealing with in even if you're
using an older version of Miah, it is definitely a possibility to use older versions of Maya as well
to do these courses and follow along.
So it doesn't really matter if you are in the latest version or a couple of years older versions of
Maya, you'll be able to still follow along and do these animation files.
And the rigs that I've uploaded are from in my Miami version, which will open up in multiple versions
of MIHA for you.
So with that, we'll get started on some of our other animation topics.