 Hello there, welcome to GameDev Academy, I'm Shane and in this video I want to show you how you can go about getting Maya for free. Yes, that's right, it costs an absolute fortune, but Autodesk know this, so to allow people to be able to learn the software they allow student licences which gives it you for free for a whole year and that's good. So if we jump over to my PC I'll show you how you go about doing that, setting up the account and getting it installed. So if we look over here I'm on Google I would always recommend just going to Autodesk Education like so and we want this one here Autodesk Educational stuff in fact let's go here free software for students even better and then it shows you the software that you can get but we need to go to get started first to create that account to get us up and running. So let's go to get started and then I've already got an account but I'm going to show you the process of setting up a new one for this so we'll go to create account and then you need to put in some of the information so I am in the United Kingdom if I can find it I'm going to go set it up as a student account so you've seen that I am at university or post-secondary and date of birth I'll put into. Okay so that's that first bit done let's move on then you need to put your details in I'm going to blur these out because I don't want to be identity frauded. Okay so once that's all filled in let's tick the box to say that we agree to whatever stuff the telling us to agree to and we'll create that account and then it's going to send you that verification email to make sure that you are a real person so I've got my email open and we need to verify that account so we'll click on that and then click on verify email check this box to receive electronic marketing no thank you okay so now we're getting there so name of your educational institution so we need to put all those details in and then you need to put in when you're enrolled from and when you're enrolled to and then we can click on next so your account is now updated to access the Autodesk education community lovely so we can go to continue now I'd like to have a look at getting some of this software so what we're going to do is go for Maya is the one I wanted so let's click here and then we need to check on some of this information so that all looks right so if you click on confirm now you might see this tab here with the button that says confirm eligibility with your educational institution single sign on I don't want to do it that way so I'm just going to click on it and then close the tab so I didn't want to do the single sign on thing because that's not the process that I'm trying to show you which if you've got that your institution that's brilliant by all means use it but I closed the window that opened up and now I've got the option to upload a document instead so in order to do that you need something to prove that you're a student or wherever you are so I've got one of these which is a student ID card so if you've got something like that take a picture of it I've already done that so I couldn't now upload that so on this page here it's telling me what I can use so what I'm going to do is now click here to find that document put it on my desktop and it's called student ID so let's just type that in there it is and open I can see that student ID is now ready to be uploaded so then we can click on submit and then it uploads and hopefully it's all good so now um on there and they just need to verify that image that I sent them to make sure that I really am a student and then we're all good five minutes later so now that I've given it a few minutes I've had an email saying congrats you now have educational access to Autodesk products so what I'm going to do is just use the link in this email to take them to that so get products and for some reason it's still saying get started so we'll see um what happens when I try and get the software so let's go here for Maya it's asking me to sign in again I can do that oh you're confirmed so now that I've gone through that process you're confirmed congrats we've confirmed that you're eligible for educational access you've got it for 12 months get Autodesk software don't mind if I do so although in this video I'm showing you this is how you can get Maya you can also get 3ds max you can get auto card you can get the lot so let's get Maya get product then what you want to do is choose your version Maya 2023 is what this video is advertised as so we'll do that I speak English but there are other languages you can also get some of the older versions as well if you need them and then you've got some options you can just click on install or you can download it first which sometimes if you have any issues with your install downloading can work but I'm going to click on the install button clicking accept means that you agree to some stuff I agree I'm not nothing against it here we can see it's now downloading the the installer so this is not the whole thing it'd be a very small application if it was just 10 megabytes it's a little bit bigger than that we'll click that to open it do you want to allow this up to make changes yeah it's got to install stuff in it okay here we go Autodesk Maya 2023 this will replace your existing product so I've already installed this once already this is just for your benefit so I only need to install the update um but for you oh and also can't install it because I ain't got the room gosh darn it a few moments later okay I've just made some space should we try again retry oh I must have made enough space okay so um your install thing will look a little bit different to mine but install everything essentially you want the full package if you're getting Maya at all and then just click on install let it do its thing so that pretty much wraps up this video if you found it helpful for goodness sake make sure you click the thumbs up button so it can help other people if you like what I'm doing here then subscribe to the channel too and turn on the notification bell so I can harass you with all my video uploads and if you are downloading the student version of Maya then there's every chance that you're also learning it I'm going to pop some links on screen for you I've got a 15 minute introduction to Maya and a more in-depth four and a half hour full tutorial course both of them are excellent in fact if you search YouTube just for Maya tutorial you'll find that my videos always kind of pop up in the top three or four anyway that's just how goddamn good they are so uh check them out all right that's it then thanks for watching I'll see you in another video another time goodbye