For this project I require lots of different software, which I have previously covered, when I was updating my software I realised that because many of the existing software I have and use is a teacher/academic licence, this means they can be used for non-commercial work. This is currently ok as everything I am doing is only for my masters, and for studying and learning. However, should I continue to progress with this project and intend to release or sell it then the work would become commercial as it is intended for commercial or monetary advantage. This means that I could not use the current license I have and would either need to upgrade (which would be incredibly expensive). Because of this, I decided to create a spreadsheet with the expenses of each software I had planned to use along with the licence types.
A lot of the software I had planned to use is on a teacher/academic licence, but I have found free alternatives to most that work on an open licence and can be used commercially. Because of this, some of the software I had intended to be used may be changed for one of the free alternatives, this will save me time learning multiple software should I need to change them in future and stop the potential future cost associated with them.
The software changes would be:
ZBrush to - Blender
Autodesk Suite to - Blender
Houdini to - Blender and After Effects
Agisoft Metashape to - Full Licence
Adobe stays - Can be used commercially
Luckily there are lots of great free software available that I can use, Blender is a great option for me, as I have purchased the course to learn it and it also is a free open licence, it can also be used to create a lot of the different elements that I need meaning I would only need to focus on learning a single software.
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