Students and Graduates

The student license program is an opportunity for students to experiment with Foundry products, free of charge. To qualify, you must be enrolled full-time at an eligible school or university. To be considered a full-time student, your program must meet twice a week and run for at least five months. Students enrolled at schools with active Foundry classroom licenses will qualify for a free annual student license. If your program doesn’t have Foundry licenses but you are a student, you’ll be eligible for our discounted student license for $99 / €89 / £79.

Yes, if your school or university isn’t eligible for free student licenses, and provided you’re a full-time student, you can still apply for a discounted student license for $99 / €89 / £79.

You can submit a support request form with Proxi.ID.

Students can purchase a student license directly from our website. We use a third-party verification application called Proxi.ID to verify your student status. You’ll need to create or log in to your Foundry.com account. Once logged in, you can apply for the student license. For more details on the Proxi.ID verification process, please see our support article.

If your student license expires and you’re still in full-time education, you can apply for a new one-year license. You’ll be able to reapply within 30 days of your current student license’s expiry date. Once you graduate, you can either purchase a one-year graduate license or upgrade to a commercial license.

Students are eligible to purchase a graduate license from six months before, until six months after their graduation date. A graduate license gives you the same product access as a student license and is valid for one year. You can apply for a graduate license online.

Please email us at educationsupport@foundry.com and we can discuss options with you.

To upgrade to a commercial license, students need to have owned a student license or graduate license for at least one year, and you must purchase the update within six months of your current license expiring. You can apply for an upgrade to a commercial license.

We offer a 70% discount on the first year of your subscription when you upgrade from a student or graduate license to a commercial license. After the first year, you can renew your subscription license for continued access to the software at the normal commercial subscription price. You can find all the pricing for the upgrade.

Non-commercial licenses are for home use only, so they cannot be used in a commercial environment or in schools for teaching. Once a project is started in non-commercial, it cannot later be transferred to educational or commercial versions due to file encryption. Projects would need to be started from scratch in full commercial versions. Our education licenses provide full, non-limited versions of the software. This means students can easily transfer files between home and school machines and take their work with them into the industry. Education licenses also allow students and graduates to upgrade to a commercial subscription license at 70% off the commercial price for the first year when their student licenses expire.

To find your system ID, you need to download and run our Foundry License Utility (FLU). The system ID is the 12-digit code displayed along the bottom of the FLU window.

Please visit our support article for install instructions for your student or graduate activation code.

As long as you have active maintenance, you will have access to all the latest versions of the software by re-downloading the product from the Product Downloads page here.

You may not use a Student license for commercial work. You are permitted to use a Graduate or upgraded commercial license for commercial projects.

The Nuke, NukeX, Nuke Studio, and Mari licenses are set as log-in-based. Log-in-based licenses are tied to a single foundry.com account and can be activated on up to two machines simultaneously. There is no need for license transfers - users can deactivate from one machine if they want to use the license on a different machine. Log-in-based licenses require an internet connection for initial activation and refreshing of licenses (max 37 days offline).  The Katana license included with the Education Collective is node-locked and can only be installed on a single machine. If you have a node-locked education collective currently and would like to change to log-in-based to access on a second machine, please complete the license migration request here.

No, educational licenses are only available as the full Education Collective bundle.  

Nuke and NukeX are part of the license for Nuke Studio. If you want to use Nuke or NukeX, you can use the Nuke Studio license for access to those two products as well.

If your school doesn’t appear in the drop-down when using the school search, then you can still verify your academic status by requesting a verification code. To request a verification code, click on the ‘Can’t find your school?’ link below the search field and enter your school email address.

If you receive an error stating that your email address is not recognized as coming from an eligible organization, please submit proof of eligibility via Proxi.id or contact the Proxi.id support team.

If you cannot automatically prove your affiliation by using your organization credentials or email domain, you can submit documents to prove your eligibility.

No. Please only submit your request once. If you submit multiple times, it flags your recent request as the newest one and can delay the response time. You can submit a support request form with Proxi.ID if you have questions on your application. 

Currently, there is only a 12-month option for our educational licenses. We do have 30-day trials available if you need a shorter-term license. The trials can be found on the product pages.

No. The graduate license cannot be renewed. You are eligible for our 'Upgrade to commercial' discounted license.

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After you have completed checkout, your student license will be added to your account online. Please login to your Foundry.com account, navigate to ‘My Account’ then the ‘My Orders” tab on the side bar menu. Click on ‘view order’ and you will find your activation key. To install the education collective license, please use your activation key and follow these instructions: How to install an education collective licenses

Yes, please complete the license migration request here.
 

Yes, please email us at educationsupport@foundry.com to request a node-locked license

Katana is not currently available as log-in-based. As it is included in your education collective license, we wanted to ensure you still have access to Katana. We issue a Katana activation key and Katana render key with your license so you can still access it.
 

Details on our different license styles can be found here.

Please complete the license transfer form and submit it to educationsupport@foundry.com.  If you are changing to log-in-based, please complete the license migration request here.