Licenses for academic usage

Report · Mar 22, 2023

To who may concern,

I am an undergraduate student at National Tsing Hua University. I am currently working on a project that involves generating a set of point cloud datasets. We plan to capture avatars and animations from Mixamo.

According to the following website, it says:
You can use both characters and animations royalty free for personal, commercial, and non-profit projects including:
- Incorporate characters into illustrations and graphic art.
- 3D print characters.
- Create films.
- Create video games.

https://helpx.adobe.com/creative-cloud/faq/mixamo-faq.html

Could you please clarify whether it is permissible to post-process the 3D models and use them for academic research purposes and share them with my colleagues?

Thank you for your time.

Sincerely,
Yuan-Chun Sun

Report · Mar 23, 2023

yes and no

first of all "set of point cloud datasets" tends to be used as a way to 'teach' computers to learn and that would be against the Adobe rules ; see

https://wwwimages2.adobe.com/content/dam/cc/en/legal/servicetou/Mixamo-Addl-Terms-en_US-20210623.pdf

however that extra little rule is not a Mixamo or Fuse but an Adobe one i.e, you can use the older Fuse/ Mixamo assets for this type of learning and they are free in places like Steam... Mixamo is a rigging software not animation software so you need to use one of the open 3rd party riggers to work around that