A prospect is interested in creating a web video series.  It's basically a talk show where 2 or 3 people will be discussing various products.  

They want to use a 3D virtual set as the background. We would shoot them against our green screen in our studio and composite them into this 3D environment probably using AE.

The 3D environment he's interested in is available for Maya (.ma, .mb), 3ds Max (.max), Autodesk FBX (.fbx) and as .obj .

It looks like there is a version of Maya that we could "rent".  We don't own, and I don't have experience with any of these programs.

  

Maybe it's possible to bring the .obj file into AE via Element 3D?

Can anyone point me in the right direction for how to achieve this, or at least help me ask the right questions?

Thanks,

Rod W.