interview
AN INTERVIEW WITH Jason Busby Hi, my name is Leonard Halmrast. I have the privilege of doing this interview with Jason Busby, for CGArena. Jason is known to most as Buzz from 3D Buzz. Q. First can you tell us a little bit about yourself? Well, I’m the President/CEO of 3D Buzz, Inc., where I work hard to provide the world with professional quality training in 3D, programming, and a lot more. I live in Dickson, Tennessee, which is where 3D Buzz is based, along with my lovely wife Angela and my daughters, Heather and Meagan. Aside from my work - which pretty much consumes every aspect of my life – I enjoy flying (I’m a private pilot), scuba diving, and going to the movies with my family. I don’t get a lot of time to do these kinds of things, though; 3D Buzz keeps me very busy. Q. How did you get the idea to start something like 3D Buzz? Several years ago I took on a job as the Director of Animation at The Renaissance Center, a local learning facility that had started its own animation studio and training center. The classes we held were great, but I quickly became discouraged at how many students I had to turn away simply because they couldn’t afford to participate. I thought it would be great to start a website in which the training would be free to the public, but paid for by the software companies who were making the applications. The idea was fairly simple; we’d create training videos and host them on our site, and the companies who developed the software would be so excited about their software being covered that they would sponsor us. Things have changed a lot since then. The original idea for 3D Buzz didn’t really work out the way I wanted it to. We had to start charging for our training, although we work hard to make sure that it’s the very highest quality and the most competitively priced training on the market.
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Issue 6 Oct - Nov 2007
