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Chewin' It with Kevin ad Steve

Jason Piccioni, Visual Effects Guru

Chewin' It with Kevin ad Steve

Kevin Heffernan and Steve Lemme

Improv, Comedy

4.9749 Ratings

🗓️ 25 May 2016

⏱️ 94 minutes

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Summary

Ever wonder how they create visual effects for your favorite movie or TV show?  Jason Piccioni is a Visual Effects Guru at the top of the industry and he happens to be an old friend of Kevin & Steve. They chat about what visual effects are, how they are created, how one becomes a visual effects artist, making fake beer for Beerfest, making cars jump in The Dukes of Hazzard, TV vs. Film, Khaleesi's head AND MUCH MORE! ENJOY THE CHEW!

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey, everybody. This is Kevin Heffernan. Welcome to another episode of Chewit. On behalf of Steve Lemmy, thanks for joining us.

0:05.4

We got a great guest this week, our old friend, Jason Pichoni, and he is a visual effects supervisor.

0:11.5

And if you don't know what that is, you're going to learn about it. But in today's TV and movies, there's so many visual effects. and it's such a big part of filmmaking these days. And this is a guy who's at the top of that

0:21.8

business. And he's worked on all kinds of films, like X-Men, Alice in Wonderland. He's worked

0:27.4

on TV, like American Horror Story. And we know him because we worked with him on Beer Fest and

0:31.9

Dukes and Hazard and the Babymakers. He's a great guy, super smart. It's very interesting

0:36.7

if you're into filmmaking or you want to know more about filmmaking.

0:40.6

This is such a big part of the business now that he's a great guy to talk to and a great

0:44.0

going to learn from.

0:45.1

So I think you're really going to like this conversation.

0:47.0

All right, but first, before we do that, let's get to our other business.

0:50.4

We've got a bunch of shows coming up.

0:51.7

We're going to be traveling around. We want to let the two crew know where we are so that you can come see us.

0:56.4

June 16th, 17th, and 18th will be in Seattle.

1:00.1

Seattle, Washington, Parlor Live.

1:02.3

The next weekend, June 23rd, 24, 25th will be in Brea, California at the Bray Improv.

1:08.2

So if you're anywhere in the Southern California area, come on over.

1:12.1

Have a beer with us.

1:12.9

Say hello.

1:14.0

That's June 23, 24, 25.

1:16.7

The next month, here's a new one on the schedule.

1:19.3

We're going to be in Albuquerque, Albuquerque, New Mexico.

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