It turns out that Masi Oka who plays Hiro Nakamura on NBC’s Heroes doesn’t just geek it up in front of the camera. In the video clip below, the visual effects supervisor Mark Kolpack talks about Masi’s background with the special effects technology that is used today around the entertainment industry. Before Masi’s big break on Heroes he spent some time as a coder for a special effects team helping them complete scenes that required custom work.

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