Action Movie Kid is an action web series created by Daniel Hashimoto. It contains his son, James, as the main character. Each clip is a short home movie of James playing, when something dramatic happens: explosions, death-defying feats, and other crazy stunts. All of the dangerous effects and stunts are added in post-production by Daniel Hashimoto, who is a freelance visual effects arts and a visual development artist at Dreamworks Animation. He uses Adobe After Effects to make the short videos for YouTube.
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The web series has 479,017 subscribers on YouTube and 194,321,810 views as of this update on Mar. 28, 2016.
Book Adaptation
There will be a book adaption based on the web series in May 5, 2015. According to James in the book's trailer, he will fight a gooey monster and claims to be a bedtime story
Commercial Success Inspired by
In June 2014 The Escape Pod Ad Agency contacted Daniel Hashimoto to co-write and direct commercials for their client Toys"R"Us. In addition to writing and directing Hashimoto also did much of the VFX work along with Eric Miller Animation Studios.
Awards
2014 Streamy Award - Visual and Special Effects | Winner
2014 Streamy Award - Action and Sci-Fi | Nominated