This Talented Dad Made His Son’s Superhero Fantasies a Reality

Dreamworks animator Daniel Hashimoto has worked on movies like "Kung Fu Panda" and "How to Train Your Dragon," but his favorite films have been the ones he makes with his 3-year-old son, turning ordinary playtime into thrilling scenes right out of an action movie.

Hashimoto, who goes by "Hashi," works as a Visual Development Artist for Dreamworks, but really loves to create visual effects. "I've been playing with my son James, and he has a really great imagination," Hashi tells the Good News blog. "He'll always wake up and tell me the character he is that day."

"One morning he was being Iron Man and he was blasting everything in the kitchen," recalls Hashi. "And so I decided to film it and composite a laser in there."

He posted the video, updated with fancy special effects, on his Facebook page, and got an overwhelmingly positive response from friends and family. Hashi decided to keep making videos, sharing them on YouTube under the channel name The Action Movie Kid.

"The first couple of times [James] saw the finished video, he didn't know an effect was being applied, and he asks me, 'Why did I do that?'" says Hashi. James has since realized that his dad is helping add some magic into their playtime.

Hashi says the videos are a fun and creative outlet for both him and his son. His wife, Mandy, whom he met at Dreamworks, thinks they're great. "We encourage imagination and creativity in all we do," he says.

Mandy and Hashi have their second child on the way - so it looks like Action Movie Kid is getting a sidekick!

Check out all of James' awesome adventures on YouTube.

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