Hi this is Hashi from Action Movie Kid, and this is my Field Day.
I'm Hashi. I'm know as Action Movie Dad on YouTube,
and I have a channel called Action Movie Kid.
The first video on YouTube that did really well was
the danger of wet floors video.
The danger of wet floors video became an animated gif
on Reddit and it made it on the front page, and then it got picked up by BuzzFeed.
It was a very
quick an interesting turn around for these videos that I'd only put on YouTube
to share with my family.
So I've been really into computer animation and making videos all my life.
Done it since I was in second-grade, and eventually I worked that into a career
at Dreamworks where I did some visual effects.
While there I also became a new parent
and was taking a ton of video of my son.
The process for making one of the films is really just engaging in a playtime with James.
And as soon as I see that is doing something that I could imagine being enhanced by graphics,
I'll try to sneak my way in there and film.
The most genuine reactions are usually the best videos,
and the more I try and coach him the less well they turn out.
So on field day we made this really great video and it's all about what it's like
raising two kids. But not just raising two kids, one of them is Action Movie Kid.
Who some of you know, and one of them is my new baby Daughter
who has legitimate superpowers.
Field Day was a really fun experience because i'm used to making these,
because i'm used to making these
10-20 second clips because I usually just have one the visual gag but i wanna get
out there
for field day they invited me to do much more epic video which is really great.
So I brought along my
really close friend and a really clever writer named Matt Harry. It was very
different than that my usual process which is filming something to my iPhone
plugging it into the computer and I can pretty much post straight to
YouTube. But also really made us try to
step up our game in terms of the visual effects.
No using your powers around the baby. In this 6 minute video there are
49 FX shots. One of the most involved effects in this movie was that
end finale when the baby lifts up the Jeep off the ground
and then burst it into a bunch of pieces. Now on set we did have some practical cars that represented these.
and we also have his digital doubles for the scene whether truck explodes
within took the 3D models and broke them apart bunch of different component
pieces that could all fly out.
And also from the writing standpoint Matt did a really good job of
creating a story that had to be very very tight but also
implied all these wonderful things but together in a neat way.
I think my favorite part of working with field day was
just the openness they had to any idea
and they even came back to us with let's go bigger
let's get a big cameo actor you know for the role of the villian.
and really just open it up to let us explore
whatever we wanted to do. I'd thought of this fantastical seen of a SWAT team arriving
at the house and
my baby daughter being able to fight off all these bad guys
but this is just that teeny thought and I never dreamed that
within a few months i'd have real bunch of guys in uniforms on my lawn with the
Steadicam and a crew surrounding it, sound, and a real actor.
All that stuff coming together was really a dream of mine.
It was something I'm practically ruled out, because of my abilities at the time.