Zimmer Twins
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| Zimmer Twins | |
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 From left to right: Eva Zimmer, 13, and Edgar Zimmer. |
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| Genre | Animated television series |
| Creator(s) | Jason Krogh Aaron Leighton |
| Country of origin | Canada |
| Language(s) | English, French |
| Production | |
| Producer(s) | Jason Krogh (Interactive) Anne-Sophie Breiger (Broadcast) |
| Running time | 2 minutes |
| Broadcast | |
| Original channel | TELETOON |
| Links | |
| Official website | |
Zimmer Twins is a Canadian children's website and broadcast animation project. The project was created by producer Jason Krogh and artist Aaron Leighton and is produced through Lost the Plot Productions Inc.
The Zimmer Twins is known for its unique format which combines online participation and broadcast delivery. Children are invited to create and share 1-minute animated episodes using a story editor and library of animation. The audience creates endings to short, professionally-produced story-starters. Kids tell their stories by choosing actions, characters, props and settings. They can also add their own dialog and on-screen text.
A selection of the user-generated episodes are produced into broadcast shorts and air on TELETOON Canada. There is a French-language version of the show and website under the name Jumeaux Zimmer.
The original Zimmer Twins website launched on March 14th, 2005. A total of 60 broadcast spots (30 English and 30 French) were produced and broadcast in the 2005/2006 season. By the end of the first season over 100,000 user-created episodes were created by over 50,000 registered members. A major revision of the site was launched July 1st, 2006 and a total of 120 broadcast episodes are planned for the 2006/2007 season. The website also underwent another revision at the end of February 2007.
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[edit] Regular Characters
- Eva Zimmer
Favourite colour: lime green
Favourite food: pistachio ice cream with mini chocolate chip sprinkles
Favourite sport: swimming
Favourite place to hang out: my room
- Edgar Zimmer
Favourite colour: red
Favourite food: Spaghetti and meatballs
Favourite sport: Go-kart racing
Favourite place to hang out: The Occult-O-Mart
- 13
13 is the Zimmer's cat. He can talk.
[edit] The Zimmer Twins Rating System and Crowd Pleasers
On the Zimmer Twins website, kids can watch an assortment of other movies. They can rate a movie by clicking on how many paws they thought the movie was out of 1, which means bad, to 5, which means almost perfect. They can also comment on movies to tell them how good movies are, or to tell them what to improve. If a movie has three or more ratings, the rating is averaged out and displayed on the movie. 4 or 5 out of 5 paws signifies a crowd pleaser. This means that it's a pretty good movie. Every day, four of these movies are shown on display.
[edit] Must-Sees
A Must-see is a movie chosen by the site editor that they think kids will enjoy. Kids have no control if their movies are must-sees. Every Must-see is eligible to be a telepick.
[edit] Flagging
If a kid sees an innapropriate movie, what do they do? They have the option to flag it. In order to flag, they must click the flag button on the bottom of the screen and tell the site editors why the movie is innapropriate and they'll look into it.
[edit] Collabo-writing
Collabo-writing is when a kid edits another kids movie and makes it their own. There is no control over kids collabo-writing other kids movies.
[edit] Telepicks
This is a list of Telepicks
- Edgar's Mistake by Saphire 6
- Pranking Edgar _zoom_
- Teleport Crystal by bat girl
- Fortune Dream by hey102
- Cookies! by Saphire 6
- 13's Rocker Side by jackjacob5
- Boredom with A Capital B by Wenrog
- Never Try To Cook by benji1
- Run! by starshine8
- 13 News AM by Falloutboy
- The Experiment Gone Bad by shsaop_x
- Never Lie! by wen-candy
- Bunny In The Sky by mommy71
- The Rock Concert by Suzie195
- Aliens Invade Earth by jiamin
- Wuzup Edgar Zimmer by cam da man
- Top Secret News by monkkid
- 13 is Free by foxzero
- Behind the Zimmer Twins by kileryoshi
- Freaky Thursday by lloommaa
- 13's order by _zoom_
- Chaotic Cat by sykick
- cat money by bat girl
- Party Cat by kcola
- WHERE'S MY BUNNY!!! by coolcat45
- 13 talks by jump4joy
- Rockstar Catastrophe by sykick
- Talent Show by kcola
- Rocken dreams by pokey pep
- Never trust a cat by Abby 1312
- Eva always wins by dsaur
- The Magical Map by sykick
- A Disappearing Lesson by Girl1
- Finding 13 by phunkychik
- Super Action Boy by jiamin
- Pickles by kileryoshi
- The Dance Off by PinkGal2
- The Crystal by stamp king
- Fooled! by phunkychik
- BEHIND THE LAUGHS by cam da man
- Invisibox by dsaur
- It was just a dream by 6teen unno
- Free at last! by miss bee
- Hide 'n' seek by bud
- drop in the park by puppet
- The Infomercial by Mewtwo_X
- 13's Button World by Fire Sister
- THANKS by mr. eye
- The brain switch by Seto4
- ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ by flop
- 13 talks by elyk_1995
- World of Wackiness by Moonman
- The Hypnotizing Box by Falloutboy
- They're MINE!!!!!!!!!! by tournesol
- Flower Disaster by MonkDanica
- Oh No by gacceber
- Teleportooza by lina.nik
- Stupid Stunts by abbaumohl
- torment by abbaumohl
- April Fools by abbaumohl
- The Crystal by skibunny
- Bye Bye 13 by Moonman
- Mystery Man X by kasm
- The End? by Falloutboy
- A BRAVA Surprise by skibunny
- Meow Mix of DOOM! by monkeyman
- The Voice! by Falloutboy
- Adventure in Outerspace by Q-man
[edit] Awards
Webby Award Nomination, Youth Website (2006)
Banff World Television Festival Nomination, Interactive Television (2006)
Horizon Interactive Awards Silver, Education (2006)
HOW Design Annual Outstanding Achievement (2007)
South by Southwest Interactive Awards Nomination, Education (2007)
[edit] Credits
Jason Krogh: Producer - Interactive
Anne-Sophie Brieger: Producer - Television
Aaron Leighton: Creative Lead
Luke Lutman: Interactive Designer
James Walker: Server Programmer
Ashok Modi: Server Programmer
John Park: Flash Programmer
Les Solis: Lead Animator
Lou Solis: Animator
Mireille Messier: Wordsmith
Kyle Sim: Audio and Video Editor
