{"id":130,"date":"2009-07-15T18:20:02","date_gmt":"2009-07-16T01:20:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/kidsfirstnews\/2009\/07\/15\/qubo-highlights-kid-film-winners\/"},"modified":"2009-07-15T18:20:02","modified_gmt":"2009-07-16T01:20:02","slug":"qubo-highlights-kid-film-winners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/kidsfirstnews\/2009\/qubo-highlights-kid-film-winners\/","title":{"rendered":"qubo Highlights Kid Film Winners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.kidsfirst.org\/images\/blogs\/qubozimm.jpg\" \/>In response to the phenomenally successful first round of quboPic premieres that aired this past winter, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.qubo.com\">qubo<\/a>, the TV and online entertainment service for children and families, will debut a second round of user-generated animated short films on qubo Channel as well as on qubo\u2019s broadcast blocks on ION Television, NBC and Telemundo beginning Thursday, July 16.<\/p>\n<p>Thousands of young animators from across the country logged on to qubo.com to create short animated films using an innovative storytelling web application called &#8220;Zimmer Twins&#8221;.\u00a0 qubo selected fourteen films to be to be converted into fully animated mini-movies for national broadcast.\u00a0 qubo producers will re-master each film, converting it to high-resolution video with broadcast quality color, music and sound effects.\u00a0 qubo has also enlisted character actors to record the dialogue\u00a0 and narration written by the animators in their text bubble scripts.<\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;Zimmer Twins&#8221;, Edgar and Eva, are animated characters featured in interactive cartoons that kids can create from scratch, modify and share with their friends in a rich, safe web environment. The &#8220;Zimmer Twins&#8221; section on qubo.com includes storytelling tools, pre-made animated clips and simple editing instructions that tap into kids\u2019 inherent love of stories.\u00a0 The clips and storytelling prompts explore classic kid themes like science, animals, magic and adventure.\u00a0 The animation interface is designed around the basic elements of sentence structure, and reinforces reading, grammar, and writing techniques. After creating their stories, users can post and share their creations and even vote for their favorite user-created submissions online.\u00a0 In 2007, the &#8220;Zimmer Twins&#8221; won the International Interactive Emmy\u00ae Award.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe were thrilled with the response to our first round of quboPic premieres and can\u2019t think of a better way to honor and thank our viewers than by launching a second effort, \u201csaid\u00a0 Rick Rodriguez, president and general manager, qubo.\u00a0 \u201cWe are proud to showcase the creativity of these talented children on our air. The &#8220;Zimmer Twins&#8221; helps reinforce qubo\u2019s mission of engaging children\u2019s minds while promoting reading and literacy.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In response to the phenomenally successful first round of quboPic premieres that aired this past winter, qubo, the TV and online entertainment service for children and families, will debut a second round of user-generated animated short films on qubo Channel as well as on qubo\u2019s broadcast blocks on ION Television, NBC and Telemundo beginning Thursday, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10,6,9,5,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-contests","category-education","category-family-news","category-member-news","category-web-fun"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paS5I2-26","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/kidsfirstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/kidsfirstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/kidsfirstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/kidsfirstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/kidsfirstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/kidsfirstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/kidsfirstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/kidsfirstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/kidsfirstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}