| abstract | - The Zimmer Twins is a Canadian animated series and children's website. The project was created by producer Jason Krogh and artist Aaron Leighton and is produced through Lost the Plot Productions Inc. A selection of the user-generated episodes is produced into broadcast shorts and air on Teletoon. Les Jumeaux Zimmer is the French-language version of the show and website. 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 backgrounds. They can also add their own dialog and on-screen text. New clips are occasionally added. The original Zimmer Twins website launched on March 14, 2005, with the show first airing on Teletoon in May. 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 1, 2006. A total of 120 broadcast episodes were broadcast in the 2006/2007 season and 32 more were broadcast in 2008. The site's population passed 200 000 on November 5, 2011. In 2008, the online audience voted to select the three most popular user-generated movies. The winners' movies were incorporated into a half-hour awards show special which aired on September 26, 2008 in English and September 20, 2008 in French. As an add-on, an Australian Zimmer Twins was produced from 2007–2008, starring James Arnold as Edgar, Alisa Koverick as Eva, and Luke as 13.
- The Zimmer Twins was a kids cross-media TV show created in 2005 by Jason Krogh and Aaron Leighton. It was distributed by Teletoon and zinc Roe design, and was funded by the Bell Broadcast and New Media Fund (otherwise known as BellFund). The show starred two kids (Edgar and Eva) and a talking cat (13) who all have psychic powers and live in a normal yet fantastical environment. The kids create the premises for each 1 minute episode via a website, where kids could make their own animations by using an animation clip library, they could chose to star their movie off with a starter and end it off with a cliffhanger, or they could just make their own movies from scratch. The people at Teletoon and zinc Roe design would then choose the very best movies and endings to starters and broadcast them with sound effects, voice overs, and other extras. There is also a French version of the Zimmer Twins called Jumeaux Zimmer which was also created the same year by the same people at the same company. Season 1 had 60 episodes, 32 English and 32 French. Season 2 had 120 episodes of each version. Season 3 had 30+ more episodes of the same version before ending the Teletoon versions as a whole. The Teletoon series ran from 2005-2008. In 2008, there was an online competition called the Golden Idol Awards, where kids that went on the website voted 3 of the very best episodes out of a huge selection of episodes, which was later announced in a TV special called The Zimmer Twins Present: The Golden Idol Awards, in which the premise is that the Zimmer Twins need to get to the awards show while it is still going (hosted by 13) before their "BIG Rockin' Finish", where the winners were announced on the TV special. As an add-on, from 2007-2008, there was an Austrailian Zimmer Twins that aired on Roller Coaster on ABC. Also, from 2008-2009, there was an American Zimmer Twins that aired on Qubo on NBC, Ion Televison, Telemundo, and the Qubo Channel before the whole series ended entirely due to lack of money. The main website still exsists.
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