From The Arizona Republic:
Sammy Muller of Gilbert is only 9 and already a filmmaker.
It's all thanks to qubo, the television and online entertainment service for children and families, which encourages children to create short, animated films using a storytelling web application called Zimmer Twins.
About 44 weeks ago, Sammy heeded the call and created "The Zimmerlympics 1" with the help of the application and his imagination.
It's only 45 seconds, but it was a winner and Sammy joins 13 others nationwide whose films were selected to be a "qubopic" and shown nationally. Sammy's qubopic will make its world television premiere on Thursday.
Sammy's film has the Zimmer twins Eva and Edgar participate in an Olympic-type running contest, first through a yard, which Eva wins; and the next beyond the yard, through a strip mall, a park area and then the deep forest.
They only stop when Eva gives up and faints into the undergrowth, with Edgar following her down.
"It's funny because they faint," he said, with a smile.
The animation interface Sammy uses is designed around the basic elements of sentence structure and reinforces reading, grammar and writing techniques.
His father Bart said that Sammy spending time on the computer with this child-friendly and safe Web environment was better than him watching TV.
More at link: http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/2009/07/13/20090713gr-zimmer0715.html
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