Now Cartoon ‘Mashups’ via Nick

John Battelle posts on Nickelodeon allowing kids to edit Nick cartoons and make their own:

Nick has just made available on its Web site technology that allows young fans to make cartoon mashups of different scenes from favorites like “SpongeBob SquarePants” and “Avatar” and distribute them to their friends.

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On its TurboNick Web site, the network provides several scenes from its shows, including non-animated fare like “Drake & Josh,” along with graphics, transitions and sounds for them to point and click their way to an entirely new creation. Participants still aren’t able to put their own soundtracks to what they make.

Put this in the context of a new group of online video-editing tools (such as the one Yahoo! just bought, Jumpcut). What Nick and others that follow in its footsteps will create is a generation of filmmakers who make their own content and commercials. The implications are fairly radical for media and advertising down the line.

Here’s the release.