Shane/Behind the Scenes

Television Series
Shane is a fictional streamlined tender engine created by Ian McCue and Andrew Brenner.

In 2016, Shane made his debut in the movie, "The Great Race".

Since 2018, Shane has been voiced by Shane Jacobson (UK/US) in the CGI version of the series on both sides of the Atlantic, respectively, thus voiced with a matching accent to his home country. Matthew Richardson would voice Shane in the Thomas' Aussie Football Adventure series, and Tim Bain would dub over Jacobson in the Meet the Characters! shorts. Richardson's perfdormance gave Shane a distinctively clearer voice, while Bain's performance remained closer to Jacobson's, only without the scratch.

Shane is based on the South Australian Railways 520 class. The real engine carrying his number, Sir Malcolm Barclay-Harvey, is currently preserved by the SteamRanger Preservation Society at their workshops in Mount Barker, South Australia.

Shane is modified to run on British railways, having a screwlink coupling and buffers on the back of his tender and being scaled down from broad gauge to standard gauge although the 520 class can be converted to 4'8½ inches.

CGI Model
In 2009, the series introduced Computer-Generated Imagery (CGI) as a replacement for the show's long-standing live-action models. In 2015, Shane was created from scratch in CGI by Arc Productions for the 2016 movie, The Great Race. The model was "hand-sculpted" in Maya, a 3D animation and modelling software.

Fonts
The following fonts are used on Shane's CGI model:
 * Times New Roman Bold

Voice Actors

 * Shane Jacobson
 * Matthew Richardson
 * Tim Bain
 * Ryōsuke Morita
 * Omar Carrasco
 * Jacek Król
 * Holger Umbreit
 * Tuukka Leppänen
 * Petridisz Hrisztosz
 * Denis Bespaliy