Ashima (T&F)/Behind the Scenes

Television Series
Ashima is a fictional pink tank engine created by Ian McCue and Andrew Brenner.

In 2016, Ashima made her debut in the movie, "The Great Race".

Ashima is voiced by Tina Desai (UK/US) in the CGI version of the series on both sides of the Atlantic, respectively. The character is voiced with a matching accent to her home country.

Ashima is based on the Nilgiri Mountain Railway X class. She is based off of the oil-burning version of the engine, though she has the coal bunker of the coal-burning version. These engines are built to run on metre gauge rails, whereas Ashima is standard gauge.

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, Ashima 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.

Voice Actors

 * Tina Desai
 * Naomi Watanabe
 * Misa Ishii
 * Julia Kołakowska-Bytner
 * Annie Rojas
 * Alina Galindo
 * Manuela Bäcker
 * Franziska Lessing
 * Csuha Borbala
 * Olga Golovanov
 * Jenni Sivonen
 * Patricia Souza
 * Yu Yeong