Ivan/Behind the Scenes

Television Series
Ivan is a fictional diesel shunter created by Ian McCue and Andrew Brenner.

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

Ivan is voiced by Bob Golding (UK/US) in the CGI version of the series on both sides of the Atlantic, respectively.

Ivan is based on a TGM23 class diesel shunter from Russia. Ivan has been regauged from "Russian" broad gauge to standard gauge. Shankar is another member of this class.

A printout seen in The Making of The Great Race shows that Ivan was at one point going to be based off of the RZD Kp4 class. These were 750mm gauge 0-8-0 tender engines, a number of which are still in preservation today.

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, Ivan 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 Ivan's CGI model:
 * Stencil

Voice Actors

 * Bob Golding
 * Kunihiro Kawamoto
 * Gustavo Carrillo
 * Andreas Kleb
 * Alexander Horlin