Philip/Behind the Scenes

Background Information
Philip is a fictional standard gauge diesel boxcab locomotive created by Ian McCue and Andrew Brenner.

In 2015, Philip made his debut in the nineteenth series of Thomas & Friends in the episode The Little Engine Who Raced Ahead. He last appeared in the twenty-fourth series episode Gordon and Rebecca, Coming Through!, which was released in 2021.

Philip is voiced by Rasmus Hardiker (UK/US) in the CGI version of the series on both sides of the Atlantic, respectively. Contrary to his American basis, the character was portrayed with a British accent.

Philip is based on a Pennsylvania Railroad's diesel-electric Class A6 "Boxcab" switcher, but with the curved back end and extra door of the AGEIR (Alco, General-Electric and Ingersoll-Rand) prototype boxcab #8835, albeit with five windows instead of seven.

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, Philip was created from scratch in CGI by Arc Productions for the nineteenth series. The model was "hand-sculpted" in Maya, a 3D animation and modelling software.

Texture variants
In addition to his standard livery, a few other texture variants exist of Philip's CGI model. These texture variants include:

Fonts
The following fonts are used on Philip's CGI model:
 * Sodor BLD

Voice Actors

 * Rasmus Hardiker
 * Daiki Kobayashi
 * Nozomu Sasaki
 * Bartosz Wesołowski
 * Paul Disbergen
 * José Ángel Torres
 * Alberto Bernal
 * Susana Moreno
 * Tim Kreuer
 * Tammo Kaulbarsch
 * Jordi Estupiñá
 * Yoli Seker
 * Dor Srugo
 * Marco Barbato
 * Loukas Frangoulis
 * Valtteri Turunen
 * Ricardo Fábio
 * Enrico Espada
 * Shin Yong-u
 * Baek Kyung-hoon
 * Shin Jeong-hoon
 * Bang Ji-won