Ashima (AEG)/Behind the Scenes

Background Information
Ashima is a fictional pink tank engine created by Ian McCue and Andrew Brenner.

Ashima made her debut in the second series episode, Ashima's Amazing Arrival. The character was voiced by Canadian-Indian voice actress, Diya Kittur in the US dub, though unlike the original series, Ashima doesn't speak with an Indian accent.

2D animated rigs
Ashima in All Engines Go uses a series of complicated 2D rigs created by Nelvana Studio. These rigs are made up of different assets, which can be stretched, squashed and posed to create the desired movements and poses. Ashima's movements are handled by an animation team, with a posing team to create specific poses as required for certain shots. Ashima's 2D assets were made using Nia as a base, with heavy modifications.

Ashima's 2D design has undergone many changes from the design used in the original series:
 * She lost a set of driving wheels, making her a 0-6-2 rather than 0-8-2.
 * Her trailing wheels became slightly smaller.
 * She now has brown irises.
 * She is much shorter in length.
 * Her funnel became thinner.
 * Her cowcatcher has been decreased in size.
 * The white lining around her wheels has been removed.
 * The handrails on top of her boiler have been removed.
 * She now has rivets around her smokebox.
 * The decoration on her front bufferbeam has been removed, save for a row of green lines across the top.
 * The white ruffle details on her tank panels have been removed.
 * The white dots near the top of her cab are now gone.
 * The third spots at the bottom of her smokebox are now pink.
 * The decoration around the bottom of her dome is now gone.
 * The decoration on her dome has been flipped around.
 * Her cab windows are now rectangular and have become much smaller.
 * Her stepladders were removed.
 * Her filler caps are gone.
 * The handrails on her smokebox are no longer curved towards her face.
 * She gained an extra set of upper wheels.
 * Her upper wheels are now grey instead of royal blue.
 * Her coal bunker drastically decreased in size to the point where it is not visible from most angles.
 * The top of her boiler has been shortened.
 * The siderods on her upper wheels no longer move.
 * She no longer speaks with an Indian accent in the US dub.
 * Her name is now pronounced correctly, stressing the first syllable of her name rather than the second.

Voice Actors

 * Sandeep Garcha
 * Diya Kittur
 * Mayara Stefane