Dexter/Behind the Scenes

Television Series
Dexter is a fictional coach created by Lee Pressman

In 2018, Dexter made his debut in the twenty-second series episode, School of Duck.

Dexter is voiced by Mark Moraghan (UK/US) in the CGI version of the series on both sides of the Atlantic, respectively, after he announced he stop narrating on Thomas and Friends.

Dexter is based on an LB&SCR Stroudley four-wheeled brake coach.

CGI Model
In 2009, the series introduced Computer-Generated Imagery (CGI) as a replacement for the show's long-standing live-action models. Dexter was created from scratch in CGI by Jam Filled Toronto for the twenty-second series. The model was "hand-sculpted" in Maya, a 3D animation and modeling software. Instead of having a embedded face like Annie and Clarabel, Dexter has a gray face to match the other vehicles (and as his model also reuses elements of a standard brake coach, it saved the costs).

During his fantasy sequence, Dexter's road wheels are altered from one of the Blue Mountain Quarry Dump Trucks and his caterpillar tracks are reused from Oliver.

Voice Actors

 * Mark Moraghan
 * Mitsuhiro Sakamaki
 * Otar Saralidze
 * Valerio Massari
 * Achim Schülke
 * Petrus Kähkönen
 * Anton Savenkov
 * Lee Sang-ho