AusRail Animations

AusRail Animations (formerly Exveefan and MSTnoodle) is an Australian youtuber who created and animated his original series called RollingStock featuring talking locomotives on a fictional branchline railway.
== Background ==
AusRail Animations was originally MSTnoodle who created models of Thomas & Friends characters for Microsoft Train Simulator and later Trainz, being the some of the earliest models of T&F characters in those games. Newer version of these models can be seen in some of his first animation tests in 2007, and a final model of Thomas created around 2013 for a parody trailer. He also made a parody trailer for Casey Jr. and year earlier.
== RollingStock series ==
=== Episodes ===
# O.S. Day with Farmer Brown (Pilot)
# Enter the Sparrow
# Fizzled, Frazzled, Fried
# The Heat is On
# Rudolf Storms Through
# Times Have Changed
# One Trixie to Far
# Dwindle in the Rain
=== Characters ===
* Stacey - As station mistress, she is stern, cautious but also understands the engines and their needs, putting them before herself.
* O.S. - old but wise, and still useful.
* Electro - a small and spritely electric shunter.
* Rudolf - a large diesel for freight operations, may seem rough but he does have compassion, even if he doesn't want to show it.
* Beatrice - the maintenance engine on the branch, she does her work with no fuss and can be a useful source of advice or help.
* Trixie - a troublesome rail-tractor who means well but loves playing harmless tricks.
* Farmer Brown - a short-tempered and meticulous farmer who is also Stacey's sister.
* Sparrow - a vain and conceited high-speed engine from the mainline railway, he often gets into trouble due to his pompous actions.
=== Production ===
The series was animated using 3D Max.
The first test animation featuring one of the characters from the series (O.S.) was uploaded on the 20th of January in 2008 featuring a talking whistle inspired from Casey Jr. At this stage the character (O.S.) was an unfinished model that lacked wheels and a tender. A few months later on the 27th of September another animation test was uploaded, O.S now had wheels and a tender and the animation replicated a scene from Disney's Dumbo movie with an audio track from the film being used. The next year in 2009 on the 22nd of May yet another animation was uploaded this time O.S was altered in appearance to resemble what he does know looks like, having a 4-4-0 wheel arrangement rather than an 0-6-0 one. More rolling stock (open wagons, vans, tankers and a brake van) together with some infrastructure representing a station had been modelled, at this stage the character was still moonlighting as Casey Jr. On June 19th a small animation was uploaded featuring smoke effects and the first public view of the fully rendered coaching stock. Later on in the year on the 20th of October an animation was uploaded featuring pictures of more fully rendered characters those being Elsie and Rudolph, at the end of this video they are given the voices of Thomas, Emily and Edward from Thomas & Friends as a voice syncing test. On the 7th of December in 2010 a short animation was once more uploaded of O.S pulling away from a station at night, this animation was to test nightime setting and lighting effects from O.S's headlamp and the signals, this animation marks the last time O.S's whistle would move in a cartoonish fashion. On the 28th of September in 2014 the final test animation was uploaded featuring most characters rendered and scenery in place as a oppose to the white void-like space that had formerly occupied the area.
== Inactivity ==
The channel's latest video was an experimental video essay about locomotives being main characters in the media, this video was uploaded around 10 months ago in early to mid 2022. No videos have been uploaded this year in 2023 (as yet).
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