The first TV show ever built inside a game engine. Yes, really.
Season 3 • Episode 13
LatestZixx is a Canadian television series that airs on YTV. This series was developed by Savi Media and The Nightingale Company with YTV Original Productions. The series was created by Jeff Hirschfield. The show consists of a mixture of live action "real world" sequences interspersed with computer-generated scenes set inside a virtual realm. In Zixx Level One, Elliott Digital used a game engine to create the animation, the first time this was done for a television show. For Zixx: Level Two, the production had to move to British Columbia when Thunderbird Films Inc. joined the team. Mainframe Entertainment came on board to do the animation and IDT Entertainment, the company that owns Mainframe, took over distribution of the show. It is the first ever Mainframe series to combine live action with computer animation. The crew would stay for season three.
Visual Effects
Pioneering game-engine animation that looks like PS2 cutscenes.
Production
First Mainframe live-action/CGI hybrid—ReBoot's weird cousin.
Practical Effects
Elliott Digital literally invented a pipeline for this.
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was literally the first television series ever rendered using a commercial game engine, beating everyone to a technique that later became standard.
Zixx is peak YTV Original—if you know, you know. It sits in the sacred canon alongside ReBoot, Monster Warriors, and being slightly embarrassed to tell Americans about your childhood.
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