Knowing what happened BTS with Sausage Party makes it really hard for me to appreciate Greg, cause for all we know he could acted exactly like this during his time on Thomas and just no one spoke up about it cause they were scared of getting blacklisted. There is no doubt Greg cared for Thomas but i do think his dedication also came at the cost of making the directing of the nitrogen era feel really dull, the constant reuse of the same angles across the whole era becomes really boring fast cause unlike the model era where similar angles are understandable due to how filming with miniatures works, here with CGI it just gives off the vibes of Greg being lazy or wanting to rush episodes out as quickly as possible, even if that wasn't his intention.

It’s very unfortunate that Andrew Brenner is credited as the person who understood Thomas during the cgi era when Greg Tiernan was the one who made total dedication towards the source the original series.

15:47 I like how the Marklin engine being used for scrap is consistent with the model series, because after Season 1, the Marklin engine was broken up and used as scrap dressing

I like the part where the Irish director said "AMination"

Greg Tiernan is a great CGI director of Thomas & Friends and a nice fellow from the start, especially since he is obsessive w/ detail on the characters to recreate them in this style to stay revelvent with the model era, especially since he was a super big fan of the Railway Series. And yes, while I did read that bit of controversy with him regarding BTS of Sausage Party (though I never watched the film), I'm sure this video about him would explain how he's up to as of now given how Nitrogen Studios closed its doors in 2018.

Greg Tiernan is bacically the real life counterpart of Hans

Mad props to Greg Tiernan and his team for their work on CGI Thomas. They all did good at translating the original models into slightly more realistic digital animations whilst keeping the style of the original models.

Funnily enough, the director of the Adventures of Thomas movie made 9, which was also animated by Arc Productions, which as we all know would go on to animate Thomas after Nitrogen went to make Sausage Party.

Its worth remembering that Greg himself probably didn't do a lot of this stuff himself, this stuff is always a huge team effort. And with what we know about his team conditions later one, I don't feel comfortable praising Greg himself for going the extra mile and "doing" a lot of this stuff.

Man the entire Thomas and friends franchise are completely lucky that the director didint do something “inappropriate” with it, up until sausage party came along and well it only existed to be extremely insane as f!ck

While I respected Tieran as a director for Thomas, I completely lost respect for him because of the way he treated his workers during Sausage Party. It reminded me of my two previous jobs I once had where I was treated like that!

I like to believe this is canon in the Railway Series

“I did the animation for CGI Dublin”

Crazy how you can go from talking trains to talking sausages who can act rather questionable…

So far we have, Little Bill's creator was controversial, SpongeBob has leaked 18+ storyboards, and now Thomas and Friends with Sausage Party?

15:37 Wow, that's actually really cool, but at the same time, kinda sad too; Marklin being canonically dead in the CGI Era.. But, overall, still a fascinating Easter egg

It’s amazing and surprising how Nitrogen Studio, (now called Cinesite) was able to go from producing go from animating an iconic children’s show about talking trains and other vehicles, to a pornographic animated movie about talking food, and other objects, such as household appliances and even a condom. But Sausage Party wasn’t Nitrogen’s first time animating something aimed at audiences aged 18+. They also animated the cutscenes for the original God of War. So Nitrogen has had their history with iconic games, as well as companies like DreamWorks.

I think that Greg Tiernan is both underrated and under-appreciated in my opinion

It’s my birthday 🎁🎈🎉🎂🥳🎊 But Grey Tierman is crazy - From Thomas and Friends to Sausage Party This is something quite surprising

He used the You're a Mean One Diesel 10 instrumental when he talked about Day of the Diesels.

Because of what happened with Sausage Party I hate Greg which is a shame due to everything he had with Thomas

Great video, I never knew a lot about Greg before, but man this is some real interesting stuff. Can't wait for you to cover more crew members.

I wouldn’t say Greg Teirnan Is A Bad Person, He Had Good Intentions For CGI Thomas And Its “Amination” Which Payed Off Really Well. Sausage Party Didn’t Do Well With Greg If I’m Being Honest, I Get Where They We’re Going For And Behind The Scenes Was Very Wild For Greg’s Career. I’m Just Glad Nothing Else Bad Happened To The Guy After That. And Then Again We’ve All Had Those Moments Where We Feel Remorsefully Guilty For Our Immature Actions.

I’ve already lost respect for Greg Tiernan a long time ago because of the BTS controversy regarding Sausage Party.

Greg did put in a lot of good detail into the movies, despite the dialogue the characters have in the movies. The animation is good & it continues to get better & better. And I never knew who Greg was, nor how devoted he was to Thomas & friends. Great video 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

Nice to know that there's a lot more of us Thomas and friends fans from Ireland

This was a really good video. While Greg Tiernan may not have been the best guy ever as evident by the sausage party controversy, I do really respect how dedicated he was to replicating the assets as close to the model series as possible. Imagine if Nitrogen had animated the Brenner era, and had made the models for characters like Duncan, Duck and Oliver. I imagine they would’ve been more accurate to the props. Again, great video!

Yeah, I just realized something. His behavior might have been uncalled for, but it's not the WORST we could have gotten. Greg Tiernan, in my opinion, is INFINITY% better than the sexual advancer himself, John Lasseter.

6:05 I'd argue that Ready Steady Build did a pretty good job at replicating the stop-motion look. Everything looks the same, they just move a little more. If it's 2015 Bob we're talking about then that's different.

2:56 Reused line jumpscare lmao Also damn, Greg worked on the land before time everything is connected 💀💀

2:42 damn, seeing Thomas with the classic face is crazy but still better with his current chin fave

Imagine if the Sausage Party characters crossed over with Annoying Orange and the VeggieTales characters

14:00 Hit was probably worried about it being goth bait and that it would've "attracted the wrong crowd". There's an unspoken rule that I'm proud to have broken; Thomas and Goth don't mix.

Apparently, A few MLP voice actors such as Kelly Sheriden and Nicole Oliver voiced in Sausage Party, I would have loved to see one or two of those people voice some Thomas characters, maybe Nicole Oliver as Emily

Kinda funny that you didn’t mention about HOTR being initially intended to be the “Last Model Special” with the CGI hybrid mixed in. Originally, Stanley, Ironwork Twins, Rosie, Billy, and Harold were supposed be in the special, via. Wii files of the game. Hiro, Victor, and Kevin has face models made but only for merchandise references, and Stanley was originally supposed to be the main character in that movie because of the Spencer and Thomas rivalry, meaning that HOTR was supposed to take place after Season 12 and Great Discovery before the sudden full shift to CGI was made due to filming props getting too expensive, along with UK Animation Tax Breaks, when the 2010s of inflation were in a state where UK properties had to outsource their animation productions in other countries (Canada mostly). I always wanted to imagine Hero of the Rails being the hail marry of the Model Series (even with that horrendous CGI hybrid), but hey, there’s a HOTR rewrite made by Streak Smeargle that is a really good one that fixes the original special.

Nice video! Maybe in the future you could do a video about comparing Nitrogen, Arc and the BWBA studios animation?

The best part of the Nitrogen era is that it tried to replicate the camera work and models of Seasons 1-12 as best he could. As much as I love what Arc did during their final years (and Jam Filled did well with Season 21 and the chunk of Season 20 they had to finish), the Nitrogen era feels like every other second was dedicated to getting that Clearwater feel right. Come to think of it, Nitrogen could easily be seen as the Clearwater era of the CGI seasons, soon to be followed by Arc Productions being the Gullane era (Seasons 3-7) and BWBA/Jam Filled being the HiT era (complete with that weird overlap with the prior era given that Jam Filled finished Season 20 and did Season 21 before the big rebrand the same way that HiT implemented some of its restrictions on Season 7 before Season 8 kickstarted the HiT era proper).

My wish is meet Andrew branner and Michael Brandon

Well, that's a great video on Greg Tiernan. He deserve more love for his work on Thomas and pity he didn't stick around for the Brenner era since he's faithful to the original series and source material and could've helped Andrew Brenner and his writers with things. Ah, well. The CGI animation looks good on Bob the Builder and Fireman Sam in my opinion and there's nothing wrong with that since Bob and his machines look the same in CGI as well as the stop-motion and Fireman Sam, Norman Price, Penny, Elvis and some characters look the same too. The animation improved since Series 8 and even more from Series 13 onward which looks really impressive so not nightmare fuel to me. Overall, great video and hopefully I'II see more of this crew member videos next time. Best of luck.

1:52 Nearly everyone I know sounds like that.

They say that Sausage Party is the worst film. Isn't it?

Not to forget that he was the director of the two Addams Family movies alongside Conrad Vernon.

I've been to the slate museum in North Wales meultiple times and I've seen the Dinorwic incline up close.

Is it just me or are the animation markers on the engines incredibly eery?

What’s the name of the music during the portion where he talks about Thomas animation compared to the other hit entertainment shows

The combination we didn't need, but we got it. Mad but interesting topic.

What hurt the Nitrogen era was the lazy writing

A cgi thomas director directing a rated r movie is like a stop motion fireman Sam animator animating a stop motion horror movie. And it’s like a bob the builder producer to produce a mature violent gore comedy movie.

You forgot to credit Headmaster Hastings for his music in the description

Respect my opinion i enjoy watching Thomas in CGI because it more feel like cartoon and it because it made Thomas so alive than ever but ya feel more like cartoon but yeah at least Thomas is still being a realistic train in cgi

It's been years at this point so I might be totally off-base. I could've sworn I read somewhere that it was HiT (maybe, at that point, Mattel) that ended the relationship with Nitrogen for tax purposes. That Arc had bigger tax cuts than Nitrogen. It was less that Greg had his fill with Thomas and left it and more like the company behind Thomas was done with Nitrogen and Sausage Party was just the next project they went with. I don't know how any of that works and like I said, it's been years

When victor rolls into camera the first time his wheels aren’t moving

8:24 magic railroad: am I a joke to you?

Great vid never new Greg was Irish!

I had thought the Stardust Animation test consisted fully-CGI models superimposed on model sets

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@Thomas Theorist, I wanted to ask you a question. Is Porter and Harvey's CGI models designed by Nitrogen Studios before they stopped working on CGI Thomas & Friends because according to the Thomas The Tank Engine Wiki they are? I am so confused because Porter was created by Andrew Brenner and Ian McCue. So how could he be designed by Nitrogen Studios unless it was at the last minute? I could see Harvey's CGI model being designed by Nitrogen Studios as he was created before the switch to CGI. Of course, I would assume Harvey's CGI model didn't have a lamp and tail lamp if he was designed by Nitrogen Studios. As well as a break pipe and these changes were done by Arc Productions. @Thomas Theorist, please can you confirm if Porter and Harvey's CGI models designed by Nitrogen Studios or not by contacting a crew member who worked on the Thomas & Friends show at the time. Like Ian McCue. Please find out all the details.

I describe Sausage Party as if Veggietales and Happy Tree Friends had a baby.

Highlight of the Video "AMINATION"✨️ I'm crying from laughter Don't take it offensive

In my opinion sausage party had a lot of potential to be good (since I really like the concept of good seeing humans as gods since you can get a lot of emotion and drama out of it). Steve Reviews, a KZfaq channel, reviewed this movie and sums up my current thoughts on the movie perfectly

3:10: Hell, I’m actually trying a Thomas marathon of my own, and I’m only three episodes into Season 10 (at the time of this comment’s publication).

I would dream for a ttte cinematic universe

when did you meet greg tieman and get him to record "i did the animation"??? thats so funny lol

Bro, the don bluth movies are sooo good !!!! We should talk a lot more about them !!

I'm from Ireland as well.

He also directed the CGI Addams Family movies

7:31 Did anybody realize that victor's wheels aren't moving

I'd love to see a video about Helen Farrell, easily the best Brenner era writer.

I'm just amazed by Greg's work, It was very clear that he had the intention for Thomas and some of the real life Athletics of it. But it was HIT Fault that s13-16 We're so Bland, But at least it's better than AEG. This video blew my mind of how much history there was with him.

This is a question I found in the chat "Is sausage party worse then aeg"

Maybe it’s nostalgia, but I still have a soft spot for the Miller era. I do have a degree of fondness for the characters and locations, and I do have good memories of Misty Island Rescue and Day of the Diesels. It wasn’t exactly perfect, but it’s something I grew up on.

I am still grateful that Greg Tiernan had a lot of dedication when he was working on Thomas during an era of some mostly bad episodes, but otherwise good quality animation But hearing that Greg Tiernan would stoop to such awful things when he got onto working on Seth Rogen's Sausage Party given how many people have been left uncredited due to a singular blacklist and that he would get highly toxic to his own animators made me lose respect for him knowing that while yes, he is a talented genius who knew what to do and is a competent person. But hearing him do these things behind the scenes of Sausage Party is unforgivable to the point I can barely look past it. Though, he and the writing team having to put up with the HiT producers and executives making them use the same formula in a lot of the episodes produced secretly made me glad HiT was bought out by Mattel in the first place given how complete of stuck-up twats they really were in terms of how they managed Thomas during that time. I'm going to keep this short, but the same thing happened with Phil Lord when animators have been abused by him during production for the Spider-Verse sequel recently in 2023 and it's just as bad as how bad Sausage Party's behind the scenes scandals got. Hearing Phil Lord would give his own animation crew such awful and toxic treatment almost in his own way during production of that movie and showing no remorse or sympathy to the people he abused because he's a stuck-up bastard through that horrible response shows that people like him and Greg make me lose all faith and respect for them knowing their true colors.

Do what happened to the adventures of Thomas please can you do the next video

I prefer the classic original director David Mitton.

Amination

Hero of the Rails was supposed to be a model series movie just in case you forgot or just don't know

It just ended

Greg Tiernan is quite an interesting person. He was a lot more dedicated to Thomas than most people who worked on the show and had some great ideas for it too. I especially love the fact that he made the Skarloey engines and rolling stock look as accurate to the real life Talyllyn fleet as possible. That’s something I would do with most of the characters if I was animating Thomas. And then he went on to make such a silly adult movie like Sausage Party and find out he was abused his power while working on the film. I feel like Greg was probably a little too ambitious when making Sausage Party while also trying to make it as cheap as possible. I don’t respect how he treated the animators but I do respect his ambition for Thomas and animation as a whole. As for Sausage Party, I find it to be a fun movie, but I do see why many people would not like it. I respect your opinion on the movie. On a side note, I’m currently studying animation in college and have plans to make an adult animated movie and maybe work on Thomas someday as well. Looks like me and Greg Tiernan aren’t so different.

I miss cgi thomas

I'm may be the first person here to say that I actually liked Sausage Party; it was hilariously over the top, crude sexual humour that does whatever it wants and doesn't care if it offends anyone, and that's they way it should be. And if you are one who did get offended by the over the top edgy jokes, then that means the movie did it's job and the ones who actually find it funny will enjoy it even more and support it (like South Park). Now, I have never heard of his 'scandal' before, but that does not drastically change how I see him like it does other people. Yes, it's disappointing he turned out to be a shitty boss but it's not like he's an absolute monster (afawk) that the cringe media likes to make him out to be. I mean come on, they write these crap headlines like he groomed minors or something. I still respect and admire his/team's work on both Thomas and Sausage Party as well as the dedication he had to the show and the Railway Series. It's just a shame he was so restricted by (S)HiT's bad vision for the show and the awful writing. Which this leads to my next point; Greg being restricted is a good thing? No, I whole hardily disagree. The restrictions made sense in the model series because they were unavoidable with the budget and tools they had, but with CGI the possibilities are almost endless. You have to find a good balance between the classic aesthetic, railway realism and pushing the boundaries of filming the show with CGI; if you are too restrictive and stick too close to an old restrictive style, then your work gets boring and won't be memorable even with a good script, but if you push the boundaries of animation too far, you get something that's too flashy, too fast paced; something that is trying too hard to appeal to kids like BWBA. It becomes an eyesore that does not stand out and falls back into the category of another generic flashy kids show that parents can leave their kids in front of to distract them; there's no engagement and nothing is being learned or retained. We almost got that perfect balance when ARC took over before Mattel decided to f it all up for greed, and I believe Grieg could've done that if he wasn't restricted by HiT Entertainment's demands (including the absolute dribble from their terrible Thomas Bible) and bad writing, and if he wasn't so fixated on keeping everything close to the classic style.

20:37 Wrong Movie!!

Dude look at that CGI model face it’s almost as if they tryed to keep the shape of the angry face with a worried face 4:47

It was Sharon Miller fault with bad writing

Who else saw the down the mine pilot footage

I do like some of the CGI films but the older Thomas fans for example unlucky tug looks at writing and the bigger picture then the smaller things like stuff you can notice on the big screen and not on the edges like that marklin engine or the details it’s sometimes not about the writing or the characters itself it sometimes depends on how the back ground looks

He probably *had* to use fear to control the animators because let's face it the TTTE franchise has gone downhill so much no-one in the animation industry respects you if you've worked on Thomas.

Thomas Theorist does engines have zodiac signs

i did the amination for literally nobody but ME 😎😎😎😎

I see no sausage party thing

Edit) Ok. So this is probably either a bad time or a good time to say but what your thought about the real CGI Thomas model being leaked? Ps I wish he was a better man or know limits.

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Sausage Party is right up my alley because it’s shitpost cinema

what if he came back for Thomas?

Yeah sausage party is very sus and a bit controversial * viewer discretion is advised if you choose to watch it* hell they even added some sort of Nazi thing

I'll say this right here. Greg Tiernan seems, from what I heard from this video, to be a garbage human being (Not on the same level as John K or Dan Schneider, but still not a good person.). But, I do think there are instances where you can separate his work from himself. Hero of the Rails and Blue Mountain Mystery are still good, even though it's likely that the way he treated his animators during those productions really terribly, similar to that of Sausage Party.

It’s ashame Greg didn’t voice Donald and Douglas imagine seeing CGI Donne and douggy with a Irish accent I mean Irish and Scottish sound kind of the same

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I'd live a video running through the Bizzare Britt Alcroft on Social media. Her suposed insta is wild.