the UK. In 2019, Yippee TV became the exclusive streaming service of Jay Jay the Jet Plane. Reboot A new reboot of the series titled The New Adventures of Jay Jay the Jet Plane (originally titled The New World of Jay Jay the Jet Plane) has been confirmed through Trilogy Animation Group's website. Unlike the original series, the characters' faces are completely redesigned, and made to look more cartoony, and like the original series, it will be CGI-animated. Production The series was produced by Venice, California-based production company Modern Cartoons at their soundstage in Oxnard, California, United States. Unlike Thomas & Friends, this series used a variety of cutting edge animation techniques: The backgrounds were miniature sets (usually built on two sheets of plywood). The humans, including Brenda Blue, are live-action people and shot in front of a green screen. The planes were computer models created in PowerAnimator in Seasons 1-2 and Maya in Season 3 and Jay Jay's Mysteries. Models from the pilot series were made for reference. The movement of the planes was recorded by playing out the scene with wood models equipped with magnetic position sensors. The planes had a switch to aid landing and taxiing, due to some minor fluctuations in the magnetic positioning data. The planes' faces and lip-syncing were done by face tracking, a technique where reflective spots are put on a voice actor's face. The voice track is digitally recorded along with the spot data. Then the face is rendered using a form of parametric animation. Head movement and other effects were done by joysticks. The complex mathematical and CGI issues were solved by Frank Ford Little, Ph.D. Several proprietary software systems were used: Data/audio recording and smoothing were done on a Windows machine. Daily cuts were done on "Compaq Alpha" computers running a 64-bit version of Windows NT 4.0. Characters Starting in the pilot series, every character and model plane is voiced by John William Galt. The planes and road vehicles are CGI characters, while the humans are live-action actors. Relationship words for the airplane characters refer to being in loco parentis for purposes of upbringing, and education, not for biological parenthood. The story says that (some of) the airplane characters were made in factories. Some of the stories describe characters as doing actions offscreen that would need foldaway arms (e.g. Big Jake digging holes), but those arms are never seen onscreen.