Zixx
| Zixx | |
|---|---|
| Genre | Sci-fi/animation |
| Created by | Jeffrey Hirschfield |
| Starring |
Barbara Mamabolo Jeffrey Hirschfield Alex Hood (2004) Jamie Johnston (2004) Ephraim Ellis (2005–2009) Brenna O'Brien (2005–2009) Reece Thompson Scott Mcneil (2012) (2005–2009) T. Roy Kozuki (2008–2009) |
| Country of origin | Canada |
| No. of seasons | 3 |
| No. of episodes | 39 |
| Production | |
| Running time | 30 minutes (including commercials) |
| Production company(s) |
The Nightingale Company Rainmaker Entertainment |
| Release | |
| Original network | YTV, Cartoon Network |
| Original release | 2004 – 2009 |
Zixx (full title is Zixx: Level One for season one, Zixx: Level Two for season two, and Zixx: Level Three for season three) is a Canadian television series that airs on YTV. This series was developed by Savi Media and The Nightingale Company & Rainmaker Entertainment 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 game engine LithTech 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.
Zixx is an Intergalactic Network (simplified as the Network) agent who has crash landed onto Earth with her partner Flanngo. As luck would have it, Earth also happens to be a hotbed of activity for the evil Onccalon and the Hargokk Empire. Zixx has no intention of letting him win, so she and Flanngo need to find a way to access the Network and make sure they can get to the next level of the Keep before Onccalon's henchmen do.
Zixx and Flanngo need to find a way into the Keep, a trans-dimensional antimatter field (a cyber dimension resembling a video game), the last legacy of the ancient Gaanth race, the leaders of the Network (reminiscent of Tron). The difference is that it is game over for real if you die in the Keep. Reluctantly accepting the help of earthlings, Adam and Griff, the four need to move fast and finish level one of the Keep, to do so they will need to recover the six fragments of a crystal that are scattered throughout the level. When the crystal is whole and combined with the crystal base, it shows the map to the three neuropods buried deep within the level that, when solved, show the path to the next level. They must accomplish all of this before Onccalon's henchman Deeth does.
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