Case Study: Stoopid Buddy Stoodios achieves fast, high-quality stop‑motion puppet part production with Proto3000

Award winning animation studio relies on ETEC to help create characters

Stoopid Buddy Stoodios, an award‑winning stop‑motion animation studio, faced a persistent production bottleneck: creating the hundreds or thousands of interchangeable puppet parts required for replacement animation was slow, labor‑intensive and limited the studio’s ability to take on new projects. To speed prototyping and volume production of faces, eyes, hands and props while keeping camera‑ready detail, Stoopid Buddy adopted 3D printing technology from Proto3000 (using the high‑resolution D4K platform).

Proto3000’s solution let the studio print parts in hours—even at resolutions as fine as 25 µm—dramatically cutting lead times versus traditional sculpting and casting, reducing post‑processing, and enabling rapid design changes. As a result, Stoopid Buddy could reliably produce the hundreds-to-thousands of replacement parts needed for demanding productions, stay on schedule and on budget, and scale workflows with repeatable, camera‑quality prints delivered by Proto3000.

Stoopid Buddy Stoodios