Inside Stoopid Buddy Stoodios' stock-puppet system for Robot Chicken's weekly puppet volume

Animation World Network's account of Stoopid Buddy Stoodios' puppet department for Robot Chicken -- a sketch-comedy series that needs a new cast every episode rather than one continuing hero -- describes how Head of Puppet Fabrication Caroline Kastelic and Head of Costuming Julia Rosner solve for volume rather than for a single hero puppet: nine stock body types (child, teen and several adult male and female builds) are molded and cast in bulk from standing molds, with armatures built from "aluminum wire, steel wire and body blocks," and then customized per-sketch with a new sculpted head, paint and costume. Non-humanoid characters are instead hand-built by adding foam around a wire armature. The article puts a number on the resulting scale: roughly 100 puppets fabricated per episode, about 2,000 across a season, worked on staggered six-week fabrication-and-costuming cycles across overlapping episodes so no single episode depends on one finished puppet. On the costuming side, Rosner describes hand-draping patterns onto miniature fabric and using "Topstick, glue, or starch like materials" to stop cloth shifting between frames, while avoiding fraying fabrics and light colors that show handling dirt; 3D printing is used mainly for accessories, helmets, hands and shoes rather than for replacement animation parts. The stock-body approach is folded into the Wiki at duplicate-puppets-parallel-stages, as the volume-television counterpart to ParaNorman's hero-and-duplicates model.