Seth Green and John “Harv” Harvatine, along with partners Matthew Senreich and Eric Towner, forged their fullservice production company from an old Winnebago a decade ago.
A union of Green and Senreich’s late Stoopid Monkey shingle and Harvatine and Towner’s Buddy System Studios, Stoopid Buddy Stoodios specializes in stopmotion, CG and 2D-animated content for TV, film and digital. Their longest-running project, Adult Swim’s flagship Robot Chicken, is where the four first collaborated, in 2006. “We’ve been officially married for almost 10 years,” says Harvatine. “But we’ve been dating for, like, 15.” And, of course, that same vintage RV — since converted into an office for visiting directors — is now parked in the lobby of their Burbank facility.
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