Fuzzy Pumper Palette Shop

Fuzzy Pumper Palette Shop was a custom animation and paint program created by John Carmack as a utility during the development of Doom. It allowed capturing and digitally manipulating video shots of three-dimensional objects.

This program was initially used by Adrian Carmack to capture the eight needed rotation frames of his hand-sculpted clay models. The model would be placed inside a brightly lit white box on a rotating modeling stand and then captured through video into the program. The resulting images were "distorted," and in substantial need of touch-ups. When the clay modeling process proved too slow to be practical, the program still proved itself useful for capturing images of the metal-and-latex miniatures created by Gregor Punchatz. Other items captured included shots of Kevin Cloud wielding various plastic toy guns which became the basis of Doom's weapons, Tom Hall's girlfriend's Eager Beaver chainsaw, a pair of snake skin boots, and a bloody scab on Kevin's knee - the latter two became parts of various wall textures.

Very little is known about the program's interface, architecture, or platform, as neither its executable nor its source code have ever been released. It can be conjectured that it was written in for, but it could also have been an MS-DOS program for use on a regular PC.