Awesome! Tortoise injured in a fire gets new shell.

A tortoise lost her shell in a fire but now, she can live a normal life again after the incident. Found with burnt forelegs and a damaged shell, the tortoise had lost the pride of being a tortoise, usually admired for the shells.

However, luck smiled on the tortoise after she suffered pneumonia twice, and had starved for 45 days before she was found.

Cicero Moraes told InsideEdition.com that his team then decided to then embark on creating the world's first 3D printed hull for the animal. While similar procedures have been done, Freddy is the first turtle to receive a hull replacement surgery, while others have had prosthetics created to correct the hull.

"To model the hull, I took several pictures of a healthy [tortoise]," Moraes said to IE.com. He then determined the dimensions of the hull Freddy needed, and created it in four different sections using a low-cost material made of corn.

"The hardest part was to match four different parts," Moraes said. Each section took a full day to print.

Freddy underwent surgery for the new shell last summer. The surgery was a success and the new shell, created perfectly to Freddy's dimensions, allowed the animal full mobility and protection.

However, the 3D printed shell was a stark white, causing Freddy to stand out.

After a team researched the types of paints that would be safe for the tortoise, Brazilian artist Yuri Caldera stepped in and painted a new design on Freddy inspired by "the colors nature has given [her]," according to the press release.

Source: Inside Edition