Plasticine

American  

[plas-tuh-seen] / ˈplæs təˌsin /

Trademark.

1. a brand name for a synthetic material used as a substitute for clay or wax in modeling.

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Plasticine British  

/ ˈplæstɪˌsiːn /

noun

1. a soft coloured material used, esp by children, for modelling

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Example Sentences

“I’d been making these massive Plasticine resin paintings. I was so into it. I’d just shown in the Venice Biennale, and I wasn’t ready to not make something ambitious,” she says.

From New York Times

Today, he makes brightly colored, highly animated papier-mâché face coverings that he builds by layering strips of recycled newspaper dipped in a flour, water and salt paste over Plasticine forms.

From New York Times

But Cady’s double-agent shenanigans predictably backfire, as she becomes the very Plasticine image she pretends to despise — a transformation that feels all the more potent when mediated by the screens and filters of social media.

From Los Angeles Times

The animation technique used in both that short film and the ads, like most of Vinton’s work, was stop-motion, using Plasticine clay, ushering in what might be called the golden age of clay animation.

From Washington Post

Vulnerable young Instagram users can spend hours each day scrolling through photos and blaming themselves for not living up to the unrealistic, Plasticine standards of “beauty” that proliferate there.

From Washington Post