Plasticine

[plas-tuh-seen]

Trademark.

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

Plasticine

/ ˈplæstɪˌsiːn /

noun

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

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.

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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.

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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.

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Ukrainians who have seen the page on Instagram are not particularly impressed: Plasticine will not stop bombs.

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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.

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