Editing Plasticine (section)

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[[File:Tadzik1.jpg|thumb|A Plasticine model of a rat, by Polish animator Monika Kuczyniecka]]

Plasticine is one type of clay used in [[claymation]]. One of its main proponents is [[Aardman Animations]]' [[Nick Park]], who used characters modelled in Plasticine in his four [[Academy Award|Oscar]]-winning [[Wallace and Gromit]] short films ''[[A Grand Day Out]]'' (1989), ''[[The Wrong Trousers]]'' (1993), ''[[A Close Shave]]'' (1995) and ''[[A Matter of Loaf and Death]]'' (2008), as well as the feature films ''[[The Curse of the Were-Rabbit]]'' (2005) and ''[[Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl|Vengeance Most Fowl]]'' (2024). Plasticine-like materials are appealing to animators because the material can be used with ease: it is mouldable enough to create a character, flexible enough to allow that character to move in many ways, and dense enough to retain its shape easily when combined with a wire [[Armature (sculpture)|armature]], and does not melt under hot studio lighting.

Plasticine is used in [[long jump]] and [[triple jump]] competitions to help officials determine if the competitors are making legal jumps. A {{convert|10|cm|in|adj=mid|-wide}} 'indicator board' is placed beyond and slightly above the take-off line. The edges of this are chamfered and edged with plasticine. If an athlete leaves a mark in the plasticine, it is considered proof that the jump was a foul, and the attempt is not measured.<ref>{{Cite web  
|url=http://www.iaaf.org/download/download?filename=89ed4cba-6b5e-49fe-a43e-9f5487b77a84.pdf
  |author=[[International Association of Athletics Federations]] (IAAF) 
  |title=Competition Rules 2016-2017, Rule 184.3 
  |pages=208–210
}}</ref> Plasticine is used rather than sand, so that several boards may be prepared in advance: if a board is marked it may be replaced by a smoothed board immediately to avoid delaying the competition, but keeping the marked board available in case of challenges. An indicator board is used, rather than a wide strip of plasticine, as this provides a firm footing should the athlete step on it.

Plasticine-like clays are also used in commercial [[party games]] such as [[Barbarossa (board game)|Barbarossa]].

[[File:Plasticine garden veg.jpg|thumb|A life-size vegetable plot in [[James May]]'s ''Paradise in Plasticine'']]
Television presenter [[James May]], together with Chris Collins, [[Jane McAdam Freud]], Julian Fullalove and around 2,000 members of the public, created a show garden made entirely of Plasticine for the 2009 [[Chelsea Flower Show]]. Called "Paradise in Plasticine", it took 6 weeks and 2.6 tons of Plasticine in 24 colours to complete. May said, "This is, to our knowledge, the largest and most complex model of this type ever created." It couldn't be considered as part of the standard judging criteria as it contained no real plants, but was awarded an honorary gold award made from Plasticine.<ref>{{cite news |title=RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2009: Paradise in Plasticine |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/chelsea/small_gardens/may.shtml |agency=[[BBC]] |work=BBC One |access-date=20 May 2009 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last=Elliott |first=Valerie |date=20 May 2009 |title=Top Gear plasticine garden takes 'gold' at RHS Chelsea Flower Show |url=http://property.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/property/gardens/chelsea_flower_show/article6319449.ece |work=[[The Times]] |access-date=20 May 2009 }}{{dead link|date=September 2024|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref> The garden won the [[Royal Horticultural Society]]'s 'peoples choice' for best small garden.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.rhs.org.uk/showsevents/chelsea/2009/peopleschoice.asp |title=James May: Paradise in Plasticine|website=Royal Horticultural Society |date=2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100423171515/http://www.rhs.org.uk/showsevents/chelsea/2009/peopleschoice.asp |archive-date=23 April 2010 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

Plasticine is used by geologists studying rock deformation. One study compared the performance of four German products: Beck's green and Beck's orange made by Beck's Plastilin, [[Gomaringen]]; Kolb brown made by Kolb, [[Hengersberg]]; and Weible special soft made by Weible KG, [[Schorndorf]].<ref>{{cite journal|volume=26|number=4|date=2004|pages=725–737|journal=Journal of Structural Geology|title=Rheology of plasticine used as rock analogue: the impact of temperature, composition and strain|first1=Janet|last1=Zulauf|first2=Gernold|last2=Zulauf|doi=10.1016/j.jsg.2003.07.005|bibcode=2004JSG....26..725Z}}</ref>