Plasticine similar materials are often used in clay animation. One of its main proponents is Aardman Animations' Nick Park, who used characters modelled in Plasticine in his four 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 film "The Curse of the Were-Rabbit" (2005). This technique is popularly known as claymation in the US, and is a form of stop motion animation. Plasticine-like materials are appealing to animators because the material can be used with ease: it is
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