Plasticine

Plasticine is the tetartagonist in The Magic Portal. She was voiced by Tina Williams. After all that rigid geometry and masculine (albeit asexual) LEGO characters, the Magic Portal urgently needed a foil. Plasticene was designed to completely break up the LEGO world and loosen it up. She changed colour (but often stayed green, because my film up to that point had very little green in her) had a completely different texture and motion to it and of course, was female. Plasticene was light relief both for animation and characterisation. Tina added quite a bit to the character. Playful and liquid is Plasticene's character. She can become anything, do anything and is the most friendly, carefree and imaginative individual amongst them - even heroically saving the intolerant Captain from the Liquid Paper Daleks after he's tried to perforate it. The only tip I have for would-be claymationers: for heaven's sake, work at a bigger scale so you have enough space to sculpt in! Animating a LEGOnaut sized glob of putty is sheer torture...

The Plasticene is also my nod toThe Red and the Blue - an Italian series of five minute claymation TV shorts that basically demonstrated you can do ANYTHING you bloody like in a film, regardless of cost or length. So I did.

Biography
The Plasticine was spotted by Captain Paranoia in her habitat as a shark fin. She approached him disappearing and shortly after reappearing. After trying to shoot her, Paranoia comes closer and she tips and changes into her regular phase. As Paranoia points his gun at her, the Plasticine becomes a block of clay and falls on him. She then becomes a taller orange figure and skates around him. When Paranoia tries to shoot her again, she became a cannon and fired clay at him. She then laughed before turning him into a drain and flushing away Paranoia.

The Plasticine then dashes through the portal entering Paranoia's ship. When Paranoia, P, and L are about to pass through the portal, P meets her and allows her to pass before him. On the other side of the portal is the creator's house where Paranoia is arguing with L and P about her. Later on they're ambushed by the Liquid Paper Daleks, and when Paranoia stays and tries to fight them, the Plasticine pulls him away before he could get shot.

They escape from the Liquid Paper Daleks in a sneaker, only to be chased by the monster. Outside they hide behind a shrub. Thinking they've got away with it, they're once again being chased by the monster until they reach the garage and crash into the set of their ship. Once the monster hits a camera, Lindsay rebuilds the set putting L, P, and Paranoia back in the ship, and the Plasticine back in the white void.