Re-making a Gary Larson cartoon

Over the past few days I've been having a go at re-creating one of my favourite cartoons by Gary Larson out of plasticine. This is the original cartoon.

I started off by making the pig and snake, this was really difficult. As the top is so much heavier than the rest,  the entire thing kept collapsing. If you were to cut it apart now it would be full of bits of broken toothpicks (I didn't have any cocktail sticks). By the time I had finally finished, I had a go at editing the image into the original. It took me ages, and I'm not 100% happy with the result, but here is my attempt!

Unfortunately, the scale meant that I have missed off the bottom of the snake, and the head isn't anywhere near as big as the original, but I think on its own, it puts the point across.

How to 'quickly' make a plasticine penguin!

Today I made a very unhelpful 'how-to' guide on quickly sculpting a plasticine penguin. I hope you enjoy watching it as much as I enjoyed making it!

Pib and Pog

I'm currently working on some new models which are proving a little tricky, in the meantime, here is my favourite piece by Aardman, the creators of Wallace and Gromit.
I have tried animating my pieces before, but it's much harder than it looks, I've never managed to get them to look anywhere near as good as this:
Enjoy!

YouTube - Aardman's Pib and Pog