By Sabrina Rodriguez

WEST SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (abc40) - There are a lot of attractions at the Big E, which bring people back year after year. But there's one in particular that causes people to stop and stare, the butter sculpture.

"It's really done like traditional sculpture, and it's really no different than that, it just with butter that's all," said sculptor Jim Victor.

For the last 12 years, Victor and his life-like creations have been a featured attraction at the Big E.

And he looks forward to it every year, "When I come back I get the feeling like, they see me as a friend, someone that they know, and they depend on seeing the butter sculpture."

In a ten day period, for eight hours a day, Victor will take well over six-hundred pounds of butter and craft a cow, a goat, and two young children.

It's physically demanding and there is a lot of mental preparation as well.

"I have to like the design I'm doing. I have to like the idea," said Victor. "If that's going well, I'm really just enjoying doing it."

But that's not to say there aren't challenges.

"It's a small room (to work in). I have to push things around, and find ways of doing whatever I need to do," said Victor.

And spending all this time around butter, you would think Victor would be sick of it, but nothing could be further from the truth.

"I eat butter, eat it almost every day," laughed victor.

And the end result is always worth it.

"It does seem kind of magical sometimes."

You can find Victor's sculptures outside the Mallary Complex for the duration of the Big E.

The booth is sponsored by the New England Dairy Council and the butter was donated by dairy companies Agri-Mark and Cabot.