May the Force be with you for this week's Vine Challenge.
We're calling all Star Wars fans to create Vine videos to be featured on Mashable. However, for this challenge, you must combine something from Star Wars (characters, settings or dialog) with a subject from another series or universe. Find a way to cleverly pair your multiple subjects together.
As long as you have a tie to the Star Wars universe in your mashup Vine video, you'll qualify as a winner. Be sure to post your Vine video with the hashtag #StarWarsMashup by Tuesday, August 27 at 6 p.m. ET.
This week's challenge is hosted by Lawrence Becker. Lawrence's Vine videos have a distinct visual style created by combining onscreen and off-screen animation. You may have seen his Buddy the Elf posts on Vine and in previous Mashable Vine Challenges.
Advice from Lawrence Becker
"I'm heavily influenced by the Roger Rabbit type of animation -- cartoons infiltrating the natural world," Becker said. "There's something about bringing superheroes and other characters into real life that I can't seem to get away from."
The technique Becker uses usually involves dozens of hand drawn paper cutouts or series of photographs and sometimes clay, which he places on his computer screen where he has a pre-recorded video progress, one step at a time. "I set up my iPad to shoot, and five hours later I have a six-second video," Becker said. "It's rather exhaustive, but the end result always makes me come back for more."
