# @samplertimes on Instagram

- **Type:** Video
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/B_x0shcD7kV
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/21729973-samplertimes-instagram
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/postThumbnails/49918ff71c.jpg
- **Posted:** 2020-05-04T20:16:26.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Lawrence Becker (@SamplerTimes) — https://gondola.cc/SamplerTimes

## Caption

Paw Wars Remastered (2013) - funny enough, these Vines for a Mashable contest changed my life. It directly led to me working for ESPN, and then the rest of my career. Clifford had to die, so that I could rise haha. The story behind it is hilarious though. Back in 2013, jeremycabo and the people at mashable asked me to host a Star Wars themed Vine contest, but I had to make it at their offices on their phone (made in-app back then), and in a tiny closet that also had a toilet in it 😅. So, using my technique of animating over a video screen with paper cutouts one frame at a time (sound designing one frame at a time too 😳), and with a blazing hot lamp making me sweat- I spent about 6-7 hours making this. At one point I was supposed to stop, while they had an important meeting going on outside the closet, but I continued because I knew I wouldn’t finish otherwise. I finished and was too hot so emerged, sweaty as hell in the middle of their meeting with their CEO and important higher ups. They had no idea I was even in there! I kind of waved hello awkwardly and got the hell out of there, ready to show Jeremy what I made. Apparently they also joked to check the closet for people after that. 😂 Anyway, that one opportunity in a hot closet with a toilet changed my life! 
#pawwars #stopmotion #stopmotionanimation #papercutout #snoopy #redbaron #clifford #cliffordthebigreddog #starwars #maythe4thbewithyou #battleofhoth

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redbaron, maythe4thbewithyou, clifford, stopmotionanimation, starwars, snoopy, pawwars, papercutout, battleofhoth, stopmotion, cliffordthebigreddog

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