Thanks to Hope Ginsburg and her Time Studio students at VCU for making WEATHER MASS MOVEMENT, a participatory stop-action animation of Hurricane Irene, come to life in the Sponge HQ in VCU’s Anderson Gallery.

This is the first in a planned series of stop-motion videos illustrating changes in the sky that take place over time.

We had an amazing experience working & learning with the group; more photos from the footage we’re still processing – and our talk at Saturday’s pancake breakfast online here and below.

Here is our QUICK overview in a 2-min video–the first 1.5 min is the making-of super fast, the last approx 20 seconds is the resulting hurricane animation.