The building was formerly owned by DuPont and has a studio where training films were made. Now the studio and adjacent editing room house desks, cameras, computer scanners and booths used for animation projects. Zabady eventually would like to get creative writing students to script ideas for animation students to complete. Other classes already have contributed to the success of the class. The booths for clay animation were drawn up by drafting students and the service department built the units, which are painted black.
Students change each clay form bit by bit, photographing a frame at a time.
Students are mastering techniques and equipment. Zabady would like to offer a follow-up course to students who want to continue. All the students have to have completed Art I. Both Cedar Cliff and Red Land High School bus students to ACE for the classes. Zabady, an art teacher who has been interested in cartoons and animation for years, spends his mornings at ACE and his afternoons at Cedar Cliff. This is the first year the class has been offered, and Zabady credits Cedar Cliff Principal Robert Gross for supporting the endeavor.