{"id":19110,"date":"2014-10-26T10:00:11","date_gmt":"2014-10-26T15:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/?p=19110"},"modified":"2014-10-26T02:57:31","modified_gmt":"2014-10-26T07:57:31","slug":"apsu-art-students-animate-stories-by-clarksville-academy-second-graders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/2014\/10\/26\/apsu-art-students-animate-stories-by-clarksville-academy-second-graders\/","title":{"rendered":"APSU art students animate stories by Clarksville Academy second graders"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"AustinClarksville, TN<\/strong> – Earlier this week, a crowd gathered along the edges of a red carpet running through the lobby of the Austin Peay State University Trahern Building. They held up smartphone cameras and leaned over each other, trying to get a better view.<\/p>\n

The whole thing felt a bit like an old Hollywood movie premiere, and that feeling only increased when, at 1:00pm, the doors opened and the students in Frances Traughber\u2019s second grade class at Clarksville Academy shuffled down the carpet.<\/p>\n

\"Austin<\/a>

Austin Peay State University Animation Class<\/p><\/div>\n

The students, a bit stunned by the applause, headed to building\u2019s Trahern Gallery to watch the premiere of short animated films they had helped create.<\/p>\n

Earlier this semester, APSU students taking a Beginning Animation Class, taught by APSU art professor Kell Black, partnered with Traughber\u2019s class for the project.<\/p>\n

\u201cHer kids all wrote and illustrated variations of \u2018The Three Little Pigs,\u2019\u201d Black said. \u201cWe recorded the kids reading their stories, and then we took all those drawings and, through the magic of Photoshop and Flash, we extracted the drawings from the page and made them come alive.\u201d<\/p>\n

Once the students took their seats inside the gallery, the lights went down and the minute-long cartoons appeared on the wall at the front of the room. The students\u2019 voices were heard over the speakers, narrating the action to stories with titles like \u201cThe Three Little Giraffes and the Big Bad Lion.\u201d Sitting in the dark, laughing along with the second graders, were several tired-looking APSU animation students.<\/p>\n

\u201cEach film is about a minute long, but it probably took 30 hours to animate,\u201d Black said. \u201cAnimation, except for raising kids, is the most time consuming thing you could hope to do. If one person had drawn all of the animation for Walt Disney\u2019s \u2018Snow White,\u2019 it would have taken him 60 years.\u201d<\/p>\n

Amy Duncan, an APSU art student, said her project probably did take 30 hours to complete, and unlike other school projects, she felt added pressure to get it right for the Clarksville Academy student she was working with. The assignment also gave her ideas about other career fields once she graduates.<\/p>\n

\u201cI absolutely loved it,\u201d she said. \u201cI think this class opened doors for us as artists to work with the community, and it just makes our work better. I\u2019m an illustrator, I want to go into illustration, but taking this class has me thinking about animation in the future.\u201d<\/p>\n

After the premiere, the audience was treated to a reception next to the red carpet. And Black informed the parents in attendance that they will receive a DVD featuring their child\u2019s film in the next few weeks.<\/p>\n

For more information on this class, contact the APSU Department of Art at 931.221.7333.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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