After the walkout, Chin Cheng-te used his own name for personal art projects, but continued to use the name of the Spring Grass Academy to collect, reprint, and publish a variety of old historical images to make it possible for ordinary people to have these old images from Taiwan's past.
退伍後，秦政德一邊以本名從事個人創作，一邊蒐集各類歷史老圖像，再以「小草藝術學院」之名將其印刷出版，希冀讓一般民眾能輕易地擁有這些屬於台灣的老影像。