The Laboratory for Animation Arts (LA2) features top-of-the-line hardware and software for creating computer animation. Occupying two rooms, it features 7 animation workstations featuring SGI Indigo2 Extremes. LA2 is in the Communications building in rooms B015 and B025.

The laboratory is supported by the Center for Advanced Research Technology in the Arts and Humanities (CARTAH), and was founded as a joint effort among the School of Art, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, and School of Music.

LA2 is equipped via industrial gifts from the following companies:

The machines are named after famous animators:

bobe Robert (Bobe) Cannon - late 40s innovator and director of the Oscar-winning and very influential Gerald McBoing-Boing.
chuck Chuck Jones - a brilliant animator who started things at Warner Brothers.
friz Friz Freleng - another driving force behind the Warner Brothers cartoons.
max Max Fleischer - creator of Popeye, as well as the Superman series of the '40s.
otto Otto Messmer - creator of Felix the Cat.
tex Tex Avery - creator of some of the 'screwball' cartoons of the '40s.
walt Walt Disney, of course.
winsor Winsor McCay - creator of the Little Nemo series as well as Gertie the Dinosaur, one of the first film animations.