Faculty & Facilities

Our faculty and staff of professional artists and animators plus state-of-the-art tools and labs give you everything you need to make the animated works you dream of. All of the studios and labs across departments are open and available to you for producing your work. And our home base on the sixth floor is a dedicated space for realizing animated works.

Faculty

FACILITIES

We use a combination of digital and analog tools to realize projects

Pacific Northwest College of art (PNCA) 2012 student Qathi Hart working in a dark room with one light source to capture stop-motion animation frames through a layering apparatus.

Animated Arts Lab

The Animated Arts Lab (Room TK) features the equipment listed below plus a student lounge shared with the Video + Sound department. Students also have complete access to unique equipment like various high-lumen projectors, 4k cameras, and steady cams.

Shipley/Collins Mediatheque for Projection and Performance

This 170-seat theater, with its flexible seating and capacity for high-end lighting, sound, and technology, is perfect for performance, projection, installation, and screenings. The space includes a green room and sound booth.

Projection, Sound, and Space class exhibition at PNCA

Students using the PNCA Sound Lab Audio Booth

Sound Lab

The Sound Lab features a professional vocal/isolation audio recording booth, Logic X production/mixing station, DJ station with Serato Scratch for live mixes and web radio broadcasting, Oculus Rift development kit, 4K video camera, Steadicam, legacy media transfer station, specialized projectors for installation pieces, Mac Pro with specialized video and sound editing/manipulation software such as Isadora, access to unique equipment like 8mm, 16mm projectors, mixers, microphones, amplifiers, monitors, and vintage film reels.

Facilities and Equipment

  • Digital Animation
    Six Wacom Cintiq workstations loaded with contemporary animation software and programs.
  • 2D Animation
    Four workstations that cater to various methods and traditions of 2D animation.
  • Production Tables
    Four light tables and accompanying tools for drawing and creating animation frames.
  • Technology
    Complete access to unique equipment like various high-lumen projectors, 4k cameras, and steady cams.
  • Private Animation Suite
    Reservable multiplane animation station used create and capture linear motion.
  • Stop Motion/3D Animation Suite
    Three 3D stations loaded with the industry standard DragonFrame software and 3 Canon 50D's.

Everything you need for your practice

Every door is open to you. All of the tools in all of the labs across campus are available for your making.

ALL FACILITIES