BYU Animation Facilities

The Talmage Building (TMCB) houses the College of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Mathematics, Mathematics Education, Statistics, and Computer Science Departments. As part of the Computer Science Department, much of our equipment and facilities are located on the first floor of the Talmage Building.

1130/1134 Talmage

The main CG animation lab is located on the first floor in rooms 1130 and 1134 and houses computers with Cintiq Pros as well as two 112-core “monster machines.” FX and rendering can connect to an additional six 88-core machines. The computers are equipped with Autodesk Maya, SideFX Houdini, Pixar's RenderMan, Unreal Engine 5, The Foundry's Nuke and Mari, Pixologic ZBrush, CLO Virtual Fashion Marvelous Designer, and all Adobe Creative Cloud apps. The machines run both Linux and Windows to enable use of all necessary software. All labs leverage Pixar’s render farm utility “Tractor” for rendering capstone projects.

1138 Talmage

Located on the first floor of the Talmage next to 1130/1134, this animation lab is primarily for video game projects. It is essentially an extension of the main animation lab as it contains much of the same equipment and programs.

1110 Talmage (Animation Theater)

The Animation Theater serves as a classroom, meeting location for the Senior Film dailies, and a screening room. It is a theater-type room with a powerful projector and large screen in front for screening and teaching purposes. Most computer science animation classes meet here for instruction throughout the week.

West Campus Central Building (WCCB) Animation Labs

The West Campus Central Building temporarily houses the Department of Theater and Media Arts, Department of Visual Arts, and Division of Design and Production. As part of the Design and Production division, the WCCB houses the visual arts portion of the Animation Program with studio space for illustration, storyboarding, and Theater & Media Arts (TMA) courses. 1180 and 1190 are the main spaces for animation majors specializing in 2D, as well as some Illustration majors. It contains several computers with Cintiq monitors, and there is a print lab down the hall for high-definition printing. All the computers in this lab run Windows and have programs such as TV Paint, Toon Boom Storyboard Pro and Harmony, Adobe Creative Cloud, Zbrush, Keyshot, and various other helpful tools for 2D artists. There is also a large flat-screen TV for large-scale viewing. Cintiq styluses may be borrowed in the print lab if needed during daytime hours.