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.

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: