SCAD Film Studios Atlanta

The SCAD Film Studios Atlanta houses academic majors at SCAD Atlanta within the School of Animation and Motion, the School of Creative of Technology, and the School of Film and Acting, including animation, film and television, interactive design and game development, motion media design, and visual effects.

The expansive 60,000-square-foot facility empowers students with real-world studio environments and equipment to create experimental, immersive, and interactive content. The SCAD Film Studios Atlanta is the site of the university's second LED Volume stage, which combines live-action performance and pre-recorded footage in real-time, merging the real and virtual worlds. The extended reality stage was designed exclusively for SCAD in collaboration with Atlanta-based MEPTIK, an experiential design and virtual production company co-founded by SCAD alum Sarah Linebaugh (M.F.A., motion media design, 2014) and Nick Rivero.

The SCAD LED volume has a 40 by 20 by 17-foot wall screen display with a 1.5-millimeter pixel pitch. Environments displayed on the screen are created using the leading software platform Unreal Engine. The stage also includes a stYpe RedSpy tracking device, one of the most precise camera tracking systems in the industry, connected to a Red Komodo 6K camera fitted with Zeiss lenses via markers on the ceiling. An XR workflow from Disguise with four VX and two RX machines powers the delivery of real-time graphics from Unreal.

The SCAD Film Studios Atlanta is the former home of Atlanta TV station WXIA. SCAD acquired the building in 2008 and opened the digital media center in the fall of 2009.