Georgia’s Savannah Faculty of Artwork and Design has launched the second section of its movie studio backlot.

The 11-acre, three-phase growth now consists of the backlot, new state-of-the-art manufacturing, fashionable costume design stitching labs, school rooms, an LED quantity stage for digital productions, a hair and make-up studio and an enormous, high-tech prop making store with instruments for woodcutting, welding and portray.

Talking with Selection concerning the new section, SCAD president Paula Wallace says, “This costume-and-production growth of the SCAD Backlot and Savannah Movie Studios goes properly past extra sq. footage, serving as a testomony to SCAD’s dedication to cultivating industry-ready expertise. A brand new constructing tailor-made for this much-lauded diploma program at SCAD gives college students with the identical cutting-edge tech they may encounter in skilled manufacturing studios, higher getting ready them for careers in costume design and past.”

About 3,700 sq. toes is devoted to costume design and creation. The area features a stitching classroom, stitching lab, convention rooms for mentorship and collaboration, a wooden and steel store and a specialised costume storage space with an industrial garment conveyor. Says Wallace, “Constructing 3 permits for bigger groups of costume designers to work on a undertaking effectively, and extra cupboard space means an accessible archive of costumes, equipment, props and set supplies to additional artistic inspiration and manufacturing worth.” She provides the scholars could have ease of entry to premier instruments and seamless cross-pollination with different departments.

Initially a 22,000-square-foot former meatpacking plant, the ability opened in 2014.

Wallace says, “This group of state-of-the-art services elevates manufacturing caliber and fosters a dynamic setting the place collaboration thrives, guaranteeing SCAD college students and alumni excel in each side of the {industry}.”

In 2025-26, two industry-ready soundstages shall be accomplished, together with 11 school rooms. Section 3 of the backlot will encompass a police station, a totally constructed single-family residence, a city sq. and extra.

Scheduled to open in 2026, this section will full the 11-acre buildout.