ANI 482 — DIGITAL PUPPET ANIMATION (CUR-197)
Summary 🟡 ✓
- Resource type: course
- Owner Unit: Animation
- College/School: Jarvis College of Computing and Digital Media
- Curriculum section: Art, Media, and Design
- Catalog: ANI 482
- Last Verified: 2026-07-01
Course access
- Level: yellow (
Prerequisites Required) - Rationale: Catalog lists formal prerequisites, co-requisites, or program-status requirements.
- Prerequisites:
- ANI 421 is a prerequisite
Verification
- Status: verified_catalog_course (
✓) - Rationale: Captured from official DePaul course catalog (2026-06-30 discovery pass).
- Source URL: catalog.depaul.edu/course-descriptions/ani
- Last verified: 2026-07-01
Catalog description
This class will introduce advanced production pipelines and techniques of 2D digital puppeting, with a focus on industry-standard software such as After Effects, Animate, and Harmony. Students will learn the evolution of puppet animation throughout history, the basics of visual design, rigging, and animating specific to 2D puppeted characters. Lectures and creative projects will give students the practical knowledge to create an organized workflow. Resulting in the ability to work independently and collaboratively to create well designed and animated 2D puppet animation. ANI 421 is a prerequisite for this class.
Hardware relevance
Catalog course linked to map themes/programs: fabrication.
Notes
Catalog course key: ANI 482.
Provenance (promotion record)
- Promotion date: 2026-07-01
- Promotion batch:
catalog-course-promotion-2026-06-30 - Provenance kernel:
depaul/XTR-000136←depaul/SRC-001250(catalog_description)- Extraction status: linked
- Evidence packets:
2026-06-30-thematic-fab-optics-quantum-id-evidence- Discovery themes: fabrication
- Schedule (capture): Not offered in queried registrar terms
- Evidence captures:
- Catalog:
sources/inbox/2026-06-30-thematic-fab-optics-quantum-id-evidence/source_snapshot/captured/catalog-search-ANI-482.html - Schedule:
sources/inbox/2026-06-30-thematic-fab-optics-quantum-id-evidence/source_snapshot/captured/schedule-ANI-482.json - Notes: Promoted from catalog discovery evidence packets; XTR/SRC linkage to be completed in forthcoming provenance refactor.