ANI 226 — TRADITIONAL MATERIALS FOR ANIMATION (CUR-001)

Summary 🟢 ✓

• Resource type: course
• Owner Unit: Animation
• College/School: Jarvis College of Computing and Digital Media
• Curriculum section: Art, Media, and Design
• Catalog: ANI 226
• Last Verified: 2026-05-28

Course access

• Level: green (Open Enrollment)
• Rationale: No formal prerequisites listed in catalog description; open to any student meeting university registration rules.
• Prerequisites: None listed in catalog description

Verification

• Status: verified_catalog_course (✓)
• Rationale: Appears in the current official DePaul course catalog search.
• Source URL: catalog.depaul.edu/course-descriptions/ani
• Last verified: 2026-05-28

Catalog description

This course will have a rotating focus on various traditional art making practices to broaden animation students visual vocabulary beyond the digital. Students will use hands-on art making processes and strategies to explore color theory, tone, volume, texture, line quality, as well as strategies to incorporate them into their animation practice. Topics may include: collage, sculpture, puppets, fiber arts, wet or dry media on paper. Course is repeatable with different topics.

Hardware relevance

Traditional materials for animation: hands-on sculpture, puppets, fiber arts, and physical media.

Notes

Catalog course key: ANI 226. Course offerings and schedules are not verified in this pass.