51-300 Crafting Visually-Driven Narratives

9 units, Carnegie Mellon University

From shadow puppets on cave walls to Elmo at the Olympics, telling stories through puppets and objects is a universal form of human expression. This course explores the creation of narratives with puppet characters and objects through hands-on exercises. Through a series of practical projects from hand-cranked images to muppets, students will make prototypes, storyboards, and character designs to bring their own visual narratives to life. Open to students of any discipline, this course is for students passionate about multidisciplinary arts, global traditions of storytelling and makng weird little guys out of trash.

Prerequisites: none listed

Offered: Spring 2026

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