chapter 1 The Origin of Puppets and Homunculi
chapter 2 The Art of Silhouette Plays and Films
chapter 3 2D versus 3D in Nazi Germany
chapter 4 Puppetoons versus Jiří Trnka
chapter 5 The Dynamators
chapter 6 Pixilation and Mocap: People Become Puppets
chapter 7 The Road to CGI
chapter 8 The Decomposition of Images
chapter 9 Aardman or, A Renaissance of Stop Motion
chapter 10 The Isle of Old-Fashioned Animators
Biography
Rolf Giesen, a former visiting professor at the Animation School of the Communication University of China in Beijing, has compiled a special effects collection for Deutsche Kinemathek in Berlin and has co-written several animation features. He is president of the Jilin Animation, Comics and Games Museum in Changchun, China.
