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.

Others still acknowledge not only the craftsmanship but the uniqueness of stop-frame dimensional animation that is way beyond the standardization of CGI.

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 Jirí 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