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.

• chapter 1 The Origin of Puppets and Homunculichapter 2 The Art of Silhouette Plays and Filmschapter 3 2D versus 3D in Nazi Germanychapter 4 Puppetoons versus Jiří Trnkachapter 5 The Dynamatorschapter 6 Pixilation and Mocap: People Become Puppetschapter 7 The Road to CGIchapter 8 The Decomposition of Imageschapter 9 Aardman or, A Renaissance of Stop Motionchapter 10 The Isle of Old-Fashioned Animators

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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.

• chapter 1 The Origin of Puppets and Homunculichapter 2 The Art of Silhouette Plays and Filmschapter 3 2D versus 3D in Nazi Germanychapter 4 Puppetoons versus Jiří Trnkachapter 5 The Dynamatorschapter 6 Pixilation and Mocap: People Become Puppetschapter 7 The Road to CGIchapter 8 The Decomposition of Imageschapter 9 Aardman or, A Renaissance of Stop Motionchapter 10 The Isle of Old-Fashioned Animators

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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.

• chapter 1 The Origin of Puppets and Homunculichapter 2 The Art of Silhouette Plays and Filmschapter 3 2D versus 3D in Nazi Germanychapter 4 Puppetoons versus Jiří Trnkachapter 5 The Dynamatorschapter 6 Pixilation and Mocap: People Become Puppetschapter 7 The Road to CGIchapter 8 The Decomposition of Imageschapter 9 Aardman or, A Renaissance of Stop Motionchapter 10 The Isle of Old-Fashioned Animators

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