The Animation Show is a semi-annual touring festival of animated short films that premiered in fall 2003. It was created and is personally programmed solely by award-winning animators Mike Judge and Don Hertzfeldt.
Following the demise of other American touring festivals of animation, the stated purpose of the Animation Show is to continually bring animated short films back into proper cinemas, where most of them were intended to be seen, and to "free these artists from the dungeons of Internet exhibition". It is the first-ever festival of animation to actually be curated by working animators and has been described as a "passion project" by its creators, not something intended to turn a giant profit.
A sister series of Animation Show DVD volumes are also available, but the producers stress that the theatrical and DVD lineups are intentionally a little bit different, to encourage audiences to not just wait for the DVD but to visit the cinema and view these films properly. As stated on the Animation Show programs and flyers, once the current edition of the Show is out of theaters, it's "gone forever".
A fourth season of the Animation Show has been announced for American theatrical release in 2008.
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