Mike Judge knocks this one out of the park

The Best Animation Festival Yet

By Colin Hickey, 4-25-07

Mike Judge and Don Hertzfeldt are both animators and they noticed that there wasn’t enough ways for people like them to get their names out into the world. Granted, Mike Judge is uber famous for his shows Beavis and Butthead and King of the Hill—but what about the little guys? 

So these two fellas came up with The Animation Show and they sent it out on the road.  This is the third year of The Animation Show and it just keeps on growing.  Besides just touring the show city to city Judge is working on getting it aired on MTV2.  Amazingly enough, this is the third animation festival to come to Missoula in just four months.  Out of the three, this is by far my favorite.  There are about a dozen amazing shorts in this festival.  (Note: Even though there is no rating on the show, Judge suggests that no one under 10 see it because there is a little mild violence. )

The Animation Show 3 will be showing at the Crystal Theatre from April 24th-29th at 8:00.  For $5 this could be the deal of the century.  Why waste $8.50 at the Super Plex on some big-budget headache when you can see some cutting edge animation. 

Colin Hickey is New West’s Events Editor. Keep an eye out for his “MVP Events” or check here to find your own: www.MissoulaEvents.net.

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