Continuing the trilogy of this year’s captured moments from the event mentioned up there in the title:

One of this year’s feature presentations is “Get Animated”, a traveling exhibit about the animation medium that’s appeared in other states over the last three years before gracing our fair land with its colorful presence.

Longtime fans of the field will appreciate the looks back at the Looney Tunes era, including art samples and souvenirs from notable directors such as Bob Clampett and Chuck Jones.

If you prefer works of more recent vintage, this version of the exhibit focused heavily on Dreamworks’ last few projects. Behold the nimble-footed Po, star of Kung Fu Panda, the greatest Jack Black film of all time.

If Po is too old and you want glimpses of the Dreamworks cutting edge, I’m afraid you’ll have to wait till 2014 for How to Train Your Dragon 2. In the meantime, please instead enjoy the eponymous star of Turbo in all his glorious lighting. I’m sure when the poor, speedy snail was selected to headline this section of the exhibit, the curators didn’t expect it to be this summer’s lowest-grossing animated film.

Bridging the gap between classic Warner Brothers shorts and expensive modern blockbusters: this 2-D recreation of one of the most famous animated couches in TV history.

This educational experience also taught us how animation is a key component of another medium: video games! Old-schoolers may recognize the first sequel to Donkey Kong, in which the villain was your former hero Mario and your new hero was the son of the villain from the original. See, we could handle that kind of imaginative role-reversal back in our day without staging long-winded Internet debates about it.

I’m not sure why these cabinets drew such a small crowd. For just a quarter per play, visitors could find themselves spirited away to the heyday of 1980s video arcades, when kids like me had to leave the house to enjoy robust electronic gaming entertainment. Sure, you had your Ataris or Intellivisions at home or at your best friend’s house, but those looked terrible next to high-caliber adventures such as Dig Dug, in which a tiny, burrowing, masked man murders monsters with a fast-action bicycle pump. It wasn’t nearly as efficient as, say, Anton Chigurh’s cattle gun (as air-based implements go), but it was the only weapon in Dig Dug’s narrow arsenal.

I’ve never seen a real Zoltar machine up close. I have no idea why such an off-topic movie prop was on hand, but there he was. Was there a Big animated series and I missed it? Or was this their oblique way of nodding to Tom Hanks, star of the Toy Story Trilogy?

The loudest mechanical display was a 3-D zoetrope that used a series of static figurines to simulate how animation appears to the human eye. During its off moments, one could focus on the individual objects, each in a slightly different position from their near-identical counterparts around the circle.

When the circle spins ’round and ’round, strobe lights activate to coordinate the shadows in such a way as to bridge the transition gap across each split-second twirl from one piece to the next in line. This amateur video provides a vague idea of the effect that was easier to perceive in person. Fair warning: the audio in this clip is loud and murky because the amateur who didn’t know his newfangled camera had a video setting also has no idea how to edit videos before uploading them. He’s learning those moves one advancement at a time, if you will.

To be concluded!