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{{Infobox Convention
| name       = Animation On Display
| image      = 
| caption    = 
| status     = Defunct
| genre      = Animation
| venue      = Santa Clara Convention Center
| location   = [[Santa Clara, California]]
| country    = United States
| first      = 2003
| last       = 2017
| organizer  = Federation for the Promotion of Animation
| filing     = Non-profit
| attendance = 2,195 in 2012;<ref name="AC-AOD2012">{{cite web
 |title=Animation On Display 2012 Information
 |publisher=AnimeCons.com
 |url=https://animecons.com/events/info/2699/animation-on-display-2012
 |accessdate=2018-06-25 
}}</ref> 1,593 in 2005<ref name="AC-AOD2005">{{cite web
  | title = Anime Overdose 2005 Information
  | publisher = AnimeCons.com
  | url = https://animecons.com/events/info/684/anime-overdose-2005
  | accessdate = 2018-06-25 }}</ref>
| website    = http://www.aodsf.org/
}}

'''Animation On Display''' was an [[animation]] [[Convention (meeting)|convention]] in [[Santa Clara, California]] at the Santa Clara Convention Center containing [[animation]] screenings, [[cosplay]], panels, guests, vendors, [[fandom]], [[comics]], [[music]] and more in reference to [[East Asia]]n and [[United States|American]] culture.

Formerly '''Anime Overdose'''<ref name="AC-AOD2005" /> and then '''AOD: The San Francisco Animation Convention''',<ref name="AC-AOD2006">{{cite web
  | title = AOD: San Francisco Animation Convention 2006 Information
  | publisher = AnimeCons.com
  | url = https://animecons.com/events/info/842/aod-san-francisco-animation-convention-2006
  | accessdate = 2018-06-25}}</ref> Animation On Display is managed by the Federation for the Promotion of Animation and is a [[non-profit organization]]. It is the goal of the FPA to increase awareness and understanding of the art of animation and its related interests in a fun and exciting family-oriented format and to enable those interested in animation to meet and share their interests.<ref name="ABOUT-AOD">{{cite web
 |title=About Animation On Display 
 |publisher=Animation On Display 
 |url=http://www.aodsf.org/about/ 
 |accessdate=2013-03-01 
 |url-status=dead 
 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130304112941/http://www.aodsf.org/about/ 
 |archivedate=2013-03-04 
}}</ref>

==History==
The Anime Overdose convention began in 2003 at [[Santa Clara University]].<ref name="AC-AOD2003">{{cite web
  | title = Anime Overdose 2003 Information
  | publisher = AnimeCons.com
  | url = https://animecons.com/events/info/803/anime-overdose-2003
  | accessdate = 2018-06-25 }}</ref> As the convention expanded, it was moved to the [[Nob Hill, San Francisco, California|Nob Hill]] neighborhood of San Francisco.<ref name="AC-AOD2005" /> Soon joining forces  with several other animation themed groups in the area, they decided to create a larger scale event together which started the foundation for AOD.<ref name="ABOUT-AOD"/> The event was thus named "Animation On Display" in 2007. In 2010 it moved to the Japantown area in San Francisco, where it stayed briefly.<ref name="ABOUT-AOD"/> before in 2014, moving to The Hyatt in [[Burlingame, California]] located near the San Francisco International Airport. In 2016, AOD moved to the Santa Clara Convention Center. The next year, it moved to the Marriott in [[Santa Clara, California]], its final location for 2017. On November 22, 2017, the convention announced on its Facebook page it would be ceasing operations effective immediately.<ref>{{cite web | url-access=limited  |archive-url = https://ghostarchive.org/iarchive/facebook/160684903942560/1765160273495007 |archive-date = 2022-04-27| url = https://www.facebook.com/AODCon/posts/1765160273495007 |title = AODCon on Facebook  |website=[[Facebook]]}}{{cbignore}}{{User-generated source|certain=yes|date=March 2022}}</ref>

==See also==
*[[List of multigenre conventions]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
*[http://www.aodsf.org/ Animation On Display official web site]
*[https://animecons.com/events/info/7546/aod-2017 AOD 2017 on AnimeCons.com]

[[Category:Defunct multigenre conventions]]
[[Category:San Francisco Bay Area conventions]]
[[Category:Recurring events established in 2003]]
[[Category:Recurring events disestablished in 2017]]


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