Tragic Comedy
Amusing and comical, the tempestuousness of animation
Was of weight and mass, of heavier degree to the common.
A furious burden enraged me of a comedy,
It featured in my animation, in my life,
My existence, my love and strife.
The fuss blended so well like an alloy,
Killing the existence as a werewolf employs mischief.
I was burdened by the brotherhood attached tonight,
Combining furthest with fusion, like a bomb to explode afterwards.
Futile speech emanated from my lips
To defend this comedy and tragedy.
poem by Naveed Akram

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Suspended In Animation
Suspended in Animation
To be lifeless and still
Watch the world passing by
Dreaming Forever
In a world of in justice
To be suspended in animation
To care for all people
But unable to help them
Musing forever
In a world of prejudice
To be suspended in animation
To yearn ends to conflict
Though you cannot end it
Withdrawn forever
In a world of war
To be suspended in animation
To covet life
A vessel for your soul
A body and conscious
From where you can forge change
To wake to a cause
And help the human race
This is your fate
Don't stray from it
Or be suspended in animation
By Alan McDowall
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Into An Existence Born
Looking through a lense,
Within an animation to be given choice.
And introspection to examine.
Into an existence born to serve a mission.
With a doing to complete,
While protected by specific direction.
Delivering messages to satisfy by demand.
And to follow as dictated...
Although the 'why' of this few understand.
Looking through a lense,
Within an animation to be given choice.
And introspection to examine.
But by 'what' or 'whom' is command of this?
'Not I',
Said the tool being used.
But not feeling foolish.
poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar

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In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.
quote by Wislawa Szymborska

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I think that comedy really tells you how it is. The other thing about comedy is that - you don't even know if you're failing in drama, but you do know when you're failing in comedy. When you go to a comedy and you don't hear anybody laughing, you know that you've failed.
quote by Carl Reiner

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Polonius: The best actors in the world, either for tragedy, comedy, history, pastoral, pastoral-comical, historical-pastoral, tragical-historical, tragical-comical-historical-pastoral, scene individable, or poem unlimited. Seneca cannot be too heavy, nor Plautus too light. For the law of writ and the liberty, these are the only men.
line from Hamlet, Act II, Scene 2 by William Shakespeare (1599)

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Look what Disney's done to their animation department. There wasn't an animator in charge of their animation unit!
quote by Ralph Bakshi

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Animation is tremendously resilient. Animation will recover, as art always recovers. There's always cycles of good art.
quote by Ralph Bakshi

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It just seems like the whole, overall animation world is trying to go where maybe animation doesn't belong.
At those times I got into... I suppose you call it a rut. I used to do comedy, comedy, comedy and I suddenly thought I ought to break away from this somehow.
There's a lot of comedy in Intermission but it's got this depth. It's not comedy for comedy's sake - it's informed by something else. I like stuff like that.
quote by Cillian Murphy

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Killing time is perhaps the essence of comedy, just as the essence of tragedy is killing eternity.
quote by Miguel de Unamuno

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Way of the Mantis
Here is our thesis animation completed at RIT.
It is the story of an impetuous Chinese monk who finds he has a thing or two to learn from an unlikely source. The animation is rendered in a brushpainted style reminiscient of old Te Wei films.
The difference between tragedy and comedy: Tragedy is something awful happening to somebody else, while comedy is something awful happening to somebody else.
quote by Aaron Allston

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Theo does comedy now, and he's traveling around the country doing comedy, and I actually just saw him, he's from Louisiana, and I just saw him when I went home to visit my family in Louisiana. I saw his comedy show and he was brilliant.
quote by Trishelle Cannatella

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If you're sitting in your minivan, playing your computer animated films for your children in the back seat, is it the animation that's entertaining you as you drive and listen? No, it's the storytelling. That's why we put so much importance on story. No amount of great animation will save a bad story.
quote by John Lasseter

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Radiated With Animation Witnessed
Too brave I have been to be innocent.
Too inquisitive and experimental...
With an unresting daring to live and learn.
I've conquered some fears.
Yet I am aware and too conscious,
Of a powerful existence.
Radiated with animation witnessed,
I am part of but did not create.
And 'this' greatness has my deepest respect!
poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar

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Bravery And Courage
Bravery hurts me when my nature builds into another nature,
The pain attached to the pain has burdened the skill of my mind.
Courage has to be a reliable attribute to recommend the youth,
The burden of taxation is upon those people who earn.
Be valiant and brave to be a collection of power,
This is so much of your heaven, this empowers us.
Pain and suffering will overpower and deliver comedy,
This cheerfully expanded the empires of civilisation.
Brave people hinder the satanic offspring,
And those smaller devils are not brave.
poem by Naveed Akram

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And the sad truth is that nobody wants me to write comedy. The Exorcist not only ended that career, it expunged all memory of its existence.
quote by William Peter Blatty

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Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both existence and non-existence to something that transcends them both; this is an observation of the Middle Way.
quote by Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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I prefer that animation reach into places where live action doesn't go, and it seems like all of animation nowadays is trying to go where live action is.