Automata Silverside: Thursday, November 13th, 2014 - Page 8

Sterica

It's good to come prepared.

I needed anime to post.

this is a good page

Funky Strong

What do you guys think Carl sounds like? For some reason in the first Automata strips, I imagined him sounding like the Robot Ghost of Christmas Past from ATHF, except somehow not supposed to be funny. Like he speaks out of really loud and shitty speakers. I'm not so sure what he sounds like anymore, I basically alternate between various robot cliches in my head.

belligerent

I hear a more digitized version of Jarvis in my head.

Menasor

I hear Legion from Mass Effect

TychoCelchuuu

Steve Urkel.

Bursar

The Grand Galactic Inquisitor, but with less pomposity and more '30s police talk, see?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6y2gdLDzjt0

Or your basic HAL 9000.

Goatmon

Oh shit more Automata!

This just made my day.

Pony

David Hyde Pierce

dunno why

just is

Goatmon

That would be an interesting choice.

H3Knuckles

Something between David Hyde Pierce (Niles Crane) and John Glover (Gremlins 2, Robocop 2, Riddler in Batman the Animated Series, Lionel Luthor in Smallville); intellectual and refined without being snotty or foppish. With moderate flanging effects like Mass Effect's Turians.

Or Michael Ansara (specifically his performance as Mr. Freeze in Batman the Animated Series, but a little less severe in delivery), and heavier on the flanging than the above option.

Invertin

Huh. I never actually thought about it now that you mention it. Until now, I just had the generic 'the mental voice that I read things in', which is just a sort of bland accentless nothing voice.

I'd probably go for standard 'talking computer' voice but maybe with extra 'noise' and bad sound quality. What about Clickwise, what do you guys think it sounds like? I thought of it as ticking noises, like someone using a typewriter very quickly.

Cambiata

To me Carl sounds like GERTY from Moon:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84Ewj-BOBuc

GDT1985

For some reason I think of a dial-up modem when they speak clickwise. I don't think that makes much sense though.

Pony

Invertin wrote: »

Huh. I never actually thought about it now that you mention it. Until now, I just had the generic 'the mental voice that I read things in', which is just a sort of bland accentless nothing voice.

I'd probably go for standard 'talking computer' voice but maybe with extra 'noise' and bad sound quality. What about Clickwise, what do you guys think it sounds like? I thought of it as ticking noises, like someone using a typewriter very quickly.

anything i read becomes a voice in my mind

not instantly, of course, it takes time for a voice to develop

about as long as it takes for that character to develop

once i have a sense of who that character is, and i have a sense of what i think they would sound like, then my mind just mentally assigns them a voice and that, in my head, is how they sound

PAX_Skeletor

+1 to GERTY over here.

Commander Zoom

I'd say Hyde-Pierce is close, but not quite.
To me, Carl's voice is rather mild, a touch on the refined side, little accent and very human (no flanging or processing), especially for coming out of that slot of a mouth.

TheCanMan

I can't decide if I hear HAL or Sunny from the Will Smith I, Robot. I think it's probably the latter.

Commander Zoom

Yeah, I think Tudyk as Sonny might be what I'm hearing too. Thanks!

McFodder

Yep, I had the mental voice for him but couldn't think why - I, Robot is it.

RatherDashing

I picture the horrible annoying voice from Flight of the Navigator. And now you all will share my burden.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjv7k54YTa0

forty

Paul Reubens, annoying!? How dare you, sir!