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Woo! Sandra and Woo in 3D COLOR!
Welcome the new colorist of Sandra and Woo, Lisa Moore. She will color all new strips as well as all the comics in the archive. After coloring a couple of selected strips from 2009 and 2010, she will start with strip #1 in October.
Lisa Moore is currently a colorist of the Darkwing Duck comic books. Lisa also has a very nice looking personal homepage/blog.
I received around 70 applications when looking for a colorist for Sandra and Woo. Lisa was my first choice in the short-list consisting of 5 artists since her style seems to be perfect for our comic. I’m sure she will do a great job at coloring Sandra and Woo in the future. Apart from the new strip, she has already colored the following strips in the archive:
I’m not sure if everybody will get this strip, so here is Wikipedia’s introduction to the concept of simulated reality.
One of my earliest childhood memories was the inspiration for this strip: When I was 3 years and 2 months old, I was terrified by days (or rather nights) of the Chernobyl disaster. When talking to my parents about it, I called it a fictional “salt tower” and remained rather vague about the details, although I knew that it was called a nuclear power plant and that some kind of “radiation” was involved. I think I didn’t want them to know that I already understood some parts of the TV news and that I was worried about such a real event.
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- Yuna: Daddy?
- David: What’s wrong, my little angel?
- Yuna: If someone could make a video game with superduper realistic characters, that would imply that we’re almost certainly video game characters as well!
- Yuna: I don’t want to be a video game character!
- David: Don’t worry, Yuna. There hasn’t been any significant progress in the field of artificial intelligence in the last few decades.
- Yuna: Really?
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WHAT SORCERY IS THIS?!? COLORS? I have only heard of them in stories, but, they are real!
I think she also does the colouring for Spy6teen, another webcomic I read every update. Small world.
I usually don’t like uncolored comics to be colored, that ruins the “atmosphere”, but this coloring isn’t removing nor adding nothing bad to the comic, i kinda like it 😀
Wait, there hasn’t?
Now I won’t be able to sleep. :[
David confirmed to have Deadpool and Pinkie Pie power, to see through the 4th wall.
David: Don’t worry Yuna, we will never be turned into video game character!
Yuna: Really?
David: Yeah! because we’re webcomic characters!
Yuna: What?
David: And we only exist in Monday and Thursday!
Yuna: What?
David: Well, if we’re successful enough someday we will be printed on paper, so we will turned into comic book characters!
Yuna: Daddy, you scare me….
David: And if we’re really popular we probably turned into a video game!
*Yuna back down slowly*
David: And you *wear sunglasses* will forget about all of this! *pull out a small device that create a blinding light*
David: Sigh, Amnesia ray, work everytime, now Yuna, don’t worry too much, we’re not video game characters, it’s just a nightmare, time to go to sleep dear.
*Yuna blink*
Yuna: Goodnight daddy.
David: goodnight sweetie, sleep tight. *hug Yuna*
She has watched Matrix recently? (I first have to adjust at the colors).
Colours…ON A REGULAR BASIS!?
AWESOME!
Simple answer to her question: Cogito ergo sum.
finally, you got a colourist, also, can we start voting for sandra and woo on a regular basis?
thanks.
Ah the impossibility to prove that we aren’t a simulation or a dream an amusing topic. (Luckily perfect video game characters don’t imply that, they would just imply that it’s possible du simulate us. Which is good since I will get annoyed if nobody manages to create a AI during my life time. (I mean what a normal person would understand under AI not the scientific definition))
While I most definitely love the colors, would it be possible to have the original B&W versions available?
1- I think it’s funny the way her dad look “at us”
2- wow…colors…I can say it’s a good work sir…and I use “good” cuz I’m not a professional who can say “perfect” and point “mistakes”….but for me…is a well done work…keep going sir…
wow colors…. nice
but i will trully miss the dithering patterns… they really have to go…. for the color to work properly?
are the OO in woo on top of the page… pony-coloured?
like every time i click them they get the 2 colours of the mane6… and i think derpy was among it too
Well, this is a change… A nice change that I’m looking forward to 😉
lol, I really loved the way David looked at us, the viewers. XD Another great page once again!
@ trebthegamer:
I think the same and would say, Derpy is definitely there.
Zero-ELEC wrote:
Agree with you, maybe special for donating folks?
First, AI is constantly advancing (mostly in specific-area research, rather than generalised AI, though).
Second, going from “we can make a simulacrum” to “we are a simulacrum” is one hell of a logical jump.
Thirdly, we could be simulacrums without being able to make them ourselves. This is nothing new in the world of philosophy.
“I don’t want to be a video game character!”
and her name is Yuna….
(and her brother name is “Cloud”)
Now now, I’m sure at least one person has modified their Sims to resemble the characters from this comic. If that where the case then it’s too late, she would already be a video game character.
>_< Its funny because her name is Yuna. jkjkjk
Was about to ask if you could include links to uncoloured for those of us who prefer it on some strips, but then I realized:
How bloody hard could it be to uncolour a comic?
Id like to ask one simple question sir Novil.
Did you ask US the fans if we would like this new trend in the comics? I for one and I’m sure I’m not the only one loved the comic as it was.
Maybe i missed it or maybe you never asked 🙁
http://www.simulation-argument.com/simulation.html
WAAAH! MY EYES! The googles do nothing! XD
I’ll need some time to get used to these new
dimensionscolors, but all in all I already love them. :3BTW you could’ve just said Matrix and everyone would’ve understood the whole thing… I know that was the first thing that came to my mind.
you know, i think there are some that shouldn’t be in color. like the strips where sid is recalling his mother. some just feel like they belong in black and white. please, for stories with intense/touching storylines like that, leave them alone please. <:)
Ah the colors, It hurts my eyes!!
A few minutes later.
i luv teh colurz.
@Novil
Please don’t colorize all of Sandra and Woo! I mean it worked so well for Ted Turner and classic movies… right? I for one love Powree’s pencils and think that color just ruins it.
Although, color every once in a while can be a good thing. Makes a otherwise routine strip feel… special. The coloring on this strip, for example, its not that bad. But I feel it detracts away from Powree’s pencil just a little too much. I spent most of my time hypnotized by the wallpaper in the background.
So please, I implore you, do not colorize all of Sandra and Woo. Or at least give us a choice and post a link to the black and white version.
Thank you
and I did lol @ work.
I’m gonna reread everything when its colored, but it’ll surely take awhile
Your new colorist is Lisa Moore?
I’m gonna go read another website for a while until the urge to make a Comics Curmudgeon reference is passed.
Nice coloring. I was imagining him as a true blond, but brown works well for him as well. The wall paper pattern is nice, but a little busy. If you get the different colors one or two shades closer it won’t be so busy. Otherwise it’s great.
sweet! both Yuna and the colors 😀
And Davids face in 3rd pannel is priceless XD
I’ll also reread everything when it’s done 🙂
COLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOORRRR
PRETTY COLORS XD
@ Icalasari:
that’s not true…First they make it as an old S&W webcomic Black and White…then just go to photoshop….and put the colors….
…Wow. I got answered in the comic’s blog entry. I’m honored
Also “wow” at the colors
This COLOUR thing will just be a fad. Next thing you know we’ll have talkies. Ha ha ha!
Incidentally, not sure if you’re being serious or not, but I just have to mention that in the feild of AI studies there have been some MAJOR discoveries and improvements in the last decade alone, including but not limited to AIs showing actual creativity.
Wait… Where are the thumbs up/down buttons in the comments? You mean I can’t giva comment a thumb up anymore? DD:
Hehe Sure there hasn’t.
http://science.discovery.com/videos/brink-package-artificial-intelligence-arrives.html
As of May 1 2011
@ Pained:
they’ve removed the comment rating plugin since it cost too much performance.
This looks like faulty logic, using logical conclusion methods when dealing with probabilities. For example: “Ice is cold” implies “If something is not cold, it is not ice”. This works because it’s dealing with certainties or their negations. If you instead work with probabilities, this doesn’t work. Example: “A catholic person is probably not the Pope” doesn’t imply “The Pope is probably not a catholic person”.
If you have an untestable statement, you have a meaningless statement, unless you find a way to test it. If you take “God created the world last Thursday” you could argue that you have memories from before last Thursday, and reject the statement. But “God created the world last Thursday, complete with memories and stuff that people would have used in the past, and so on” is unrefutable because it’s untestable.
So I would say the simulation argument doesn’t hold water – and besides, I happen to know we really live in the 4th and last part of Mark Twain’s great SF tetralogy (all four contain normal families with members thrown into world events: the beginning of WW I, Normandy, the events of 1968, and now the first term of the first black president). It was published incomplete posthumously, because Twain never found a satisfying ending, so it just stops on December 21, 2012…
We could be in the Matrix, the biggest online videogame.
You know… The new banner has some very interesting colored o’s in the name “Woo.”
@ trebthegamer:
This. The Mane6 + Derpy are totally in the o’s.
Oh no… Color?! ONE STEP CLOSER!
Wait… LIFE IN TECHNICOLOUR!!
If anything, Now I’m worried that I’ve imagine the colours of characters wrong, and I’ll have to adjust to new ones…
Nah. It’ll be worth it!
Woohoo! Colors! AWESOME!
@ Bucc-i:
I understand what you mean and although I like the change to colored I’d miss the original black and white style so I support your idea of a link to the original style. 🙂
Good thing AI hasn’t improved recently, or we’d all be, as they say, in jeopardy. 😛
HURRAY! Color! Welcome colorist!!!
Woo! Color!
And was that a sad knowing look into the 4th wall David gave there?
Wait… WHERE ARE THE VOTING THUMBS!?