Pencil Test - Behind the Scenes

[2migell]

cool wath program do they use for the animation?

it looks very cool

thnaks

[MtnViewMark]

Thanks for digging this up!! That's me at about 9'30" in. Let me know if I can answer any questions about this, I'd be happy to. And, er, yeah, looking at yourself on video from 20 years ago is creepy!

[psivewri]

I have one of the macs they used to make this with, the Apple IIx

[kargaroc386]

Aldus Super 3D

[Testexperimento]

ha ha ha ha a video last year?

[thebestdayeversong]

That seems like a really fast system.

[kargaroc386]

System 4!

if they did this on system 4, then System 4 is better than system 6.

[linuxlove4004]

lol HAX R US

Aparently Apple had a good sense of humor back then!

[bushjumperpete]

So apple creates this two years after pixar creates Luxo Jr, bravo apple, well done

[Kargaroc286]

96 days to render lol modern computers would render that in real time

[drivojulianrobotnik]

That was on a 16mhz 68020,2mb RAM, and the nonmultitasking System 4.

Also, the software was new.

[kargaroc386]

i know what the hardware was. i wasn't trying to me mean or anything. i am just saying that even though mac II computers were cutting edge back then, they really are pathetic compared to today's mac machines.

[HubmaN1234]

Ohhhhhh. So that's where the Pencil 3D Test came from!

[wilkinsonproductions]

Please Start Uploading all those tapes you showed us in the closet, It is truely worth it, Your videos are so awsome man!

[Nokorola]

That's good that they found a way to overcome the 4mb ram limitations on the mac.

[Zakske]

Please continue to open up your treasure chest of old skool Apple stuff.

[femicastudios]

Cool stuff! Thanks for sharing.

[adiblasi]

Glad you enjoyed it. We've come a long way!

[ddalesssio]

as usual... unvaluable material. I remember how amazed i was when I first saw this animation in 1991.

Thanks!

DD

[adiblasi]

Thanks DD. I'm still digging more stuff 'out of the archives' to share, so stay tuned...

[pistolero18]

Wow.. not bad for the good old days.

[nicoladagostino]

Interesting: the credits roll features a line with "Coach - John Lasseter"

nda

[3Deity]

Jeez - This is painful to watch! God bless NURBS, rigs, NLA, deforms and weight maps!

[jchiaro]

that is insane...for being such old technology the skit they made is incredible.

[wfd1234567]

"advanced Technology" LOL this is fantastic

[CrazyTobster]

That amazing. Today there Blender which is free because that created it closed down and decided to put give Blender and GNU License so that it is still maintained and upgraded, free to download and use and state of the art. check it on the Net it is now a massive Open Source project. They make money from things like publishing the User Guide Book and donations and stuff.

[lynkonline]

holy crap....thats pretty amazing concidering its ancient technology, very, very impressive!!!

[diejoekool]

wow fucking amazing, BTW do you know of a easy way of learning how to modelate in 3D?

[theCro]

amazing, please find even more archive old vids

[SirTom909]

nice one alfred!

whens the NeXT video coming buddy??

[adiblasi]

Damn, I knew someone was going to ask for that.. .and the Lisa in use video. I am trying to find that damn NeXT cable. I should have NEVER divorced it from the actual machine.

[fixman88]

It's amazing how they did all that! I wonder how they linked all the computers together for the final render? (FibreChannel hadn't been invented yet ;) )

[jackpierce10]

is it just me i noticed what they where doing there where on performa like machines, not apple ][s though i must say jesus all credit to them for doing that on apple ][s and system 7

[adiblasi]

No, not Apple II's -- they were using Mac II's - that series of machines. There might have been some Performa's in there - not sure what year they came out - but they said that they even brought in machines from home to make the 'rendering grid'. Amazing.

[Rjnicko]

still looks good even today

[thelocalscene010]

WOW! Thanks for posting mate.. That was awesome- Our kids will never know the crap that developers went through to start revolutions. My goddaughter who is 6 didn't know what a cassette was yesterday. ahh analogue.. oh and that makes me the Godfather :P

[MacNerd1239]

What's up with the quality?

[adiblasi]

Hey MN - the footage I had was a QuickTime video compressed at a size of 232 x 168 at 12 Frames per second. I imported it to iMovie, which decompressed, as best it could, converting it to DV - it was then recompressed for YouTube. Yes, it's grainy, but watchable!

[MacNerd1239]

Yep, just watchced the whole thing. Good To Know. When I used my Apple II GS I had no idea how to do that stuff.

[HyperPhantomCow]

It's pretty old.

[neogeosnkplaymore]

Great post!!

[cooldude27109506]

cool!

[frasier13]

You know... you gotta look back and think this is ONLY 9 years ago and that's just frightening!!!! It's amazing how far we have come in such a short amount of time.

I'd love to show this to the spot faced, PS2 generation of today and see their reaction lol

Another master piece resurrected by the Legend!!! lol

[cphadley]

I think this is actually 19 years old. It looks like AL put 1998 in the description by accident. Still amazing to think how far we have come in such a short amount of time!

[adiblasi]

Ooops. Thanks for finding that typo - but look at it the other way -- look at what we did in 1988 with 25 mhz machines with 4 megs, not gigs, but megs of ram. Holy cow! And now we have $99 3-D rendering programs that crank this stuff out in minutes. Amazing! Thanks for watching!

[DMXell]

Don't forget the free open source 3D rendering program, Blender :-P

[cphadley]

Very impressive for 1988.

[tripplehelix]

Where do you get these from?

[adiblasi]

Tom, I go back a long way with Apple as a dealer/reseller and developer. I just never throw anything out -- glad I didn't. Is this video incredible or what?

[tripplehelix]

It's awesome, definitely shows how computers have developed.