Pencil-Test

[dontbeinlov]

Sad face, He never got back in the computer.

[vilomutsunos]

thats had to be made by pixar because Steve Jobs is a cofounder in pixar or at least used to be and they just made this animation using mac computes

[TheCGIMaster]

lol i luv how theres only 9 keys on that keyboard 1:02

[stormsirens2]

awesome amazing when i saw this a few moths ago i saw the credits andrew stanton and john lasseter were apart of this (disney pixar)

[artymex]

I've always considered this animation really clever and fun (and even more if we consider that we are talking about an animation made on an Apple II computer when the computer generated videos were no like today's ones -there were no such a specialized software like the ones available today-).

[thebestdayeversong]

Apple is funny!

[thebestdayeversong]

I'm surprised they didn't make Pixar do this.

[PowerExpress]

Apple had no relationship with Pixar back in those days.

[juananteojos]

The coach was John Lasseter actual director and the chief creative officer of Pixar. Min 3:15.

[roots4x]

I remember watching this back in the 90s and thinking it looked pretty good. Definitely looked better back then, lol.

[InnocentzRaptor]

Pretty good...for a mac >_>

[appleinfl]

It's from the late 80's smartass

[InnocentzRaptor]

Oh, shut up, Macfag. Go run a shitty computer that can't even play games.

[appleinfl]

I'd leave a longer comment, but I'm to busy playing Call of Duty 4 on my MacBook

[yomomma8acookie]

how did this get so many veiws?

[killadah727]

too fuckin loud

[Escudo56]

andrew stanton the director of finding nemo and wall-e directed this.

[Kargaroc286]

i wonder how long this took to render

[chaucer44]

Hay Hater.  If you notice the Credits, this was coached by John Lasseter -you know, the pixar guru.

[castoro83]

Ahah!!!! very funny!!!!!!!

[tilseboys]

This computer was the Macintosh 128K.

[urkeldude]

Actually, my guess would be that is was the Mac SE. They have the same case mold, but the SE came out at the same time as the Mac II.

[z0mgStfu]

whehe =)

[snemei]

oh, sad...

[flufflesthepancake]

search pencil case wars, for my more insane version...

[pinkygirl1999]

cute:)

[noname180795]

poor pencile

[GigaMykes13]

awesome vid.

[GetYouSomeDay94]

aaaww the little pencil was soo cute ! <3 i want to eat him up.. i felt sooo sorry for him when i did'nt get in to the computer againxD

[DMXell]

This video was posted exactly a year ago from my time of writing this :-p

[R3DW8TTAr]

Test

[VampireLibrarian]

I posted this to my blog. Fun video!

[HubmaN1234]

What a freakin' pun... (not a pencil test... but a pencil, test.)

[Smiley0xMiley28]

hah!

[loshunter]

So whats the story behind this? It has a few big Pixar names attached to it. Was this one of the commercials the studio was doing while they were making their short films?

[tylerlavite]

it was a video made on a mac ll to demonstrate the type of power it had back then before QuickTime and when computers only had 16MB of RAM

[christo930]

@tylerlavite The computers had only 4mb of ram. There is a "making of" pencil test which explains how it was done. They had over 30 mac IIs with 4mb of ram working in parallel to render this and it still took days.

[Bennyboyage]

gr8 vid tho

[Bennyboyage]

on 3.04 when the pencil is about to jump to the computer, the sounds are a bit out of tune

[fionatheamazing]

i used to have a really amazing old mac. now i have a new, sucky windows :D

[cjaybee]

George Lucas started Pixar, then Steve Jobs bought it from him.

John Lasseter has just been a big director/writer for years. He directed Toystory.

[iLara]

that was good ..poor pencil...

[ryanjewell]

Here's a little tidbit. Nancy Tague, in the credits, went on to be Mrs. John Lasseter (Founder of Pixar).

[mactoys]

I have been friends with the pencil for MANY Years...all my vintage Apples work just fine.

[fixman88]

This video is incredible work for 1988! The pencil is really funny and cute!

[Blackqri12345]

Great job whoever who did it. Very creative. ^-^

[xacrox]

why are there only 9 keys on the keyboard... and why is the "real pencil" look all funny... other than that this is pretty crazy... for 1988!

[deadsheeptotheleft]

i really feel for that pencil. i could relate to that pencil. i think i'll shut up now

[HubmaN1234]

"John Lasseter"? Isn't he the big boss at Pixar?

[tylerlavite]

yes he is

[RABBIDGamfan]

AAAAAUGH! THE CHAIN MAILERS ARE BACK!

[tylerlavite]

the chain mailers make me want to stab people... sorry but the chain letter bull shit pisses me off its fucking youtube not myspace

[kickmyface22114]

wow this blew peoples minds back then i could do that now

[videogameknowitall]

The Apple II could do that?...Wow! that pretty neat! :-)

[tylerlavite]

yeah the it is amazing at how power full them machines where.

[BUDOKAI1]

XD i didnt even know they had comps back then

[missbooyaka]

Oh, come one guys... thi is a great video!

Heck, it's older than me! :D

[tylerlavite]

thanks man :)

[ZeroFission]

wasted time, what does it mean? goofing around with a graphics program, very cartoonish, dumb!

[tylerlavite]

its peol like you who discust me, people on the internet who do nothing but watch videos and then have to make rude comments. this video is history it shows how far we have come in technology this video was made on a mac 2 a long ass time ago... on a computer with about 16MB of RAM and a 16Mhz processor instead of your crappy computer that you all take for advantage,

[CptDaveLister]

Hmm people on the internet who do nothing but make crappy videos... woohooo.

What have you accomplished in this world?

[tylerlavite]

hey dumb ass i did not make this the people at apple computer did why dont you read the info on the video you god damn idiot

[tylerlavite]

im assuming you have never used an animation program, because you cant goof around with an animation program and make something like this. something like this takes allot of skill to do. not something you do in one hour. learn something before you make assumptions.

[videogameknowitall]

I'm just saying that it was pretty neat that the Apple II could do that, and thanks for posting!

[videogameknowitall]

Sorry which one of those comments were aimed at me?

[tylerlavite]

i told you thanks for saying it was a nice video. the comments that i was gripping on was to "CptDaveLister" not you. thanks for posting. it is a great video :)

[os3476]

@CptDaveLister Also, the Internet didn’t exist when this one was made. That’s a hard concept to grasp, isn’t it? No Internet, thus no Internet trolls, thus no you. I miss it a bit right now.

[tylerlavite]

you never look at the stuff that got you what you fucking have today. so dont go commenting on stuff untill you know what it fuckign means! dumb ass

[snikpl]

it's fake

[tylerlavite]

thats the dumbest thing i have ever heard

[Beatlemaniagirl]

I JUST don't get it.

[tylerlavite]

it was a video made on a Macintosh 2 it had a 16MHZ processor and about 8MB of RAM this video was made to demonstrate the power of the Macintosh. and its very impressive for a computer almost 16 years old and the speed of it compared to what we have today.

[kitmusiclver]

aww poor pencil cant make it back :(

[princessdana99]

Poor little pencil! He can come live on my desktop. :o)

[PatrickTheHatTrick90]

wow the quality is amazing considering how old it is.

[versechorusheart]

Macintosh computers actually are the best.

I don't understand why they don't get more recognition for their gretness. Everyone has pcs these days.. =/

NOT ME =DD

[Kaerfz]

Macs FTW.

the only place they fail in is gaming. T_T Sadly enough.

[versechorusheart]

Yeah, well they'd be great at games if anyone could be bothered to make them. They don't have many but the ones I have played are great.

For instance I reckon MYST is 100x better on mac.

[Kaerfz]

I think we have the super-old MYST but I only tried to play it once with my sister and I was what, 7 then? But yeah. Cosmic Osmo... my favorite old school Mac game.

[benquid]

This animation reminds me of Luxo Jr.

Apple even had good advertising back in the day.

[tylerlavite]

take a look at the rest of my videos i have tons of old apple ads! i have the videos uploaded eaach have about 4 or 5 apple ads on them!!

[DeReCk120]

lol

[hassanpenchuri]

tak dok bende pun?

[Tonyp8]

I loved the credits especially the money spender

[lanz0r4tehwin]

The credits seem like Joke credits. I mean, Rock Stars, Carpenters?

[tylerlavite]

lol some of them where kind of joke credits but its interesting since people from Pixar are listed in thh credits. this was before Steve Jobs ever even thought of Pixar

[Saannin]

the pure little pencil *sob-sob*

[tylerlavite]

lol he never made it back home. he broke the screen at the end of the video.

[womendominate]

that's so sadd.

[ipup12345]

i defenietly like the i-pod commercials better

[tylerlavite]

this was not a commercial this was demonstration to show off the capability of the Macintosh II for a computer with 16MHZ processor and about 8MB RAM this is damn impressive

[TheFireboat]

1988 is when I got my Apple IIgs. It's amazing to see this kind of CGI available at that time. Thanks for sharing.

[TheFireboat]

1988 is when I got my Apple IIgs. It's amazing to see this kind of CGI available at that time. Thanks for sharing this.

[aegismachina]

what, watch the credits man, way too many people, there was even someone in there for wardrobe.

[tylerlavite]

some of the credits are kindof a joke its Apple one reason why i love Apple they make everything they do fun and enjoyable

[gangsta287]

maybe thats cause they dont take their buisness seriously

[tylerlavite]

they take the business seriously they enjoy everything they do and have fun while doing it and they are perfectionist unlike microsoft who just tries to get everything out in a sertin time set and never takes there time.

[gangsta287]

What wrong with mircosoft sticking to buisness?maybe thats why microsoft p0wns apple

[tylerlavite]

yeah Microsuck p0wns Apple HA HA is that why they stole from them in the first place? and there NEW VISTA has all of this new stuff that Apple has had for years?

[Mandskull]

Like what? Besides cool looks.

[tylerlavite]

they actually work

[Mandskull]

Oh, so Microsoft stole actually workingishness from Apple, wow...Are you sure they didn't steal it from say, B.C. Rich or someone? Because alot of companie's things actually work. In other words, you may have too be more specific what they stole.

[tylerlavite]

why dont you learn the actualy history of Apple & Microsoft and Steve VS Bill.. im not going to get into an OS war here on youtube. im stiking with the fact that Apple beats the hell out of Microsuck and Winblows~! i want something that actually works and can get the job done without crashing every hour and i chose mac because it works unlike every god damn windows PC i ever had!

[Mandskull]

My PC doesn't crash, and my outlook works nicely and tells me as soon as I get an email, which in this case is your reply. So I don't know what version you were using or what kind of crappy hardware some idiot hooked you up with, but don't blame it on windows.

[tylerlavite]

i blamed it on the hardware and windows i blame it on all of the damn windows PC's ive owned every single one of them was shit! the compaq the toshiba the gateway all of them sucked! i bought a MacBook and its way better then any other computer i have ever owned if windows works for you then fine i don't care... use what ever you want i use Mac, its what i prefer.

[Mandskull]

Three words. Build your own. Don't look for pre built stuff. By the way, ever since MACs changed the processors in their hardware they've actually been PCs, since that was the only thing different from them.

[tylerlavite]

its not that i dont like the hardware in PC's its the OS Windows i cant stand windows i just never liked it ever since i ever first got a computer i did not like it. the only windows i ever liked was Windows 3.11 windows for work groups it was very stable and ran quite well.

[Mandskull]

Well, I can't blame you for liking the mac os, it's a lot more of an attractive interface. Anyways, I'm done arguing.

[mads4shane]

poor pencil :(

[Calehearn]

ha ha ha i love pencils

[giecokid1218]

so how does that poor pencil get back into the computer?

[tylerlavite]

i don't think he did i think he broke the screen at the end of the movie you can here glass shattering

[giecokid1218]

oohh yeah i didnt notice the shattering glass when i watched it b4

[giecokid1218]

so how does that poor pencil get back into the compter?

[BelYo]

ohhh...I´m so glad using Maya ple... It must be so timeconsuming at 1988 to do an animation!

[Aquajem]

it's funny

[Natural20Films]

Amazing what they could do even in 1988.

[grandnewbien]

We have come one hell of along way. Thank you people who made Unreal Engine 3!

[jellzang]

what the hell

[Jacksamuelz]

Must have taken months to render no?

[SinShyne]

does anyone actualy know what software was used to make it? i am an animator myself- using 3Ds max and would love to know more about earlier 3D animation techniques

[tylerlavite]

Super3D was the application used to make it. but ofcourse they did not have quicktime back then so it was put onto film frame by frame.

[fletchsketch]

whats the difference between a geek and a man with constipation?

they both work it out with a pencil

*cymbol crash*

[hiker64]

Some memories for you. In 1988 Windows 2.0 was Microsoft's contribution to the arena. 16 Color 14" EGA monitor was the monitor to have. Word for Dos 4.0 was the wordprocessor, or Wordperfect was even more popular. Excel for DOS 1.0 just made its debut but Lotus 123 had the marketshare, and if you had a 2400 Baud modem, you were God. The "Stoned" virus was just starting to show up and Netcom was about to bring something that would be brand new to most consumers... The Internet.

[Lalabadie]

Wordperfect was awesome until Corel bought everything Microsoft didn't have already.

[happyface161]

i have a macintosh computer, how did you make this?

[tylerlavite]

i my self did not make this, Apple Computer made it to demonstrate the power of the Mac II

[stazberi]

Heh... that's pretty cute. I'd praise the creators of the clip rather than the Mac II itself though, after all... it's them who worked out how they could get the best out of the machine.

[realchaos1]

lol it is truly a treasure

[grahamstoner]

Reminds of Dire Strates; Money for nothing.

[No1Grandfather]

Thats a brilliant job for 1988 mac capabilities.

[smartalec247]

its better than shrek

[tomhormby]

How could the Amiga 1000 possibly do this? It was roughly as powerful as the original Macintosh, but drove a larger color screen (taking up more performance). This was amazing for 20 year old equipment and makes me kind of want an Macintosh II (if only to play with the software used to make the demo).

[2G00D4W0RDS]

wow u could have done that in flash

[tylerlavite]

they did not have flash back in 1988

[omfgzhax]

does this make you want to buy it? no

[tylerlavite]

it was never meant to make you buy it. it was to show off the power of the Macintosh II

[pokepres]

well considering this was done in 1988 yeah it prob. would

[moebis]

Yeah the Amiga computer would have done all of this in Real-Time, not rendered. Still miss Sword of Sodan, 4096 colors, 4 voice stereo music on a 1985 computer. I think PC's had 4 colors and a beeps for music back then, plus it could multitask. Mac II still cool though.

[adiblasi]

The Amiga was AMAZING. What was that video product - Video Toaster, which used the Amiga as the main 'module' for doing video editing? Cool stuff.

[42hiker]

Remember in Wayne's World when Garth is wearing a Video Toaster t-shirt? His bro was one of the people who developed Video Toaster and Dana Carvey wore the shirt to help promote the system :)

[tylerlavite]

i never heard of the Amiga i looked it up today looks cool. hey Al guess what one of my friends works for the church in are town and the catholic school has a closet full of about 50 old mMcintosh computers that they dont use he is going to see if i can have them! lol that would be awsome 50 Macintosh computers!

[adiblasi]

Tyler -- your parents are going to THROW YOU OUT! LOL! Please get the video camera RECORDING when you tell your mother that you will be bringing home 50 OLD MACS! LOL! THAT will be GOLD! - Alfred

[tylerlavite]

lol oh don't worry i will. if that school is like sure take as many as you want i will "hey mom the school says i can have all 50 Macintosh computers" she will freak out.

[snottob]

that wold be about the same as ummmmmmmm 1 ps3 or 50 macintosh computers

[frasierdog2]

probably took a month to render

[stephenpayn]

Dang where can i get that sweet keyboard at?

[pezjohnson]

Did you see that some of the names during the end credits as the big people at Pixar and Disney. Namely the "coach" John Lasseter (The big guy at Pixar, other than Steve Jobs) and "illustrator" Andrew Stanton (director of Finding Nemo)

[scstraus]

My Amiga would have schooled this back in the day. Mac II's were weak!

[shrontzy]

Sounds like the soundtrack came from The Sims...

[hellpheonix]

on a macII...an eternity of rendering lol

[johnesco]

many times better than this can be done on the smallest computer now in real time yet this was processed frame by frame. Wow things have changed. Of course good computer animation still takes hours per frame but look at what is output now!

[DiggisGay]

ISnt this a dupe like everything on Digg.?

[leisurist]

Notice John Lasseter, the head of Pixar (and now Disney Animation) is listed in the credits. Wow.

[leapingfrog0]

Video is cool and all, but I hate when people tack slow, scrolling intros to their movies. a complete waste of 30 seconds.

[adiblasi]

Ahh, c'mon. You should havve seen the freakin FIVE minute intro I put on my LISA video, which made the front page of Digg. This was short! LOL! - Alfred

[tylerlavite]

hey Al! lol i woke up this mourning and saw this! lol my most commented video! your Lisa video made the front page of digg? thats awsome!

[NihilFist]

This was in 1988? They had this kind of graphics back then?

[42hiker]

Ever heard of Amiga?

[kruykaze]

Great graphics.

[zyjeklon]

You're on the front page on Digg. Congrats. :)

By the way, this video is fantastic.

[adiblasi]

Yes, I remember this. It was VERY well done! Thanks for sharing! - Alfred

[tylerlavite]

very amazing to think this was done on a Macintosh II very great machines! i have an animation program on my Macintosh Classic i need to mess around with it some time.

[quartekoen]

nice..