Pencil Test - Behind the Scenes

This is an incredible look behind the scenes on the creation of Apple's animated short, "Pencil Test", which was entirely rendered on Mac II computers back in 1988.

This incredible but of footage was from the QuickTime V1.0 CD.

Enjoy!

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Apple
• Pencil
• Test
• Mac
• Macintosh
• Animation
• Graphics
• 3D
• Steve
• Jobs
• Woz
• Wozniak
• Alfred
• Alfred.tv
• Metadestroyer
• Adiblasi

[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...

[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.

[drivojulianrobotnik]

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

Also, the software was new.

[linuxlove4004]

lol HAX R US

Aparently Apple had a good sense of humor back then!

[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.

[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.

[bushjumperpete]

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