Apple's Mac II Pencil Test

In 1988, Apple was eager to show off the graphics power of its Macintosh II line of computers. Using a program called Super3D, a group of talented artists produced "Pencil Test," an animated short created entirely on the Macintosh. Keep in mind that QuickTime did not exist in 1988; the movie was output frame by frame to an imagesetter, and then recorded to film.

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[Hgh0st]

Entirely on Apple II's!

Thats amazing!!

[bubbaradio]

Andy, these guys Rock!

AND, have done well since '88:

Check The Credits:

Andrew Stanton; Directed & Wrote Pixar's WALL-E and Finding Nemo. Standon graduated from CalArts in 1987. He studied character animation at the school.

John Lasseter; Founding member of Pixar, & personally directed Toy Story, A Bug's Life, Toy Story 2, and Cars.

John is also the chief creative officer @ Pixar and Walt Disney Animation Studios

I think theses guys could have made this on my old Colecovision...lol

[blakegriplingph]

Nowadays an average PC, or a smarphone, perhaps, can render that in real time. Of course it was an achievement back then.

[LalalandIsfun99]

this reminds me of pixar short films haha lol

[AdrianoCROST]

@Halterung01 Macintosh II not Macintosh SE. Macintosh II was much more powerfull (real desktop computer with 16 Mhz CPU and RAM up to 128 MB, not all-in-one like first Mac or Mac SE). Really powerfull machine at that time.

[sirrvs]

Did this remind anyone else of the Pixar lamp short?

[sonicnumber11]

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[sonicnumber11]

@andyroo54 No I'd have to say that it is entirely possible on a Macintosh II. 3d was allready it's infancy during the late 1980's. Pixar has been around since 1984 The year the mac was born! Although yes ugly by today's standards, back then it was a marval of creativaty, particularly since it was verry dificult at that time to create and even more difficult to render. At that time it could take a whole week to render just one frame. Today it takes pixar over 90 hours for one high res frame!

[Hgh0st]

@TheROBReviews That definitely makes a difference hahaha, didn't think about it :D

[TheROBReviews]

@Hgh0st He means MACINTOSH IIs.

[LNERMallard]

That's gotta be the world's smallest computer keyboard XD LMAO

[craponnaruto]

Didn't Pixar make this with the Macintosh 2 to promote it?