Pencil Test - Behind the Scenes

Cool stuff! Thanks for sharing.

Wow.. not bad for the good old days.

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

nda

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

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

"advanced Technology" LOL this is fantastic

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.

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

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

amazing, please find even more archive old vids

Awesome footage alfred! Thank you for sharing!

-Rodrigo

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.

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.

nice one alfred!

whens the NeXT video coming buddy??

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 ;) )

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

still looks good even today

It's pretty old.

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

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.

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!

What's up with the quality?

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

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

Great post!!