Pencil Test is also an animated short from
Apple Computer in
1988.
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.
The
plot is this : There's a classic Macintosh running
MacPaint. The
pencil tool jumps off of the
pallet and onto the
real world desktop (becoming
colorized in the process). The pencil then has some
adventures on the desktop, and then more trying to get
back onto the
screen.
It can be seen at http://www.uriah.com/apple-qt/pencil-test.html