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Pencils Vs Pixels

For us, the pencil test is thefirst reveal of a performance, in its rawest form

For us, the pencil test is the
first reveal of a performance, in its rawest form

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For us, the pencil test is the first reveal of a performance,
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in its rawest form.
Duration
13 seconds
Views
70
Timestamp in Movie
00:05:29
Uploaded
Apr 16, 2025
Genres
documentary, biography
Production
Minutehand Pictures,Hideout Pictures,Pencilish Animation Studios

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Movie Summary

It is a celebration of the unique magic of 2D hand-drawn animation and an exploration of how the Disney of the late 1980s and early 1990s led to an animation boom that was quickly upended by the computer animation revolution that ...
A pencil test is when you find out how bad you are. - Pencils Vs Pixels 00:05
A pencil test is when you find out how bad you are.
When I was in college, when I first started in this business, - Pencils Vs Pixels 00:10
When I was in college, when I first started in this business...
So you would shoot, hope to God you timed it right, - Pencils Vs Pixels 00:09
So you would shoot, hope to God you timed it right,
As painful as it might be, it gives you - Pencils Vs Pixels 00:09
As painful as it might be, it gives you
But for an animator, you have to know what that period of time - Pencils Vs Pixels 00:10
But for an animator, you have to know what that period of ti...
It was rough and wild, but the forms had weight. - Pencils Vs Pixels 00:07
It was rough and wild, but the forms had weight.
And I thought that to get it work at Disney, to animate, - Pencils Vs Pixels 00:11
And I thought that to get it work at Disney, to animate,
I didn't know it was possible to animate like that. - Pencils Vs Pixels 00:05
I didn't know it was possible to animate like that.
Something pretty amazing about a pencil - Pencils Vs Pixels 00:07
Something pretty amazing about a pencil
And really the artifice or the fact that it was drawn - Pencils Vs Pixels 00:07
And really the artifice or the fact that it was drawn
When you just have stacks of paper, - Pencils Vs Pixels 00:12
When you just have stacks of paper,
A first peek, it's kind of birth, if you will, - Pencils Vs Pixels 00:08
A first peek, it's kind of birth, if you will,
So there's a vitality that is in the very first pencil test - Pencils Vs Pixels 00:10
So there's a vitality that is in the very first pencil ...
And it's coming out of your hand and it's going onto the paper - Pencils Vs Pixels 00:06
And it's coming out of your hand and it's going on...
And those lines are going to define - Pencils Vs Pixels 00:09
And those lines are going to define
But it's not just going to define it as an image, - Pencils Vs Pixels 00:06
But it's not just going to define it as an image,
You're using height, width, depth, and time. - Pencils Vs Pixels 00:05
You're using height, width, depth, and time.
And all of those to create something that lives. - Pencils Vs Pixels 00:07
And all of those to create something that lives.
WEN: 2D hand-drawn animation is one of the most incredible - Pencils Vs Pixels 00:13
WEN: 2D hand-drawn animation is one of the most incredible
We all have our first film that we - Pencils Vs Pixels 00:09
We all have our first film that we