Tom Krcha - Pencil just crossed 100,000 users! Today we are introducing SWARM mod
Pencil · Feb 2026 · 0:49 · AI-annotated
- Length
- 0:49
- Scenes
- 18 · 2.8 s avg
- Product on screen
- 0:04
- Call to action
- 0:41 · 83%
- Voiceover
- No
Pencil’s 0:49 launch film runs 18 scenes, about 2.8 s each. The product shows up at 0:04. The call to action lands at 0:41 (83% in). A dark, near-black product film built around a single design canvas: a typed brief summons a swarm of named agent cursors that fill artboards in real time, then a second brief repeats the pattern for social posts and a mobile app. The pacing is steady and observational, with slow zooms out of the interface, drifting colored cursor chips, and a monospaced type-on close (tagline, download line, then the pencil.dev wordmark) that lands the brand.
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Tom Krcha - Pencil just crossed 100,000 users! Today we are introducing SWARM mod, scene by scene
· 18 scenes as text
01 · Hook · 0:00–0:04
A dark interface close-up shows a prompt typed into the input bar about a surf club and coffee shop site. A cursor clicks the 1x control, a Parallel Agents menu opens, and the cursor picks 6x.
Techniques: Cursor demo
Camera: Static
02 · Demo · 0:04–0:08
A close-up of a chat prompt about a surf club and coffee shop brief zooms out to a dark canvas with three page frames. Named agent cursors glide across the frames as the Menu Page gains a header and OUR MENU title, while agent chat lines stack at the bottom.
Techniques: UI zoom, Cursor demo
Camera: Static
03 · Demo · 0:08–0:12
A dark design-tool canvas shows three artboards, Homepage, Menu Page and Baristas Page, while named agent cursors (Cosmo, Breeze, Sage, Echo, Ember, Hex) move across them and the frames fill with a hero photo, headings and cards.
Techniques: Cursor demo
Camera: Static
04 · Demo · 0:12–0:16
A dark design canvas holds three web page mockups side by side. Colored agent labels named Ember, Breeze, Sage, Cosmo and Hex drift across the frames, while a chat bar at the bottom fills with short messages and selection outlines snap onto the pages.
Techniques: Cursor demo
Camera: Static
05 · Demo · 0:16–0:17
A dark design canvas holds three coffee-shop web pages (Homepage, Menu, Baristas) side by side. Colored AI agent cursors labeled Breeze, Cosmo and Hex move across the frames and nudge cards, while the right-hand properties panel and a bottom activity log update in real time.
Techniques: Cursor demo
Camera: Static
06 · Demo · 0:17–0:19
A close-up of a dark interface panel floats on a white background, its prompt bar at the bottom. White text types out letter by letter, building the phrase design social media posts and mobile app, next to a yellow bolt icon, a 4x label, and a circular up-arrow button.
Camera: Static
07 · Demo · 0:19–0:20
A dark design-tool canvas shows a grid of surf-and-coffee website mockups next to a properties panel, with five Generating post cards filling in along the bottom. Small colored labels with cursor arrows hover over the cards as a caption slides in.
On-screen text: “design social media posts and”, “mobile app”
Techniques: Cursor demo
Camera: Static
08 · Demo · 0:20–0:24
In a locked-off view of a dark design app, the five post cards fill with photos and headlines as colored agent cursors hover over the canvas and the bottom chat log updates.
Techniques: Cursor demo
Camera: Static
09 · Demo · 0:24–0:28
A locked-off view of a dark design canvas holding five coffee-shop artboards. Four named agent cursors, Reef, Ember, Breeze and Coral, glide between the boards, selecting frames and dragging text while a chat log streams their notes along the bottom.
Techniques: Cursor demo
Camera: Static
10 · Demo · 0:28–0:31
A dark design-tool canvas shows a grid of website artboards for a surf café. Named AI agent chips, each with a colored tag and an arrow cursor, drift across the layout and select different artboards, while a status bar at the bottom types their comments.
Techniques: Cursor demo
Camera: Static
11 · Demo · 0:31–0:36
A dark design-tool canvas shows four artboards generating in real time; colored agent tags with cursors (Flare, Sage, Orchid, Nova) move between frames as each screen fills with content, while a finished barista page with photos sits on the left.
Techniques: Cursor demo
Camera: Static
12 · Demo · 0:36–0:36
A dark design-tool workspace shows a website mockup left and four phone screens center generating layouts, with a properties panel right. Colored agent labels (green Sage, purple Orchid, pink Nova) drift over the screens as content updates.
Camera: Static
13 · Demo · 0:36–0:41
A dark design-tool canvas displays a grid of coffee-shop website screens and social posts. Named agent tags in colored chips drift across the layout while the view zooms in and a properties panel slides in from the right.
Techniques: UI zoom, Cursor demo
Camera: Static
14 · CTA · 0:41–0:44
Small still “NOW OPEN” and “Mirage AI” labels hold on a black field while the centered line “Autonomous Design Agency” types out letter by letter with a trailing underscore cursor, then rests.
On-screen text: “NOW OPEN”, “Mirage AI”, “Autonomous Design Agency”
Techniques: Kinetic type
Camera: Static
15 · CTA · 0:44–0:45
A locked-off black frame centers white lowercase monospace text that types out 'Downl_' letter by letter, a short underscore cursor resting at the end.
On-screen text: “Downl_”
Techniques: Kinetic type
Camera: Static
16 · CTA · 0:45–0:46
On a black background, the white monospace line “Download Today” types itself out character by character with an underscore cursor, then holds centered in a locked-off frame.
On-screen text: “Download Today”
Techniques: Kinetic type
Camera: Static
17 · Outro · 0:46–0:48
White monospace text reading “Download Today” sits centered on a black field, then the line is replaced by the brand wordmark “pencil_”. The frame stays locked off throughout the short sign-off.
On-screen text: “Download Today”
Camera: Static
18 · Outro · 0:48–0:49
On a black field, the lowercase monospace word pencil.dev sits centered. The trailing letters fade up from gray to white, completing the sign-off, then hold on a locked-off frame.
On-screen text: “pencil.dev”
Techniques: Kinetic type
Camera: Static



