Up Movie Research Video:
Director Pete Docter in the
REAL Paradise Falls

Like all Pixar films, the Up movie needed to be researched so that the look and feel of the place would be authentic. The films each present you with a world that you know in a way that you've never seen it before.

The landscape in Up is portrayed accurately. In Venezuela, South America, there are these high table-top mountains called tepui that are so tall they make their own climates. Clouds swirl around them and blow off to reveal the sun. Rock formations are strange with otherworldly landscape.

Pixar director Pete Docter takes us on the journey with him and other Pixar artists as they have an adventure of their own, visiting the tepuis of Venezuela and the arduous journey of just GETTING there.

They also take us to Angel Falls, the tallest waterfall on Earth and the one that Paradise Falls is modeled after. Angel Falls is so high that by the time the water reaches the ground, it is only mist.

This video clip is called Inside Up: Discovering a Lost World.