About the Project:
Client: ATRAXIA
Year: 2015
Starring: Chris Paul Smith, Hayden Bishop, Van Morrow
Music by Matt Cox & Trey Morrow

-Official Selection: South Carolina Underground Film Festival 2018
-Winner: Best Music Video – Sci-On Film Festival 2016
-Official Selection: Y’allywood Film Festival 2016
-Official Selection: Drunken Film Fest 2016
-Official Selection: East Coast Film Festival 2016
-Official Selection: Ozark Shorts

Our lonely hero leaves his home on Earth for a surreal journey through space. What awaits at his destination?

About the Production:
“Up Here” is a live action and stop-motion music video for Atraxia. We shot the live-action sequences in two days with an awesome cast and crew of volunteers. The video’s science fiction aspect introduces stop-motion animation of our little spaceship amidst planets and stars. To create the animated sequences, we used a rostrum stand to shoot stop-motion sequences against a green screen, which allowed us to layer sequences together in post (e.g. the ship and the stars). For the astronaut and dinosaur characters, we brought in the talented Dan Fowler to illustrate. Although we could have digitally animated these characters, we printed, colored, and cut-out paper dolls to pose and animate them in a way that would feel consistent with the rest of the animation.

©2015 Atraxia