This Way Up by Smith and Foulkes

Laying the dead to rest has never been so much trouble.

This Oscar Nominated short is directed by Smith & Foulkes and written by Foulkes, Smith, and Christopher O’Reilly, and produced at Nexus by Charlotte Bavasso and Christopher O’Reilly, the film follows two dour unfortunates as they battle a series of misadventures while trying to deliver a coffin to the graveyard.

The animated caper is a series of emotional and literal pitfalls for the pall-bearing team, as their journey and relationship unravel on an epic scale culminating in the pair joining the old lady in a trip through the underworld.

‘This Way Up’, was nominated for an Oscar® for best animated short at the 81st annual Academy Awards.

Before its Oscar win, “This Way Up” won numerous awards at film festivals around the world, including an Official Selection at the Sundance Film Festival, the Public Prize for Best Short Film at the 2008 Ottawa Animation Festival, the Audience Award for Animated Short at both the Palm Springs International Film Festival, and the Mundos Digitales in Spain.

Full Credits Below:

Directed by Smith & Foulkes

Written by Smith & Foulkes and Christopher O’Reilly

Produced by Charlotte Bavasso and Christopher O’Reilly

Co-producer Christine Ponzevera

Production Company Nexus Productions Ltd

3D Animatic and Layout Nicolas Domerego (Supervisor)

Ben Cowell

Simon Landrein

Stuart Doig

Antoine Bourruel

3D Modelling & Texturing Darren Price (Supervisor)

Michael Greenwood

Vincent Fiere

Ben Bigiel

Alison Bond

Nicolas Domerego

Simon Landrein

Kuba Gryglicki

Benjamin Devaux

Guillaume Julien

Character Set-up and Rigging Luis San Juan Pallares (Supervisor)

Miguel Garcia Lluch

Michael Greenwood

Rudi Hammad

Background Digital Painting Adam Willis (Supervisor)

Florian Mounié

Justin Atkinson

Pipeline TD Luis San Juan Pallares

Storyboard artist James Husbands

Technical Director Mark Davies

CG Animators Reece Millidge

Stuart Doig

Steve Brown

Antoine Bourruel

Mélanie Climent

James Wilson

Mark Davies

Roly Edwards

Dominic Griffiths

Boris Lowinger

Lighting and Rendering Nicolas Domerego

Simon Landrein

Maelys Faget

Florian Mounié

Jerome Haupert

Ludovik Boden

Guillaume Cassuto

Darren Rolmanis

Visual Effects and Compositing Fletcher Moules (Supervisor)

Sheldon Gardner

Jerome Haupert

Dylan White

Navid Bagherzadeh

Clayton McDermott

Kwok Fung Lam

Cloth simulations Lora Jensen

Render assistant Jens Blank

Sound designer Andre Jacquemin

at Redwood Studios

Re-recording Mixer Craig Irving

at Twickenham Film Studios

Voice over artists Marc Silk (Son, Granny, Red demon)

Chris Grant (Dad)

Original music by John Greswell and Christopher Taylor

for MPM London

Arrangement by Andy Mellon

Music Consultant Jonny Trunk

Existing music Song ‘Happy Weekend’

Sung by Ray Merrell

Composed and written by Jack Fishman and Roy Budd

Published by JHP & Mood Media

Head of Productions Julia Parfitt

Studio Manager Theano Kazagli

Production Manager Jo Bierton

Head of 3D Ben Cowell

Nexus Productions support Denise Abraham

Matt Archibold

Tim Dillon

Ben Hunt

Ian Mansel-Thomas

Thana Shanmugam

Matt Shepherd

Alice Wigley

Special thanks to Mike Judge, Don Hertzfeldt, Rebecca Moline,

Nicolas Schmerkin

A Nexus Productions

Made with the support of BBC Films, BBC Comedy & BBC Film Network

for BBC Film Network

Executive Producers Claire Cook and Gerard O’Malley

Creative Head, BBC Comedy Kenton Allen

for BBC Films

Executive Producer Beth Richards

Production Executive Matthew Vizard

with the support of The Animation Show

Co-production : Arcadi

(Action régionale pour la création artistique et la diffusion en Ile de France)