Pixar's 'Up' House Would Need a Lot of Balloons to Fly in Real Life

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In “Up” that divide is evident between the early scenes, which tell Carl’s story with extraordinary tenderness and brilliant narrative economy, and the later scenes of him as a geriatric action hero. The movie opens with the young Carl enthusing over black-and-white newsreel images of his hero, a world-famous aviator and explorer, Charles Muntz (Christopher Plummer). Like the opener of “Wall-E” and the critic’s Proustian reminiscence of childhood in “Ratatouille,” this is filmmaking at its purest. This video uses an impressive computer simulation to show what 31 million balloons would look like in real life. The CGI balloons are shown riding the currents of the wind like a floating, rainbow sea. Blowing up all those balloons would be impractical for an entire team of people, not to mention one elderly man living alone.

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We’re not sure that many balloons even exist. Online records also show Azzarello worked for Strong Towns, a nonprofit media advocacy group. His employment history, however, appeared to have been removed from the website Friday afternoon. On Friday, Azzarello joined other protesters, Trump supporters and media who have been stationed in Collect Pond Park outside the downtown Manhattan courthouse as Trump’s “hush money” trial gets underway.

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But you know how the saying goes, “Kids, don’t try this at home.” Part of the fun of this video is seeing the VFX recreations of what it would really look like to life a house high up in the air this way. Let’s just say you probably wouldn’t want to look down. As Nerdist reports, the video below from Corridor Crew visualizes exactly how many balloons it would take to carry a house in real life. Pete Doctor, Up's director, says in a clip that the team settled on around 10,000 balloons after realizing that obeying the laws of physics would make animating the film impossible. One more simple calculation — 100,000 pounds divided by 0.067 pounds per cubic foot — and you've got that it would take 1,492,537 cubic feet of helium to lift the house.

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We called Wolfe House Movers, which specializes in moving old structures and had Kendal Siegrist, a manager, take a look at the images from the movie to see how much the house might weigh. As in their finest work, the Pixar filmmakers have created thrilling cinema simply by rifling through its history. In its opening stretch the new Pixar movie “Up” flies high, borne aloft by a sense of creative flight and a flawlessly realized love story. Its on-screen and unlikely escape artist is Carl Fredricksen, a widower and former balloon salesman with a square head and a round nose that looks ready for honking. Voiced with appreciable impatience by Ed Asner, Carl isn’t your typical American animated hero.

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For comparison, Cleveland, Ohio, set a record for biggest balloon release ever in 1986, and that event featured just 1.5 million balloons. Even that amount was enough to ground airplanes, cause traffic accidents, and send the city into general chaos. Generally speaking, though, using helium balloons? It’s probably not so much a good idea for lifting a real house off of its foundations. But a giant vacuum balloon, 75 meters wide? Now, that could conceivably do the trick here.

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In the two cases above, the volume of the air displaced does not change. This is because the balloons are in the air in the house. (Remember, I already said that I see that this NOT how it was shown in the movie). So, if you (somehow) had enough balloons to make your house fly and you put them IN your house, your house would float before you let them outside. The YouTube channel Film Theory calculated that 31,150,319 party balloons would be required to lift a house off the ground like we see in Up. That's a hard number for most people to wrap their heads around.

Unlike most stories about leaving home, Up needed a house that would go along for the journey. The Pixar team treated Carl’s house like a film character, touring vintage Oakland and Berkeley neighborhoods to cast for the right mix of comfort and familiarity, with just a touch of melancholy. “We were trying to make Carl’s house look like your grandparents’ house smelled,” explained Producer Jonas Rivera. The world of Up began with the thought of escape. Deep in the jungles of Paradise Falls resides a dog pack on a mission to capture a rare bird that their master is pursuing.

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If you're looking for fun jumper rentals, you're in the right place. What is clear is the thing that is providing the buoyancy is the air. So, the buoyancy force is equal to the weight of the air displaced. In this case, it is mostly the house, all the stuff in the house, the balloons and the helium in the balloons.

I figure this will be insignificant next to the buoyancy needed. Anyway, let me go ahead and recap what has already been done on this in the blogosphere. A high school class is finally learning kinematics and getting excited.

We carry a large selection of Holiday balloons and balloon drop kits. We have a large number of “No Helium Required” options available. So, going back to the scaling, this would make the height of the house 29.5 meters or 96.79 feet. I haven't seen the Pixar Movie "Up" yet, so don't spoil it for me.

However, it seems like the balloons may have been attached outside the house to the ground or something. This is a shot from Video Tracker's built in analysis tools. They are really good, I should have been using these the whole time (I used to export the data to Vernier's Logger Pro).

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They tend to use bigger balloons, say, six feet in diameter. Carl’s epic adventure required a destination both fantastic and plausible. When Director Pete Docter happened on a television documentary about the mysterious tepuis of South America, he discovered the perfect world to explore. The massive mile-high plateaus in Venezuela are among the most uncharted places on Earth. Pixar sent a team of artists for a look, and the film's bizarre rock formations, exotic flora, towering waterfall, and fog-shrouded labyrinth can be traced to tepui landscapes. So fantastic were the images, Docter wondered if the very real Tepuis might look too incredible.