Though not a national film, the 2009 Disney-Pixar animated feature Up prominently features settings in Venezuela's national parks; the setting was chosen after the director, Pete Docter, was shown a video of the tepui mountains of Canaima National Park. The production spent a lot of time researching the landscape: in 2004, Docter and eleven other Pixar artists spent several days accessing and illustrating Mount Roraima. During the nights there, they examined the native ants, mosquitoes, scorpions, frogs, and snakes; however, many of the real critters were not put into the film, with Docter saying that they would seem too unrealistic for the setting — animals created for the film were said to be challenging to design, having to fit into film realism whilst being both surreal and real enough for the grand environment of the fictional and real tepuis. After visiting Canaima, the animators flew to Kukenán-tepui and climbed to Angel Falls, the film's iconic image.