White Plastic Sky is a hybrid between live-action and animation, made with the rotoscope technique: hand-drawn over actors by a team of animators.
When a few years ago we sat together in the most beautiful park of Budapest on Margit Island outlining the basic concept of White Plastic Sky, we didn't dare imagine that one day, so soon, reality would resemble our fictional story so much. Or that we would be making a post-apocalyptic movie during days of an actual real "apocalypse". Climate crisis, climate refugees, pandemic, war, energy crisis. The “Poly-Crisis” has become part of our lives now. Science-fiction is always about imagining a possible future. Yet White Plastic Sky seems to match what is happening right here, right now.
We started to see the film in our minds during the writing process. The story determines the animation style, and one has to follow what the story wants. Our story contains a deep emotional journey, and we believed from an early stage of development that only real actors can play our characters to achieve those emotions. We cast amazing actors from Hungary who were really enthusiastic to participate in such an interesting project. The big task was how to transform the acting into animation without losing any nuances. We did not use any computer software for the rotoscope, all drawings were made by the hands of very skilled artists, and these sensitive drawings not only preserved the acting but added another layer of a different artistic value to it.
- Tibor Bánóczki, Sarolta Szabó