In summer 2018, World of Tanks introduced a new line of vehicles coming from Italy. To support the release and raise extra awareness among the audience, we reached out to the footballing legend Gianluigi “Gigi” Buffon to become the official ambassador for the debuting tank nation.
As a culmination of the mutual work, we created “Football Match”, a mini movie starring Gigi and set in somewhat late 80s—early 90s, the childhood period for a typical World of Tanks player. Analogue and valved in every detail, the movie reaches its climax, when the iconic goalkeeper faces real, fearsome tanks on a football pitch.
With this movie, we tried to bring our players to their earliest years and recapture the bright memories of their past. And, as many of World of Tanks players are keen football fans, showing their longstanding idol helped draw even deeper immersion into the storyline.
Credits
Head of Publishing Product Management | Dmitry Fedoruk
Business Development Director | Natallia Asipovich
Business Development Director | Natallia Asipovich
Publishing Director | Maxim Chuvalov
Product Manager | Alexey Ilyin
Product Manager | Alexey Ilyin
Marketing Production Manager | Anton Yurkovets
Head of Strategy, Global Marketing | Aleksas Drozdovskis
Communications Strategist | Nikita Zavgorodniy
Art Director | Viktar ShakunCreative Copywriter | Tolstik Nikolay
Account Manager | Veronika Yudenko
Creative Producer | Nona Sisakyan
Director | Sergey Protasovitskiy
Director of Photography | Jan BormanProduction Designer | Gena Tumelevich
Sound Designer | Yauheni Sukhavei
Sound Design Team Lead | Pavel Rapinchuk
CG Supervisor | Andrey Bogdanovich
Video Art Director | Dmitry Lutsko
CG TEAM | Andrey Lustiber, Alexandra Semenova, Dmitriy Golovach, Dmitry Popok, Ilya Klishin, Konstantin Brailov, Konstantin Nalobin, Nikolay Skolkov, Ruslan Bespalyy
Motion Design Supervisor | Andrei Andrushevich
Composers | Viacheslav Cho-Din-Cho, Vitaliy Saganovich
Video RnD Director | Aleksandr Antoshuk
Motion Designer | Dzmitry Hrubin
Colorist | Aliaksandr Krysko
Marketing Communications Team Lead | Sergey Foris
Copywriters | Kseniya Osipava, Denis Shlykov, Nadezhda Pertsova, Nikolay Tretyakov
Key visual artist | David Merrell
Recognition
