Game promos can sometimes feel like corporate clickbait made in Unreal Engine, but giving Nobody director Ilya Naishuller free rein to sell World of Tanks: HEAT to gamers starts feeling less like a glossy sales video and more like someone handed the filmmaker a pile of tanks, a punk track and complete freedom to make the most chaotic two minutes imaginable, and honestly, that’s probably not far from the truth.
Best known for using GoPro cameras to film Hardcore Henry and the brutally fun Nobody, film director Naishuller brings the same energy and 'how did they even shoot that?' camera work to World of Tanks – hint: it's pre-rendered. But the team still needed to mix the director's style for unique camera motion and shot building with the technology, which meant not using Wargaming’s engine.
