Tapping into vintage Soviet animated propaganda for inspiration, Misha Petrick and his Berlin-based crew spin up a fully unique in-game cinematic for Mundfish’s first-person shooter Atomic Heart.

Petrick animation director Ilya Buzinov: “Atomic Heart tells the story of an alternative reality during the 1950s and originates from the development of robotics and advanced technology during the Second World War.

“This cartoon is used within the game and demonstrates how the key game mechanic, the polymer glove, works. In its implementation, we wanted to approach the propaganda videos for Soviet pioneers. We reviewed many Soviet cartoons to get the style and compositions of that time”.
 
 

 
Client: Mundfish

Production: Petrick
CD: Misha Petrick
Director: Ilya Buzinov
Creative Producer: Nadya Petrick
EP: Polina Fufarova
Producer: Alena Antonyan
Character designer: Dima hlcll, Arseniy Popov, Valery Zarytovsky
Background designer: Sasha Belyayev
2D Animator: Igor Oleynikov, Arnas Khabi, Karina Pogorelova, Anastasia Turaeva
Cleanup/Painting: Liza Rukus, Milena Leonova, Igor Oleynikov, Karina Pogorelova
Compositing: Ilya Buzinov