POKLAD - the mountain trail that becomes the game board
    All workCase study / 2026 · Broadcast & online

    Two TV campaigns and a festival film for the Czech lottery, all from one AI pipeline. Aired, not pitched.

    ClientAllwyn Česko
    IndustryLottery & scratch cards
    Year2026
    Formats6 s · 15 s · 47 s · 2 min · 16:9 + 9:16
    TV spotsFestival filmImage-to-videoCharacter castingAI voice-overSound design & masteringVertical cutdowns

    Allwyn runs the Czech national lottery. In spring 2026 it launched a scratch card that unfolds into a board game, an Easter ticket trio, and a partnership with the Karlovy Vary film festival. Every one of them needed a film that would pass a broadcaster's technical acceptance, carry the mandatory responsible-gaming bar and read as a real product ad, not a tech demo. We made all of them.

    The brief

    A product ad with rules, not a mood film

    Lottery advertising is regulated down to the frame: warning strip, age limit, no alcohol on the table, the ticket exactly as printed. The POKLAD scratch card is also a physical board game, so the spot had to explain the mechanic - open the ticket, walk the trail, roll, scratch, win the gold brick - in fifteen seconds, and again in forty-seven.

    Easter was the opposite problem: three tickets, one emotion, six seconds. The client wanted a new spring tradition rather than a promotion, so the film had to be warm first and product-forward second, and it had to cut down to a six-second bumper without losing the reveal. KVIFF was a third kind of job: a two-minute festival film with a hero who walks through the real Karlovy Vary.

    Film 01 · POKLAD

    A scratch card that is also a board game

    Four friends open a ticket at the kitchen table and step into a mountain trail drawn on it. The world of the game is generated, the ticket is the real artwork, the hands and the coin are real scale. The 15-second version ran on TV and online; the 47-second version explains the rules in full.

    Long version · 47 s · how to play
    Two POKLAD tickets on a table by candlelight
    Friends around the POKLAD board
    Storyboard · four acts

    The whole spot fits on four sticky notes

    Act 1

    The flat

    The ticket arrives, friends open it at the table and are pulled into the game.

    Act 2

    The trail

    A mountain path inside the ticket. They are in the game and they see the gold.

    Act 3

    The game

    Setup, dice, paper cut-outs on the trail, the fun of playing together.

    Act 4

    The win

    Scratch, reveal, the 1 kg gold brick, joy, logo.

    Act 2 · the trail becomes the map
    Act 2 · the trail becomes the map
    Act 1 · four players, one ticket
    Act 1 · four players, one ticket
    Act 4 · scratch reveal, Czech icon labels
    Act 4 · scratch reveal, Czech icon labels
    Act 4 · the win
    Act 4 · the win
    Casting without a casting

    Four locked characters, one living room

    Two men and two women, each locked with a full-body character sheet before the first shot, so faces and clothes hold across every generation. The flat was rebuilt after the first client round: no beer or wine on the table, soda with lime instead. The board itself is the client's print artwork, placed into the scene, never re-drawn.

    Character sheet - Man A
    Man A
    Character sheet - Man B
    Man B
    Character sheet - Woman A
    Woman A
    Character sheet - Woman B
    Woman B
    POKLAD board artwork as printed
    Los · print artwork
    Close-up of a player smiling at the table
    Akt 3 · 4K close-up
    Film 02 · Easter

    Three tickets crack open like eggs

    Three Easter eggs with the Allwyn mark on white linen spin, split and become the three tickets - Easter Bounty, Golden Fleece and POKLAD - before a pink bunny shows up in a spring meadow. The 15-second spot and the 6-second bumper share every asset; the bumper is the reveal alone. Both ran in 16:9 and 9:16.

    Bumper · 6 s
    Eggs on linen
    Eggs on linen
    The crack
    The crack
    Meadow · the bunny ticket
    Meadow · the bunny ticket
    Packshot · three tickets
    Packshot · three tickets

    A new Easter tradition. Give luck a chance.

    End line of the campaign. The tickets are the client's print artwork, the eggs, the linen and the meadow are generated.

    Two storylines, one shipped

    The butterfly lost to the eggs

    Version one followed a yellow brimstone butterfly from a cracking silver scratch surface through a spring meadow past the three tickets and up into the sky, where the slogan sat in the clouds. Version two put three eggs on linen and let them crack. The client chose the eggs: the product is on screen from the first second and the crack is the reveal. The butterfly survived as a texture in the meadow shots.

    V1 · the butterfly
    V1 · the butterfly
    V1 · spring meadow panorama
    V1 · spring meadow panorama

    Delivered: 15 s and 6 s in 16:9 and 9:16, a text-free set for local versions and three music extensions. Stems for every mix.

    Film 03 · KVIFF 2026

    One man's day at the film festival

    Allwyn was the partner of the 60th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, and the festival wanted a film, not a spot. Ten scenes follow one man from the colonnade to the drone show: he scratches a ticket, the dream starts, he walks past the Thermal with a spa wafer, watches a Formula 1 car on the red carpet from the Allwyn stand, sits in the Allwyn cinema, catches the golden hour on the terrace, watches the open-air screening with a wristband on his arm, and ends under 1,300 drones over the town. Two minutes, 4K, cut from one locked hero.

    Allwyn KVIFF 2026KVIFF 2026 · 4K master
    Ten scenes
    1. 01Colonnade, the seed of magic
    2. 02Scratching, the dream begins
    3. 03Spa wafer, the walk
    4. 04Red carpet and the Allwyn stand
    5. 05Formula 1 at the Thermal
    6. 06Cinema, the Allwyn experience
    7. 07Terrace, golden hour
    8. 08Open-air cinema and wristbands
    9. 09Drone show, the finale
    10. 10Night return
    Scene 1 · colonnade
    Scene 1 · colonnade
    Scene 5 · Thermal
    Scene 5 · Thermal
    Scene 4 · the crowd
    Scene 4 · the crowd
    Scene 8 · open-air cinema
    Scene 8 · open-air cinema
    Scene 3 · the walk
    Scene 3 · the walk
    Scene 2 · the dream
    Scene 2 · the dream
    Scene 4 · Allwyn stand
    Scene 4 · Allwyn stand
    Scene 2 · the tickets
    Scene 2 · the tickets
    Karlovy Vary, the festival crowd in front of the Thermal
    KVIFF 2026 · Thermal
    One hero, ten locations

    The festival is real, the man is locked

    Every location is the real Karlovy Vary: the colonnade, the Thermal hotel, the terrace, the open-air cinema. The hero is one character sheet, a man in his mid-thirties in a linen shirt, carried through all ten scenes as a reference. The McLaren on the red carpet, the wafer, the wristband and the festival ticket each got their own sheet, so props stay identical from shot to shot. Five extra vignettes - the F1 car, the safety boxes, the lenses on the square, the claw machine, the man who won the globe - were cut for the on-site activation.

    Hero character sheet
    Hero · sheet
    Formula 1 car sheet
    F1 · prop sheet
    Spa wafer
    Oplatka · prop
    60th festival end card
    60 · end card

    Delivered: one 4K master (2 min), five vignettes for the activation, a 60th-edition end card.

    The approach

    Directed like a shoot, finished like broadcast

    Every campaign started with the print artwork and a one-page storyboard, generated as labeled contact sheets and then pulled apart frame by frame. Stills came from Nano Banana at 2K and 4K, motion from Kling, Seedance and Veo with the approved frame as reference, sound from ElevenLabs and a stem-mastered mix. The last mile is where TV work is won: legal bar, loudness, safe areas, a 9:16 re-frame of every shot, and a stems delivery the client can re-cut.

    POKLAD printed board artwork, the playing field and the legend
    POKLAD · herní plán z tiskových dat
    Beyond broadcast

    What you cannot see here

    Since spring 2026 we also produce explainer and concept films for Allwyn's international lottery teams across four markets. Those go into consumer research, carry other brands and stay under NDA, so they are not on this page. Ask us on a call.

    What we delivered

    Ten masters, two orientations, one pipeline

    01

    POKLAD · TV + online

    15-second spot with a second voice-over pass and a 47-second how-to-play version. Both as 16:9 broadcast masters and 9:16 verticals, plus stem-mastered audio.

    02

    Easter · TV + online

    15-second spot and 6-second bumper in 16:9 and 9:16, a text-free set for local versioning and three music extensions.

    03

    KVIFF 2026 · festival film

    One two-minute 4K master and five short vignettes for the on-site activation in Karlovy Vary.

    04

    Compliance built in

    Responsible-gaming bar, age limit and ministry warning composited to broadcaster spec; the ticket artwork used as printed, never redrawn.

    The numbers

    What aired

    3campaigns on screen
    10final masters, 16:9 and 9:16
    ~1MYouTube views, POKLAD 15 s
    10KVIFF scenes, one locked hero

    POKLAD and the Easter spots went out on TV and on Allwyn's own channels in March 2026; the POKLAD spot alone is approaching a million views on YouTube. The KVIFF film ran with Allwyn's presence at the 60th festival in July, and alongside it we produced the event visualisations and previz Allwyn used to develop its stands. The same team now works with Allwyn's international product teams, which is the best result a first campaign can have.

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