SWOP

Children's series 12 x 10 minutes

During the entire COVID pandemic I had the pleasure of working with the amazing 'Job, Joris & Marieke' again.
Together with a great team of talented people, we've been working on 'Kop Op', an animation series for Dutch TV Broadcaster VPRO. I was part of the 3D modeling team and together we created hundreds of assets that were used to build all the sets for animation. It was a great pleasure to be working on this amazing series.

Three friends, Sef, Wesley and Marjory, find an abandoned washing machine that seems to possess mysterious powers; it lets you swop your own head with someone else’s. This presents the three friends with a range of possibilities. There’s always a new reason to swop heads but it goes without saying that swopping heads never is the right approach. But once they’ve swopped heads, they are literally able to see the world through different eyes and that enables them to ultimately resolve their own problems.

 The series was based on our Emmy winning short film Kop Op. 
For Dutch people: watch the whole series on NPO.

Credits:
Directors: Job Roggeveen, Joris Oprins, Marieke Blaauw
Writers: Lotte Tabbers and Luuk van Bemmelen
Based on the ideas of Job, Joris & Marieke
Producer: Viking Film
Co-producer: VPRO and Job, Joris & Marieke
Financed by: NPO fonds, VPRO, Netherlands Production Incentive
Senior producer VPRO: Pita de Leeuw
Editors VPRO: Martien Vlietman, Anna van der Staak
Line producer: Chris Eimers-Mouw
Pipeline TD and system administration: Jasper van Nieuwenhuizen
Animation supervisor: Sem Assink
Rigging pipeline TD: Willem-Jan L. van Rootselaar
Grading: Serhan Meewisse 
Production assistent: Esther Schmidt
Budget controlling: Frank Klein
Animation: Carolien Bakker, Lewis van der Werf, Roel van de Sant, Ronald Toes, Sem Assink, Willem-Jan van Rootselaar, Casandra Johnson 
Modeling: Eric Smilde, Kornelis van der Bij, Rachel Rietjens
Interns: Tara van Rooy, Pieter Schillemans, Michelle Boudewijns, Marloes de Graaff, Manon van Laarhoven, Koert Roelfsema 
Music: Job, Joris & Marieke
Music mix: Martijn Groeneveld
Voice recording, foley, sound fx and mix: Jeroen Nadorp - Bob Kommer 

Cast:
Sef: Nasrdin Dchar
Wesley, Gerard: Steye van Dam
Marjory: Paulien Cornelisse
Anne, teacher, balletteacher: Fockeline Ouwerkerk
Jamal, Rafik: Iliass Ojja
Said: Sabri Saad El Hamus
Maryam: Rachida Iaallala 
Laetitia: Manoushka Zeegelaar Breeveld
Stine: Loes Schnepper
Bert, hairdresser: Huub Smit
Laila, vlogger: Soundos El Ahmadi
Zoef, Hans, dentist: Wart Kamps
Jayden, Quincy: Rico 

Sales: Attraction distribution
Festival distribution: Kaboom distribution service

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