Hooba
In the year 3000 BCE, a small group of inhabitants of the “Low Countries” are fighting hunger and the elements. Their endless inability to organize themselves, combined with their impulsiveness, leads to the construction of the Netherlands’ mysterious standing stones – and to the invention of “Hooba.”
- Netherlands
- 2022, 2 min
- Director: Sem Assink
- Screenplay: Sem Assink
- Cast: Lennart Kleinen, Alan van Ramshorst, Kirill den Outer
- Producer: Michiel Snijders, Arnoud Rijken
- Production: il Luster Films
Sem Assink
Sem Assink graduated from the Netherlands Film Academy in 2005, where he currently teaches animation. After graduation, he worked at Guerilla Games, and his subsequent career as a freelance character animator brought him to the top of the 3D CGI community in the Netherlands, where he was one of the most sought-after talents in the field. He was lead animator for Ainbo (2020, dir. Richard Claus and Jose Zelada) and the animated series Kop Op (2017, dir. Marieke Blaauw, Joris Oprins, and Job Roggeveen), lead animator and main pre-production “tech” for the feature film Benjamin Bat (2024, dir. Patrick Raats and Sarah Sutter), and will be animation co-director for the upcoming animated feature Miss Moxy.