SKC

SKC (Strategisch Kenniscentrum Ondermijnende Criminaliteit), part of the Dutch Ministry of Justice, needed two deliverables from Enversed Studios. First, a set of animated video clips for their internal PowerPoint briefing: clicking through the slides triggers animations that visualise global drug flows, cocaine production figures, and criminal organisations, making the presentation feel live rather than static. Second, a separate interactive web app called the Beeldtafel, where analysts and stakeholders can explore the same intelligence by drilling into a map themselves.

For the briefing videos I designed all the cartographic graphics in Illustrator: a world map base layer, continental and regional views, a Netherlands close-up, and thematic overlays for money laundering and trafficking routes. I then animated them in After Effects across eighteen clips covering five topic groups (global drug flows, criminal organisations, cocaine production, broader criminal trends, and global drug developments). Each clip plays out as a timed infographic animation tied to a specific slide.

For the Beeldtafel I built the full app in PlayCanvas. The interface has four levels: users pick a corridor (cocaine trafficking or counterfeit tobacco smuggling), then navigate from world view to continent to country, toggling data layers at each step. A few things I built that are not obvious on the surface:

• Overlay images load on demand and unload when dismissed. The full dataset is dozens of map images; loading everything upfront would be wasteful, so memory stays proportional to what is actually visible.
• Each image's canvas position is encoded in its filename as x/y coordinates. Parsing the filename gives the placement offset directly, with no separate layout config needed.
• A JSON config object controls which data layers exist per region. Toggles for unavailable combinations grey out automatically without any code changes, so content editors can add or remove a data layer just by adding or removing an asset.
• The camera zooms dynamically based on the selected region's bounding box, so zoom constraints scale correctly whether you are looking at all of South America or a single country.

Eighteen animated video clips integrated into SKC's internal PowerPoint presentation, covering five intelligence topics across the cocaine and counterfeit goods corridors. Plus a PlayCanvas web app with a full drill-down map, two active corridors, and toggleable data layers down to country level.

Both deliverables are in active internal use at SKC. The Beeldtafel is also shown to external stakeholders, including law enforcement partners and government parties, as an interactive showcase of their intelligence capabilities. Neither is publicly accessible.