Überwachung Character Package

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1. Bea Lloret April 9th, 2026
2. OVERVIEW Überwachung, a mixed media animated film that centers on Major Edward Moore (or in German, Herr Mohr), a Special Operations Executives agent and is tasked to continue what a previous agent couldn’t. Retrieve the blueprints and plans for Hitler’s automated man, the R1. A walking robot that prowls Germany and occupied countries in search of resistance fighters, “aliens”, spies, and everything the Nazi’s hate. Edward’s main mission is to retrieve these plans and blueprints to bring back home to Britain to train future soldiers and operatives on how to dismantle these bots, and to make their own. Upon his arrival undercover as Herr Mohr, he meets his correspondent, Captain Felix Wagner. A German officer from the Geheime Feldpolizei (Secret Field Police) who assisted the agent prior to Edward, and the R1. With great reluctance, Moore accepts Felix’s help in fleeing Berlin while avoiding strategic bombings and the threat of getting caught by the R1. Tldr: What if the Gestapo were robots.
4. Visual Research - Edward Moore While deciding how to draw Edward, I accidentally drew Hugh Laurie and I couldn’t stop. I was also watching Blackadder at the time and his incredibly posh for no reason voice was perfect. I also took inspiration from Jeeves and Wooster! Despite these two shows taken place prior to WW2, I wanted to know what Hugh looked like in period clothing I also gave Moore some of Lieutenant George’s medals. While deciding the military branch Moore was affiliated with, I landed with the SOE, who specializes in sabotage and espionage alongside M15, and MI6
8. Visual Research - Felix Wagner Fun fact I have an reenactment character that I drew named Pvt. Wagner and I used to have a friend whose last name is Wagner and it just stuck with me. It was a struggle figuring out how to draw Felix to the point where I had to paint him like a real person to get at least a semblance of something I liked. I searched up war scars as well to have him at least be distinguishable in black and white. I’ve also used references of Leyendecker to actually help me how to make him real, and rewatching Jojo Rabbit.
12. Visual Research - “R1” Rollei I was struggling to figure out what to make for a non-humanoid character but I wanted to make a story on surveillance and I thought making a surveillance robot would be cool. During my last semester, I wrote an essay on Polish surveillance during the Post-War period and a Polish short animated film called Labyrinth has a character who is a surveillance bot that represented the communist Polish secret police. Because of this I went into a deep-dive on cameras as well and was looking for old German made cameras for R1 and for other cameras in different countries as in this universe after WW2, these robots were made in other countries. I visit St. Jacobs Market over the summer and I know of a vendor who sells antique cameras and I inquired about them for the sake of visual research. To give the film a sort of suspenseful horror aspect, I photobashed R1 to make him seem out of place, alien and freaky. I wanted to integrate stop-motion due to how the animation style of stop-motion can be altered to look janky and robotic. Why I photobashed R1 is to emulate a sense of freakiness to it when I don’t have a puppet available on hand.
16. Media Inspirations (Left to Right): -The Wolf Among Us -Ultrakill -Borderlands 2 -LA Noire -Ersatz -The Two Headed Spy - This War of Mine -Limbo -Operation Mince- meat - Labriynt -Valkyrie