More thoughts on astheics

I downloaded the demo of American McGee’s Alice last night and had a play. After I stopped playing I had a look at what I had a look at what could have influenced the style of this game.

I had a look on the internet to see what images I would find. I found these Images that looked like the games style.

Book illustration for Alice in Wonderland

I found out that this illustration drawn John Tenniel.

now if we compare this illustration by John Tenniel

John Tenniel's Cheshire Cat

American Mcgee's Cheshire Cat

As we can see there are we can see that John Tenniel influenced American Mcgee look especially around the face.

American McGee's Mad Hatter

In this picture the style is clearly influenced by steampunk horror.

So what the developers have done is taken a existing interpretation of Alice in Wonderland and reworked that style in to something different.