Question about The Order: 1886 art style

zombie420

I'm looking at some concept for The Order: 1886 and they're providing reference on some of their weapons at the bottom of this sheet. Besides the obvious "steampunk" art description, what do you call this art style? It looks like Tesla coils were an inspiration, but the rest of the machinery I don't know how to articulate.

Just trying to find more reference for this sort of machinery but typing in "steampunk" is giving me cliche results filled with nerf gun paintovers

gnoop

try  old electric rotors + brushes   or "early electric motor"  etc

zombie420

Lot of good resources here. Thanks for the help gnoop

o2car

What you are looking for is "Victorian era"

Zack Maxwell

o2car said:

What you are looking for is "Victorian era"

Steampunk is also Victorian Era, there's a massive amount of crossover when you search for that.

ZacD

The parts themselves don't look like they are strictly from one era or time period, but the materials obviously are more uniform and steam punk. Some of the parts look like they could be from machinery, early computers or space equipment, etc. 

gsokol

Within the context of the game, the weapons were designed and built by Nikola Tesla.  Take a look at a lot of his inventions, you can see the influence, beyond just the tesla coils.

I don't think you will find a specific term or phrase to give you the exact ref you want.  You will have to do some mashing, most likely.  The weapon designs are much more functional, and of course, don't use steam....so steampunk is pretty far off.  What you are looking for is some mix between Victorian/Civil War era weapons and Nikola's inventions.