Mad Hatter OR White Rabbit?

Costume Werewolf

Based on the lecture i was thinking to myself that iconic and arbitrary are important things. and is there  right to answer to certain things being more iconic to each other, it was mentioned that Laura Croft has become more iconic as pixels have improved this made me think into the field of costume ...because pixels are becoming more iconic as they create movement and texture , does this mean they are more iconic than costumes and models as these create textures and well, for example would a animation of a werewolf be more iconic than a costume of a werewolf.

Animated Werewolf

This then brought me on to the thought of films that include costume and animation combined together and therefore which characters become more iconic to the audience. a good example of this is Tim Burtons version of "Alice Returns To Wonderland". I began to look into some of the characters and wanted to compare the white rabbit to the mad hatter....the reason why i wanted to compare these two was because the mad hatter is mainly costume and has a actor "Johnny Depp" playing the character ....whereas the white rabbit is animated.

Which one of these characters is more iconic ?? 

i personally believe the mad hatter is more iconic, the reason why i say this is because he may be sightly strange but you can relate to him, even if he is strange. his costume is well constructed and puts the character in full swing he also has the makeup to help with the appearance, but when he starts to walk and talk you begin to get a complete aspect of what the character really represents.I find this very iconic, whereas the white rabbit is fully animated and when put next to the iconic character like the mad hatter you begin to notice the difference between animated and costume.

Mad Hatter 

White Rabbit 

 Although the animation itself is very good and does look very realistic, you still come to the conclusion that this character is created. Don't get me wrong i think the animation itself looks very iconic the way the rabbit moves and the texture but i believe part of it gets taken away when u put it next to a real object or person. this is just my opinion of course i bet there are people out there that believe animation is more iconic as you can create a character from scratch rather than someone playing a character.