I'm in tech, and I spent the last 7 yrs building stuff in a regulated industry (finance) that was new to me. There is a real belief (esp with investors) that people who are too close to something come with knowledge/baggage that constrains their ability to innovate, since 'tried this before', so surpisingly you can get funded to 'disrupt' something you don't even fully understand.
I'm a big fan of the Zombie/Vampire genres not because I'm a fetishist, rather I am interested in how the creators of new material in these two tired genres can refresh by defying or ignoring the rubric, standard plot lines, powers/weaknesses. It's all about rule-sets and if you don't know or are bound by the rules, it may be possible to innovate.
So if someone is not familiar with the genre, doesn't read fanfic, isn't bound by convention it is possible to do something worthy.
I'm in tech, and I spent the last 7 yrs building stuff in a regulated industry (finance) that was new to me. There is a real belief (esp with investors) that people who are too close to something come with knowledge/baggage that constrains their ability to innovate, since 'tried this before', so surpisingly you can get funded to 'disrupt' something you don't even fully understand.
I'm a big fan of the Zombie/Vampire genres not because I'm a fetishist, rather I am interested in how the creators of new material in these two tired genres can refresh by defying or ignoring the rubric, standard plot lines, powers/weaknesses. It's all about rule-sets and if you don't know or are bound by the rules, it may be possible to innovate.
So if someone is not familiar with the genre, doesn't read fanfic, isn't bound by convention it is possible to do something worthy.
https://mickeyblog.com/2021/05/13/marvel-feared-thor-would-look-too-much-like-fabio/
And since they are not fans, and they need to pay the bills, it makes sense they would do it for money, rather than mission.
See you in Texas (definitely Austin, maybe Dallas or Houston too) in February.