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Should My Story be a Game, Film, TV Show, or Book?

Description

Learn the basics of determining which mediums are best suited for your story or characters from industry veterans Maureen Fan and Jane Wu. Maureen is Co-Founder and CEO of Baobab Studios - a 10x Emmy winning animation studio whose IP is currently being adapted into books, films, original series, and games. Their upcoming Disney+ series include: “The Witchverse”, an epic fantasy action-adventure animated event series, based on “Baba Yaga”, Baobab’s three-time Emmy®-winning short film and VR experience and “Intercats”, an animated cat workplace comedy based on the fast-tracked Baobab graphic novel by the same name Macmillan. Their Momoguro multiplatform franchise, includes a line of hit Roblox games and a TV series in development. Jane Wu is Supervising Director and Producer behind Annie Award-winning Netflix series, Blue Eye Samurai. Along with Directing, Jane has channeled her martial arts background and live-action sensibility into such features as a storyboard artist for Mulan, Spider-Man: Into the Spiderverse, The Avengers and Shang-Chi as well as TV series Game of Thrones, House of the Dragon and Interview With the Vampire.