Since people are talking about everything BUT fanart.. :)
Fanart varies a lot, a lot of people seem pretty comfortable posting what are basically straight traces/copies of photos or official art but you also have huge epic paintings done in a unique style, or OCs or stuff based on books etc. Plus fancomics *waves little fancomics flag*
I think the fact that most fanworks seem to be based on visual media makes it easier to create not very transformative fanart, I have for example been happy making fanart for shows I've never seen or read fic for etc based on reference images but wouldn't feel able to do that with fic or for book fandoms. But maybe I'm just biased by finding art easier!
And maybe I think manips and podfic aren't very transformative because I don't tend to like them and thus haven't encountered the full variety of their awesomeness :D
I think you can CREATE fanworks that are as transformative or not as you like (If drawing mustaches on magazines makes me happy it doesn't hurt anyone). Whether or not you should be able to publish them in any given public sphere is a different question, I say as I wait for the creator of a fancomic I made a fancomic for to get back to me about whether or not she's cool with me putting it online.
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Date: 2010-02-11 09:48 pm (UTC)Fanart varies a lot, a lot of people seem pretty comfortable posting what are basically straight traces/copies of photos or official art but you also have huge epic paintings done in a unique style, or OCs or stuff based on books etc. Plus fancomics *waves little fancomics flag*
I think the fact that most fanworks seem to be based on visual media makes it easier to create not very transformative fanart, I have for example been happy making fanart for shows I've never seen or read fic for etc based on reference images but wouldn't feel able to do that with fic or for book fandoms. But maybe I'm just biased by finding art easier!
And maybe I think manips and podfic aren't very transformative because I don't tend to like them and thus haven't encountered the full variety of their awesomeness :D
I think you can CREATE fanworks that are as transformative or not as you like (If drawing mustaches on magazines makes me happy it doesn't hurt anyone). Whether or not you should be able to publish them in any given public sphere is a different question, I say as I wait for the creator of a fancomic I made a fancomic for to get back to me about whether or not she's cool with me putting it online.