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Chris “Topher” Maraffi Bio Starting in Fall 2022 I will be teaching as a tenure-track Art+Design faculty at North Carolina […]
NCSU-MADTech faculty in Hyper-Reality, Mocap, XR and Game Design
Chris “Topher” Maraffi Bio Starting in Fall 2022 I will be teaching as a tenure-track Art+Design faculty at North Carolina […]
New Publication: Stage Magic as a Performative Design Principle for VR Storytelling (Summer 2021) Peer-reviewed journal article for a special […]
2021 FAU Courses in Game Design and XR Spring 2021 Students presented a formal analysis of video games as research […]
Spring 2024: Student Metahuman Monologues I began teaching NCSU MADTech students the Metahuman Animator pipeline in my Special Topics: Motion […]
Macbeth Metahuman: Revisiting Craig’s Future Theatre in Hyper-Reality Extended Abstract by Topher Maraffi (2023): Edward Gordon Craig’s (1872-1966) futuristic vision […]
Selection of Youtube tutorials starting in 2020 at FAU. Topics include concept art, character animation, game design, and XR applications. […]
We are developing an extended reality (XR) tour experience of Reconstruction-era narratives (broad NHP timeline from 1861-1900) for Historic Mitchelville […]
AI Generated Concept Art for Games I have started exploring AI tools that use interactive evolutionary or “breeding” algorithms and […]
Media, Technology, and Entertainment MFA (MTEn-MFA) Lab Courses & XR Research Projects at Florida Atlantic University Multimedia courses I teach […]