About
Chris “Topher” Maraffi Bio Starting in Fall 2022 I will be teaching as a tenure-track Art+Design faculty at North Carolina […]
Research
Macbeth Metahuman: Performing Craig’s Über-Marionette in Hyper-Reality (Summer 2025) Conference proceedings paper from Journées d’Informatique Théâtrale (JIT 2024) published in […]
Teaching
2021 FAU Courses in Game Design and XR Spring 2021 Students presented a formal analysis of video games as research […]
Latest News
Fall 2025: Historical Fiction Project Pre-Production I am developing a historical fiction film project starring Samuel Clemens, Frederick Douglass, Charles […]
Macbeth Metahuman
An exciting application for virtual production is where actors appear to perform with life-sized Metahumans in a large LED wall […]
Tutorials
Selection of Youtube tutorials starting in 2020 at FAU. Topics include concept art, character animation, game design, and XR applications. […]
A MAGIC Tour of Mitchelville
NCSU College of Design faculty in Media Arts, Design and Technology (MADTech) are collaborating with Historic Mitchelville Freedom Park (HMFP) […]
Artwork
AI Generated Concept Art for Games I have started exploring AI tools that use interactive evolutionary or “breeding” algorithms and […]
MFA Extended Reality Projects
Spring 2025: MADTech Graduate Thesis Defense Projects Featuring Metahumans Here are excerpts from three NCSU MADTech graduate thesis projects that […]
Topher Maraffi 