About TooFar Media
DISCOVER IMMERSIVE STORYWORLDS
For over two decades, TooFar Media has been redefining the boundaries of narrative experience—crafting Immersive Storyworlds that fuse literature, original music, avant-garde art, cinematic animation, and transformative technologies. Our work doesn’t just tell stories—it transports audiences into unexplored realms of imagination.
Founded by visionary creator Rich Shapero, whose work as a novelist, musician, lyricist, and producer continues to break new ground in experiential storytelling, TooFar Media has assembled a global collective of extraordinary collaborators. Our partners include Grammy Award–winning musicians and producers, boundary-pushing visual artists, world-class animators, and AI engineers pioneering new creative tools—all united by a shared mission to push the frontiers of storytelling, art, and technology.
As an award-winning multimedia studio, we don’t just tell stories—we architect complete sensory worlds that redefine how narratives can be experienced in the digital age. Each TooFar Media creation is a pioneering venture into uncharted creative territory, inviting audiences to experience storytelling in ways that are immersive, imaginative, and deeply original.
 Our recent Immersive Storyworlds embody this ethos—each merging human artistry, which forms the foundation of every project, with transformative technology. Through a proprietary fusion of Generative AI, custom diffusion models, 4K cinematic animation in Blender, real-time rendering through PlayCanvas, and Dolby Atmos spatial audio, we extend each artist’s work where it enhances the creative vision—amplifying, not replacing, the human touch. The result is a deliberate blend of the tangible and the digital, creating experiences that are symbolic, emotional, and deeply immersive.
TooFar Media’s Immersive Storyworlds have been showcased at leading cultural festivals around the world, including SXSW Austin, SXSW Sydney, SXSW London, Raindance Film Festival, the LA Times Festival of Books, Hay Festival, Edinburgh Fringe Book Festival, Printer’s Row Lit Fest, Miami Book Fair and many more—continuing to demonstrate what’s possible when art and technology merge with purpose.
At our core lies a restless curiosity—to keep experimenting, take bold creative risks, and stretch the very definition of what immersive media can be.
RICH SHAPERO
Author. Musician. Composer.
Rich Shapero’s Immersive Storyworlds dare readers with giant metaphors, magnificent obsessions and potent ideas. His casts of idealistic lovers, laboring miners, and rebellious artists all rate ideas as paramount, more important than life itself. They traverse wild landscapes and visionary realms, imagining gods who in turn imagine them. Like the seekers themselves, readers grapple with revealing truths about human potential. Xiphactinus and his previous titles—The Hornet’s Spell, Hibiscus Mask, Beneath Caaqi’s Wings, Dreams of Delphine, The Slide That Buried Rightful, Dissolve, Island Fruit Remedy, Balcony of Fog, Rin, Tongue and Dorner, Arms from the Sea, The Hope We Seek, Too Far, and Wild Animus—are available in hardcover and as ebooks. They also combine music, visual art, animation and video in the TooFar Media app. Shapero spins provocative stories for the eyes, ears, and imagination.
