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Featured Participant: Indie Studio Evistoria Games

18/08/2017 by

Newly formed local indie game studio Evistoria Games will attend this year’s Cyprus Comic Con!

The developers will reveal to us the fictional world of “Yenefan” – an unusual place, where four individuals with unique abilities are forced to form an unlikely alliance in order to save the world from an ancient prophecy – or else they will forever rot in the King’s dungeons!

The game, which is an action/adventure with RPG elements, is still on its early stages of development and the team behind it is thrilled to showcase the first samples of their work. Their initial goal is for the game to be released in 2020 on PC, Xbox One and PlayStation 4.

Evistoria Games was formed in 2017, while the core team has been working on Yenefan, their first game, since 2016. Their love for story-driven games has led them to grow and form their own kinds of alliances with other talented artists and programmers. The founders decided to form the studio after noticing the big variety of talented artists on previous Comic Cons and the need for a local project, so they would be able to promote their work, helping them follow their dream career at video game studios.

You can follow Evistoria Games through their official website (www.evistoriagames.com) or through their pages on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram!

Artist Profile: Savvas Papadopoulos

17/08/2017 by

Cyprus Comic Con welcomes talented illustrator Savvas Papadopoulos once again to its Artists’ Alley!

Savvas developed a love for drawing from a very young age. When he was just 15 years old, he had the opportunity to approach Byzantine iconography lessons for one year. Byzantine art greatly defined and shaped Savvas’ artistic style later on.

After graduating from school and finishing his military service, he completed a yearly foundation course in art studio laboratories, where he had to decide which art field he wanted to continue studying in as a university student. Among his choices were Fine Art and Photography. He eventually chose to study illustration and in 2011 he enrolled in Birmingham City University. He completed his three years of studies where he was able to experiment in various creative fields such as printmaking, digital art, photography and others.

Upon finishing his studies with a Visual Communication – Illustration diploma, he started working as a freelance illustrator. He has since worked on various projects, such as book covers, creating artwork for coffee shops, logos, board game designs and creating digital paintings. His style is still evidently influence by byzantine iconography, ancient Greek pottery design, as well as modern illustration trends. He enjoys working digitally just as much as drawing traditionally by hand and is always looking for creative ways to combine the two. Savvas is always looking forward to respond to new challenges and gain new experiences!

Visit Savvas’ page on Behance for more samples of his work!

Artist Profile: Eleanna Mavrofrydi

16/08/2017 by

Comic book artist and illustrator Eleanna Mavrofrydi is our newest addition to CCC17’s Artists Alley!

Eleanna was born on 16th of December 1991 in Athens, Greece. Having an appeal to painting from her early years, she attended art classes during her adolescence and in 2014 she graduated from AKTO college with a Bachelor in sketching, comics and cartoons while attending the one-year workshop of Nikos Koutsis for designing and creating comics in Vakalo college. In 2012 she participated in a group fanzine called “Caffeination” and the comic anthology of IDW Publishing, “Womanthology Heroic: Greek Division“. She continued to involve in other forms of artistic work as a stylist & art director of photography, in collaboration with independent Greek clothing brands.

In 2013 she collaborated with the Greek clothing brand, Black n ‘Rose, creating designs for T-shirts, the brand Clic Jewels to create fabrics for their bag collection for Spring/Summer 2015, and the brand “Vatomouro” for which she created handmade notebooks. Finally she has participated in group comics and illustration exhibitions and her last personal work is called “A Motivational Guide to Capitalist Ideology” and the comic book “Omega” where she illustrated a script from the comic book artist Kostas Pantoulas.

To see more of Eleanna’s work, visit her artist blog and profile on Instagram.

 

Special Guest: Calypsen Cosplay

16/08/2017 by

Photography: Studio Zahora

Cyprus Comic Con is proud to announce Calypsen Cosplay as our first Cosplay Special Guest for CCC17!

Marta Nowak is a young cosplayer based in Poznan, Poland, where she is currently studying graphic design and animation. She has only been making costumes for the last three years and in such short time, has gathered over 60k followers on Facebook and collaborated with game companies like CENEGA, for which she also created costumes. She also attended the Overwatch All Stars event in Warsaw, Poland as D.Va!

She loves creating fantasy and sci-fi armours and has made costumes such as Nova from StarCraft, Diana from League of Legends and Mercy from Overwatch. Her main goal is to spread the craft of creating handmade costumes to the world, encourage people to respect each other’s work and have fun with cosplay! As a Special Guest at conventions all around the world, Marta always tries to help new cosplayers with how to go about creating their own costumes and loves to offer her advice. She is not afraid of the heat gun or the hard, long hours of work that come with the art of cosplay! Her favorite part of a convention is being a judge for the cosplay contest, where she also gets to meet many talented people!

She has received several awards for her cosplay, including 1st place prize at Hall of Games 2014 and 1st place for Best Costume during Animatsuri 2015 in Poland.

You can follow Calypsen on Instagram, Facebook and Twitter!

Photography: Dobrochna
Photography: Dobrochna
Photography: Makks Tobi

Calypsen as a judge at CCC17’s EuroCosplay Qualifier

Photography: Foto Czarny

 

Marta will be one of our Special Guest judges for the EuroCosplay Qualifier on Saturday and will also be sharing her expertise with us at the following lectures:

 

Lectures

 

Saturday:

Topic: Crafting Armour with EVA Foam & Thermoplastics (joint lecture with another Cosplay guest)
Duration: 1h30m

 

Sunday

Topic: How to Start Creating a Cosplay Costume
Duration: 1h

 

 

Artist Profile: Demetris Panayides & Marios Yiangou

16/08/2017 by

Cyprus Comic Con’s Artists Alley welcomes back illustrator Demetres Panayides and writer Marios Yiangou, co-creators of comic book DÆMONIUM!

 

The Artist

Demetres Panayides is a young comic book illustrator from Nicosia and his work has been published both in the US, as well as Cyprus. He describes himself as a “keen movie freak” with a special love towards horror, thriller and sci-fi movies. He is also a comic book geek and his favourite comic book titles are Spawn and Watchmen. Demetres loves dark and horror themes in art and he tries to incorporate those elements into his own personal art style. Some of his greatest influences are Alex Pardee, Ashley Wood, Todd McFarlane and Ben Templesmith.

Demetres notably designed the cover for local metal band Blynd’s first full-length album, titled ‘The Enemy’ and illustrated the mascot “Rusty Goblin” for the fantasy game workshop Isengard. In 2014, he was one of the ten runner-ups of a worldwide talent hunt held by American comics publisher Top Cow and his first comic, Artifacts: Lost Tales #1 was published through them. More recently, he illustrated a short story for local band Winter’s Verge, titled “The Tale of Adamar of Calthorn”.

He is currently working on a new collaborative comic book project called DÆMONIUM together with writer and illustrator Marios Yiangou. The story of DÆMONIUM is based in Cyprus and the comic will be completed just in time for CCC’17!

Make sure to follow DÆMONIUM on Facebook!

The Writer

Marios Yiangou works as a graphic designer for an offshore company in Cyprus. What he loves more than writing is talking about himself in the third person. Marios has been writing for more than 15 years, from poetry to prose to comic book scripts, although never professionally. An avid reader of history and mythology, he tries to incorporate elements of both in all of his writing, along with noir, fantasy and horror themes. And ranting – he loves to rant! He fancies himself a cinephile and a huge comic book geek.

His major non-comic book literary influences are Hunter S. Thompson, Charles Bukowski, Tom Wolfe, Jack Kerouac and Nick Cave. As for comic book creators – not that there’s any difference – Alan Moore, Neil Gaiman, Garth Ennis, Warren Ellis and Michael Carey.  DÆMONIUM is his first attempt at collaborating with another artist and presenting his work to the public. So, you know, be gentle…