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Special Guest: NightCold Créations

22/08/2017 by

Photography: Tai G Pictures

Cyprus Comic Con is pleased to announce NightCold Créations as our second Cosplay Special Guest for CCC17!

Loic Lecoustre is a cosplayer from northern France. He has been making costumes for an impressive 10 years and specialises in futuristic, comic and original design armour (such as Batman Beyond and Green Arrow) as well as armour from video games like Monster Hunter – his favourite game!

He is an awarded cosplayer, having received 1st place at Made in Asia 2013 and 1st place at the Virtual Calais Cosplay Contest 2016. NightCold enjoys being able to share his creations with the rest of the world and also helping other cosplayers achieve their goals. He believes that cosplay is a hobby highly related with a big community and the most important is having fun together!

Loic received a lot of praise from online media and cosplay blogs for his fully-handmade and exceptionally detailed Batman Beyond costume (see picture below), an original design that took him a year and a half of work to complete.

To see more of NightCold’s epic creations, visit his Facebook page and follow him on Instagram!

NightCold Créations as a judge at CCC17’s EuroCosplay Qualifier

Taken by Aleke Photography

 

Loic will be joining Calypsen as one of our Special Guest judges for the EuroCosplay Qualifier on Saturday and will be giving the following lectures:

 

Lectures

 

Saturday:

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

 

Sunday:

Topic: EVA Foam Priming and Painting
Duration: 1h

 

Philip Krentos

22/08/2017 by

Cyprus Comic Con welcomes back illustrator Philip Krentos!

Philip was born and raised in Cyprus. He is mostly self taught, but has had some great art teachers who pushed him to get the most out of his art. He is primarily inspired by manga and comic book art, but also takes a lot of his inspiration from video games. He has an architectural background, but quickly realised that game development was his true calling and will be starting his Master’s in Game Development this coming September. Currently, he works part-time as a storyboarder, as well as a commission artist.

Make sure to visit Philip’s page on Facebook to see more of his work!

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!

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!

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

 

 

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…