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Cyprus Comic Con 2016 Film Festival Presentations

01/09/2016 by

1Other than the wonderful screenings featured at this year’s CCC Film Festival a series of presentations have been scheduled to initiate inspiration from our audience.

On Saturday 10:30am the cast and producers of ATAXIA an upcoming superhero web series will screen their pilot episode and discuss their future plans. Talented local actors and co-stars of the show, Andreas Phylactou and Christodoulos Martas will be present to answer any questions from the audience.

3Same day at 15:00 the GeekOtopos team will unveil to the CCC audience a secret project and introduce to the local geek community their vision of a collaborative work-space for creative professionals. This presentation is highly recommended for independent storytellers working in any visual medium.

 

4Sunday, the second day of the con starts with an introduction to special make up FX at 10:30am. Rakis Georgiou one of the most prolific Special FX Artists on the island will take you on a trip through the history of Practical FX and conclude with samples from his own work including tips and tricks. Cosplayers and filmmakers with an interest on the subject shouldn’t miss this presentation!

 

5Our presentations section will conclude for this year’s CCC Film Fest at 13:00 with a talk from Zedem Media, a leading local animation studio that produces works for the international market, from cartoon style animations for non-profits such as ‘TED’ and the ‘School of Life’, to character based commercials and motion graphics. In this presentation they will talk about what got them where they are today, showcase examples of their work and analyze their design approach.

Please take note that all presentations will be at the CCC Film Festival premises (Jean Monet Auditorium) and seating will be first come first served.

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MrWoodenSheep

01/09/2016 by

woodensheepGenna Khudilaynen runs a variety comedy gaming Youtube channel called MrWoodenSheep. On his channel, he covers a lot of old nostalgic games like Crash Bandicoot and Rayman, as well as more modern indie games such as Rocket League and Binding of Isaac, or triple A games like Payday and Portal!

Check out MrWoodenSheep’s channel on Youtube!

The type of videos Genna makes, range from slightly edited, casual Let’s Plays of all sorts of games, to well-prepared and researched videos where he showcases upcoming games, to heavily edited videos where he recreates every single sound effect of a game with his own mouth and syncs it to gameplay! The main goal of Genna’s videos is to make you laugh!

Genna will have his own booth at CCC’16 as MrWoodenSheep where he will be showcasing his videos and would like to invite everyone to stop by and meet him there! He works on his channel every single day (almost all day!) therefore when it comes to video editing software, Photoshop and the way Youtube works regarding things like research results, Genna is extremely well-informed and capable and would like to share that knowledge with everyone at the convention. So feel free to visit his booth, ask him questions or just to have a nice chat and laugh together!

Some examples of MrWoodenSheep’s videos:

What if I did the Sound Effects for The Binding of Isaac using my mouth?

Let’s Play Gang Beasts

Let’s Play Crash Bandicoot

A Sheepish look at Rise of Tomb Raider

Happy Horses

01/09/2016 by

logo2One of the stores that is participating at this year’s Cyprus Comic Con is Happy Horses!

Happy Horses are unique ride on toys for children. Ride on ponycycle and feel like on a real horse!

They love these funky toys! you can ride like a bike and feel like a horse! You can buy these adorable horses or rent them.

You can visit their website here or make sure you follow them on Facebook!

 

 

 

Kyprianos M. Demosthenous

01/09/2016 by

The next Featured Artist to showcase their talent at this year’s Comic Con is 3d artist Kyprianos M. Demosthenous.

Kyprianos Demosthenous is 20 years old and lives in Engomi, Nicosia. He graduated from Pascal English School two years ago, completed his National Service and this coming September he will begin studying Architecture at the University of the Creative Arts in England.

Design, modeling and 3D crafting have been his favourite hobbies since a very young age. He always enjoys practicing his creative hobbies and wishes to continue to do so for the rest of his life. For that reason, Kyprianos could never imagine himself to be studying or working on something other than these subjects, that will give him the opportunity to continue creating as a professional in the future.

To see more of Kyprianos’ creations, visit his page on Facebook.

Some of the projects he has created have been exhibited and can be found at Saatchi Gallery, in England. Furthermore, he has participated in the worldwide competition of F1 in Schools as the designer of a car applying the aerodynamic principles and designing his team logo. His team’s model won first place in Cyprus and travelled to Austin Texas were they competed with the rest of the first-place winning teams from other countries. Kyprianos’ team received 13th place out of 32 that took part in the competition.

Kyprianos won an International Award for obtaining Full Marks in Art “A” Level in 2014 and also achieved the Highest Mark in Art subject in his school as a senior student. Taking advantage of the passion he had for crafting, during his National Service in a competition organized by the Army of Cyprus and Holy Archbishopric of Cyprus with the topic of ‘fighting against drugs’, he won first prize for a craft he made amongst thousands of other projects.

Let’s talk about food!

01/09/2016 by

fringeThe team of Cyprus Comic Con has made sure to satisfy your appetite during the two days of the event! We have secured some great quality food vendors to sell delicious food and refreshing drinks in the outdoor Fringe Festival area, offering a variety of different foods, from pizza and traditional souvlaki and sandwiches to crepes and ice cream!

Please note however that food is prohibited inside the halls so make sure you enjoy your meals outside the premises!

Our Fringe Festival’s food vendors are:

  • Pizza Hut – will offer all pizza combinations from their menu, as well as their tasty goodies from Wing Street!
  • Serial Griller – will serve mostly grilled tastes such as burgers, hot dogs etc.
  • Sir Franjolaki – Sir Franjolaki will serve warm and cold sandwiches, souvlaki in pita etc.
  • Crepart – Will serve sweet and savory crepes
  • Coffeeshop – Will serve all kinds of coffee and savories such as cheese pies, spinach pies etc.
  • Παγωταρία – Will serve ice cream during the hottest time of day!