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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 at CCC’16!

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

Featured Participant: Mazlimaz

01/09/2016 by

mazlimazPopular YouTuber Marinos Stephanou (aka Mazlimaz) is one of this year’s Comic Con participants!

Marinos was born in London, UK on 2nd of November 1994. He came to Cyprus when he was 10 years old and therefore he’s fluent in both Greek and English. He has always been interested in acting, entertainment and gaming from a very young age. YouTube and Facebook have encouraged him to pursue  these interests. His most popular videos, with over 190 000 views have been his music/voice over parodies that can be found on his Facebook page. People mostly recognize him from his Facebook page, Mazlimaz (over 6,500 likes) and his YouTube channel (over 2,500 subs). He is currently working hard to promote both.

 

Featured Shop: 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!

 

 

 

Featured Shop: The Symbiote

01/09/2016 by

The Symbiote Flyer 2

At this year’s Comic Con you will be able to find among other shops The Symbiote – a shop which sells Marvel Products such as keyrings, wallets, bracelets, pillows, mice, mouse pads etc.

Check out their Facebook page!

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