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Featured Participant: Escape the Room

01/09/2016 by

escape the roomOne of the featured participants at this year’s Cyprus Comic Con is Escape the Room!

There will be a special mini escape room at CCC for you to try out.

What exactly is ‘Escape the Room’?

The concept of escaping from a locked room originated from a number of video games in the late 1990’s. The player would find himself locked in a given room and by finding clues, solving puzzles and by using different objects along the way he would eventually make his way out to freedom. This idea has since evolved and over the past few years has turned these video games into a real-life concept. Escape the Room currently offers three uniquely themed rooms for you and your friends to experience and test your reasoning and logic.

Check out their YouTube channel for more videos!

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!

 

Artist Profile: Chrysso Vassiliou

01/09/2016 by

Chrysso Vassiliou is returning to Cyprus Comic Con as one of our Featured Artists!

Chrysso Vassiliou, (also known as “Chryssv”) is a young self taught freelance artist. She had always loved art but her true passioned awakened about 2-3 years ago, when she started learning digital painting. She loves video games, movies and comics. She is inspired by both eastern(anime/manga) and western cartoons, both 2d and 3d. She has been accepting freelance commissions for the past 2 years, and has been selling her artwork online and showcased her work at several events, including Cyprus Comic Con, Malta Comic Con and Japan Expo!

Stay up to date with Chrysso’s work through her Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and DeviantArt profiles! You can also watch her drawing videos on Youtube and visit her online store!

Currently Chrysso is working on becoming a better artist and improving her skills and aspires to work as a professional illustrator and concept artist in the future, for video games, cartoons and movies. Furthermore, she also hopes to expand my skills and knowledge of 3d-art and modeling.

Featured Sponsor: Sony PlayStation Cyprus

31/08/2016 by

We are happy to inform you that Sony PlayStation Cyprus supports for a third consecutive year Cyprus Comic Con!

SonyPlaystationCyprusFor the last 20 years Sony PlayStation Cyprus have been there, with their European colleagues, at the launch of every console and great game from PlayStation 1 to PS4; from PSP to PS Vita and in last year, the opening of Cyprus PlayStation Store (PSN Store).

As the official distributor in Cyprus for Sony Computer Entertainment Europe, they kept Cyprus at the forefront with PlayStation;  supplying the market with the latest consoles, peripherals and games; providing dedicated customer service and support through our service centre, website and helpline; and promoting the latest international PlayStation news as well as local community events through Facebook and their website.

vrExperience PlayStation VR!
Sony PlayStation Cyprus will be demoing the very anticipated PlayStation VR at this year’s Comic Con, from the moment you slip on PlayStation VR, the new Virtual Reality system for PlayStation 4, you’ll experience games in an entirely new way. You’ll be at the centre of the action, living every detail of extraordinary new worlds – and you’ll feel like you’re actually inside the game.

Book your experience by visiting the PlayStation booth!
PlayStation Cyprus are also sponsoring the Cosplay competition again and have also prepared some really amazing surprises for you to experience!

Artist Profile: Andrea Pavlou

31/08/2016 by

Meet our next Featured Artist for CCC16, talented illustrator Andrea Pavlou!

Andrea Pavlou (aka Akina) is a young artist from Cyprus, who throughout her life has been experimenting with different types of art such as fine art, photography, digital film, concept art and illustration. Art has always been a creative outburst, in which she could expand and broaden her artistic side and abilities. Lately, she has been focusing on character and environment design and development, sculpting and concept art, with the help of Digireal Studios. She has just finished school and will go on to study 3D Animation & Computer modelling at the University of Hertfordshire in the UK.

To see more of Andrea’s work, visit her page on Facebook.

For her illustrations she mainly enjoys working with inks and fine liners, to create delicate black and white pieces, with a hint of mystery, focusing on dot work, line work and inking. Andrea’s inspirations mainly come from the Japanese culture, nature, as well as traditional tattoo works. Her photography has been featured in annual calendars and has also worked as freelancer, creating illustrations and designs for tattoos. Her hobbies include crafting inspired from video games and movies, as well as the art of cosplay and cosplay photography.

As an aspiring animator, she is looking forward to exploring different areas of Animation, including 2D, 3D & stop motion animation, visual effects, as well as game design and development. She hopes to travel the world and work in major movie features, as well as become a part-time tattoo artist!