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Ilektra Chrysanthou

27/06/2016 by

Today’s Featured Artist for Cyprus Comic Con 2016 is Ilektra Chrysanthou!

Ilektra is a 3D artist and animator with a special love for digital painting, who also frequently returns to smearing paint on canvas. While growing up, she would often immerse herself in books, galloping alongside the wizards and dragons of her childhood imagination. It was that love for storytelling and drawing which drove her to study Digital Film & Screen Arts (2010-2013) at the University for the Creative Arts (U.K.).

To see more of Ilektra’s work, visit her website.

Since then, she has taken an active part in festivals such as Animafest Cyprus and Baltijos Banga in Lithunania to spread her joy for animation. Born into the digital age, she continues to develop as a digital artist through self-teaching, working in multidisciplinary projects.

Her work includes motion graphics for the documentary film The Great Goddess of Cyprus, 3d printed facial expressions for the stop-motion animation Fishwitch, facial animation for the VR video-game Pixel Ripped, TV spots as part of the fire prevention campaign for P.I.O., as well as a promotional video for the urban festival Imagine the Roads.

Ilektra is incredibly talented and we cannot wait to see what she is going to showcase at the upcoming convention!

Demetres Panayides

17/06/2016 by

Demetres Panayides is another returning artist whose work will be featured at CCC’16! Demetres is a young comic book illustrator from Nicosia and his work has been published both in the US, as well as Cyprus.

To see more of Demetres’ work, visit his portfolio page.

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 “Daemonium” together with talented writer and illustrator Marios Yiangou. The story of “Daemoniom” is based in Cyprus and the comic will hopefully be completed just in time for CCC’16!

Applications Deadline Announcement

10/06/2016 by

The deadline for submitting applications (excluding the Film Festival submissions and the Cosplay Competition) is Sunday, 31st of July.

Applications will close after the deadline, which leaves you with just less than two months to finalise your application and secure your place at this year’s event!

Have you submitted your CCC’16 application yet? Follow the instructions in this form and wait for our team to reach out to you with your results!

To those of you that have already submitted an application, don’t worry if you haven’t heard from us yet, we are currently in the process of reviewing applications and you will be hearing from us soon.

Lastly, we would like to extend a sincere thank you to all our exhibitors and participants for their invaluable contribution to Cyprus Comic Con over the last couple of years! Our participants’ support and dedication are the heart and soul of the convention; we truly couldn’t have done it without each and every one of you!

 

 

Cosplay Makeup Workshop 2016

02/06/2016 by

Last Saturday 28 May, the third cosplay workshop took place at The Beauty Parlour makeup studio in Strovolos, Nicosia. Our aspiring cosplayers attended a bespoke, full-day makeup masterclass by local professional makeup artist, Crystal Michael.

Crystal creating a character eye makeup look on Natalie, after concealing the eyebrows.

The workshop started off with some useful cosplay makeup tips as well as an introduction to various tools and products, which was then followed by the makeup demonstrations. Crystal showed how to conceal eyebrows with spirit gum and redraw them again in a different shape, as well as how to make the eyes appear bigger using makeup – ideal for those wanting to cosplay as anime or manga characters!

Lastly, the final demonstration included creating scars for cosplaying the character of Geralt of Rivia (from the popular action RPG The Witcher!) using basic special effects and detailed face painting, to transform the face and make it look like the fictional character’s.

A big thank you to Natalie and Nicholas for agreeing to be our models for the day!

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Cosplay Workshops 2016 have began!

24/05/2016 by

Only around 100 days left until the third installment of Cyprus Comic Con and the planning procedures for the upcoming event are currently under way with top speed!

Last Saturday (21/05), on the premises of Gamers’ Boulevard in Digenis Akritas Avenue in Nicosia, the second cosplay workshop was held with over 20 aspiring cosplayers participating, while the first introductory workshop a week before, was open for all cosplay enthusiasts and more than 40 people attended! The second workshop was more focused on materials and pattern-making and the participants got to interact with and customise different types of block foam, polystyrene and thermoplastic.

The purpose of these meetings is to aid those interested in participating in this year’s cosplay contest with a fully handmade costume. During the seminar workshops, the participants receive personalised advice and feedback to help them perfect their cosplay costume to the best quality possible. Furthermore, they get to do it in a friendly environment with other fellow cosplay enthusiasts!

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