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Artist Profile: Savvas Papadopoulos

19/08/2016 by

CCC16 will host multi-talented illustrator Savvas Papadopoulos as one of its Featured Artists!

Savvas developed a love for drawing from a very young age. When he was just 15 years old, he had the opportunity to approach Byzantine iconography lessons for one year. Byzantine art greatly defined and shaped Savvas’ artistic style later on.

To see more of Savvas illustrations, visit his profile on Behance!

After graduating from school and finishing his military service, he completed a yearly foundation course in art studio laboratories, where he had to decide which art field he wanted to continue studying in as a university student. Among his choices were Fine Art and Photography. He eventually chose to study illustration and in 2011 he enrolled in Birmingham City University. He completed his three years of studies where he was able to experiment in various creative fields such as printmaking, digital art, photography and others.

Upon finishing his studies with a Visual Communication – Illustration diploma, he started working as a freelance illustrator. He has since worked on various projects, such as book covers, creating artwork for coffee shops, logos, board games design and creating digital paintings. His style is still evidently influence by byzantine iconography, ancient Greek pottery design, as well as modern illustration trends. He enjoys working digitally just as much as drawing traditionally by hand and is always looking for creative ways to combine the two. Savvas is always looking forward to respond to new challenges and gain new experiences!

Gioco Libero – Cyprus Throwdown Tournament Series

19/08/2016 by

Three of the gaming tournaments to participate in at this year’s Comic Con are Tekken Tag Tournament 2, Street Fighter V and Mortal Kombat XL.

The tournaments are organised by Gioco Libero and Cyprus Throwdown Tournament Series. 

This year both the gaming tournaments and their prizes will be bigger and better!

Aside from the prizes that have already been announced, there will likely be prizes for the 4th and 5th place in the tournaments and even small prizes for lucky spectators!

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Saturday 14:00 – 16:00: Tekken Tag Tournament 2

Sunday 10:00 – 13:00: Street Fighter V
Sunday 13:00 – 15:00: Mortal Kombat XL

The tournament will have the form of Elimination, Best of Three Rounds. The player that wins two matches proceeds and the loser is eliminated.

 

Participating fee:
  • 10 euros per tournament
  • 15 euros for two tournaments

 

 

Regulations:

1.All games will be played on the default settings, unless otherwise specified, below.

2. Players must provide their own controller for games played on all systems. In case a player does  not bring their own controller, default controllers will be provided that may not fulfill the player’s requirements.

3. Players that arrive late to the tournament or don’t appear in time for their match will be eliminated.

The tournaments will be livestreamed through YouTube, Twitch και Facebook!

Gioco Libero is the home of Cyprus Throwdown Tournament

Gioco Libero is from now on the home of Cyprus Throwdown Tournament. The internet café is located in Limassol and has state of the art stations for PC and console gaming!

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Artist Profile: Stephanie Nicolaou

19/08/2016 by

Meet the next Featured Artist to showcase their work at CCC16, illustrator and painter Stephanie Nicolaou!

Stephanie was born in Limassol in 1991. Ever since she a young age, she had a passion with visual arts, so after her final year at S.Antonis High School, she followed her dream to study Fine Arts in Florence, Italy. It was an amazing 3 years of experience, where she was exposed to new things, people and places through her studies and travels all around Europe. In September 2012 she submitted her final project for my Diploma, titled “The psychology of the non-verbal communication: The expression of felicity”, and was passed with flying colors.

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

After Italy, she returned to Cyprus and started working at Zorpas bakery as a sales person, which was not really what she had wanted for herself. After two and a half years she quit that job and started working as a waitress, then as kitchen assistant and bartender at a coffeeshop. Life wasn not easy for Stephanie after graduating, but she didn’t give up.

In 2014, she traveled to Slovakia for a Hitech Music Festival, where she saw for the first time how amazing UV glowing decoration was for a night party. This inspired her and she started creating cartoon paintings with UV colors that can glow under the blacklight. That was the beginning of her crazy crew that she named “Completely Fried Mind – KFM” which aims to create imagery of crazy and sometimes creepy cartoons!

Special Guest: George Georgiou

18/08/2016 by

Cyprus Comic Con is proud to announce brilliant actor George Georgiou as one of our esteemed Special Guests for CCC16!

Born in London of Greek-Cypriot parents, George received his actor’s training at the prestigious Drama Centre London alongside Tom Hardy and Michael Fassbender.

George has appeared in some of the best quality shows to grace our screens over the last few years, both in the UK and the US.  More specifically, he was recently seen on Season 6 of the massively popular TV series ‘Game of Thrones‘ (2011– ) – reprising his role of Razdal Mo Eraz from Season 3 (a high-born leader of the Yunki slave tribe). George has also been acting in the most current Season (5) of political thriller series ‘Homeland‘ (2011– ) where he plays the recurring character of Al Amin.

In 2015, he appeared in hit US TV shows ‘The Americans‘ and ‘Bones‘ for Fox as well as playing a lead in NBC’s ‘AD: The Bible Continues‘.

Make sure to visit George Georgiou’s official website for more information about his illustrious career in film and television.

Other worthy TV credits include a regular in the award winning ‘The Honourable Woman‘ opposite Maggie Gyllenhaal playing the Palastinian Ambassador.

George also played one of the lead characters in a TV pilot called ‘Bubbles‘ set amongst the Greek Cypriot community in London – also starring Marina Sertis (Star Trek) and Peter Polycarpou (Birds of a Feather).

On the big screen George has starred alongside Meryl Streep in ‘Mamma Mia!‘ (2008) playing Panos, her housekeeper and then went on to appear in action movies such as ‘300:Rise of an Empire‘ (2014) and ‘RED 2‘ (2013).

Most recently, George starred in the award-winning ‘Killing Jesus‘ (2015) for Scott Free Productions as well as ‘God the Father‘ (2014). He can also be seen in Fatih Akin’s latest film that premiered at Venice Film Festival (main category) in 2014, called ‘The Cut‘ (2014) that is set in pre-WW1 about the Armenian Genocide. George takes on the role of Vahan, an Armenian that gets taken to a concentration camp which he does not survive.

http://cypruscomiccon.org/special-guest-george-georgiou/

George recently played Greek Prime Minster Alexis Tsipras for a BBC Radio 4 play titled ‘A Greek Drama‘ (2015) about what went on behind the scenes in the lead up to Greece’s decision to stay in Europe. He also voiced a character in the highly acclaimed video game ‘Tom Clancy’s The Division‘ (2016).

George has worked on the stage both on and off West End since leaving Drama School.

Some stage productions he participated in include:

The Bacchae – The Royal National Theatre
Chicken – West End – Trafalgan Studio
Our Counties Good – West End – Theatre Royal Haymarket
The Battle of Green Lanes – Theatre Royal
and many others.

As well as acting,George set up the ArtHouse Crouch End Cinema – that won the Time Out Award for best cinema in London for the past 2 years running.

 

Featured Sponsor: Synergia Media

18/08/2016 by

Cyprus Comic Con is pleased to announce S. Synergia Media as one of our sponsor’s for this year’s event!

Company Profile

S. Synergia Media Ltd was created by the merging of two of the biggest companies in the area of professional sound, visual, professional lighting, conference and interpretation systems, organizing and producing conferences, congresses and events. The team of S. Synergia Media has been in the field of providing such services for more than 18 years.

S. Synergia Media Ltd is now a leading force among rental companies that deals with visual, professional sound, professional lighting, conference and interpretation systems in the Cyprus market. Each event, from the simplest to the most complicated one, is classified as important. Therefore, each customer’s need is carefully examined in detail and with the appropriate respect. The company’s main aim remains to present the most professional and productive result.

Vision
Their vision lies on the expansion of the company and the ongoing update of our services, by keeping up with any new technology in sound, vision and light equipment, conference & interpretation systems and design and construction tools. Furthermore, their high skilled personnel constantly attends seminars within or outside the company so as to be trained in new technologies, products and customer relations.

At the same time, S. Synergia Media Ltd continuously explores new ways of providing its services in the most efficient way, as well as new area fields so as to offer the most completed packages of services possible.

Mission
S. Synergia Media Ltd aims to offer a complete package of equipment and services to the customers, so as to help them in the most convenient and still professional way. They guide their customers all the way through, consulting them and helping them so as to achieve the most desired results.

Their services are provided by experienced and well trained personnel, using the newest and most advanced technology as well as the most reliable and compatible equipment. The company’s primary concern is the fulfilment of the customers’ needs, to keep all customers satisfied by providing our services in the best possible way with competitive prices.

Company Website
Synergia Media on Facebook


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