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EuroCosplay Championships

19/07/2016 by

CCC-EUROCOSPLAYCyprus Comic Con’s Cosplay Competition is now a EuroCosplay Championship Qualifier!

 

What does this mean?

The EuroCosplay Championships are a series of cosplay competitions held in conventions and other similar partner events all over Europe. The winner of each competition receives the honour of representing their country in the EuroCosplay Final which is held annually at the MCM London Comic Con in October.

With Cyprus Comic Con now becoming one of its partner events, the CCC Cosplay Competition becomes a EuroCosplay Qualifier, meaning, the eligible winner of this September’s Cosplay Competition will get to represent Cyprus in London this coming October!

The eligible CCC Cosplay winner will not only be awarded with the usual grand prizes, but will also receive a return plane ticket to London, accommodation for 2 nights and a VIP weekend pass to the October 2016 MCM London Comic Con.

More about EuroCosplay

The EuroCosplay Final is one of the biggest international cosplay contests with over 30 countries participating. The judging panel of the London Final is always comprised of big names from the international cosplay scene flown in from America or Asia. The main focus of the judges is craftsmanship and all participating cosplayers are scored according to their accuracy 40%, costume construction 40% and performance 20%.

All participants are first inspected by the judges in a private session before the stage show, then they are given half a minute on stage to perform a quick skit which best shows off their costume such as a dance or performance (e.g. sword swinging and posing), a song or even a short theatrical performance.

Visit the EuroCosplay Facebook Page, Twitter or Website.

How do I qualify?

In order to be eligible for representing Cyprus in the EuroCosplay 2016 Final, you need to:

  • Be 18 years old and over by the date of the contest (28/10/2016)
  • Be of Cypriot nationality with relevant documents OR have lived in Cyprus for 3 years or more
  • Have a fully handmade costume which was made by yourself with minor help from others
  • Be available to travel to the UK from the 28th until the 30th of October 2016 with valid travel documents
  • Comply to all of the rules in the official EuroCosplay rulebook (linked below)

 

In the case that the the 1st place winner of the CCC Cosplay Competition is not eligible per the above rules, the next best eligible position holder will qualify. The Cyprus representative will be accompanied by CCC organisers during the event.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYCH9i5w_pg

Artist Profile: Philip Krentos

18/07/2016 by

Cyprus Comic Con 2016 is excited to welcome Philip Krentos as one of its Featured Artists!

Philip was was born in 1992 in Nicosia, of English and Cypriot parents. He’s been drawing ever since he could first pick up a pen, and has been a gamer for as long as he can remember! He studied Architecture for three years in Nottingham, which gave him a solid design base, and as a result, he learned a lot about the creative process that goes into designing and creating experiences.

To see more of Philip’s work, visit his page on Facebook.

The subject matter of Philip’s drawings are usually videogame related; characters, places, ideas, sometimes of his own creation, sometimes not. His aspiration has always been to become a game artist. He is currently in the process of creating a game, though it won’t be ready for while. Furthermore, Philip is also interested in animation, as well as comic books and manga, and has drawn a lot of inspiration from his favourite artists, which include Hirohiko Araki, Ashley Wood, Bryan Lee O’Malley, Kentaro Miura, as well as from his favourite animation studios, like Studio Ghibli, Trigger, Madhouse, and Gainax.

Philip claims he mainly has two drawing styles; a sketchy and dark style, and a more bright and humorous style, which sometimes he mixes together, but it depends on piece to piece, and usually the influences are fairly clear, or at least so he thinks!

Artist Profile: Heba Rena Yassin

16/07/2016 by

Meet our next Featured Artist, Heba Rena Yassin, a 23-year old illustrator from Sutton, Surrey, UK.

Heba was born on a cold winters day in Sutton, Surrey on the 2nd of December. She grew up in sunny Limassol, Cyprus. She was a very small baby, but her zeal for life was strong and little did she know that she would grow to be the artist that she is today!

To see more of Heba’s work, visit her page on Facebook, DeviantArt and her personal blog!

Heba had a passion for art, comics, books, anime and manga since she was very young. She graduated with First Class in BA Fine Art at the University of Hertfordshire, UK and also completed a Masters degree in Digital Art and Design at the University of Nicosia. Currently she is living in the UK and pursuing a freelance career and applying for a PhD.

She purchased her first graphics tablet when I was 14 and has been creating her own stories and illustrations ever since. The majority of her work now is digitally created, and she believes that her background in Fine Art enables her to apply different techniques to her digital work.

Heba strongly believes that you can do anything with hard work and determination. She says “all you need is love for what you do”. She created a life motto for herself made up of three ”P’s”: Practice, Persistence and Patience, to remind her to never give up and to always do her best!

Artist Profile: Charalambos Margaritis

13/07/2016 by

Today’s Featured Artist is talented Cypriot animator, painter and printmaker Charalambos Margaritis.

Charalambos graduated from the National Superior Fine Arts School of Paris (ENSBA) in 2012. His work is centered around printmaking, animated films, drawing and painting. In 2010 he studied the traditional icon painting techniques with the monk Paisios Agrapides in the Cell of Saint Archangels in Karyes of Mount Athos, where he resided for three months.

To see more of Charalambos’ work, visit his blog and his profile on Vimeo.

He taught drawing and animated film techniques to children from 8 to 15 years old on three occasions: firstly, during 2011 and 2012, as a part of the creative writing workshops of “La Cité des Mots”, organized by the writer Catherine Zoungrana in Paris. Then, on December 2013, in the Centre Pompidou, during the event “Stopmotion”. Finally, for the post-diploma program “AIMS” (Artiste Intervenant en Milieu Scolaire) of the Fine Arts Schools of Paris, that takes place in Saint Ouen (suburb of Paris). He also taught drawing in HEC (Haute Ecole de Commerce) for the year 2014 – 2015. In 2013 he worked as a member of the admissions jury for the entrance examinations of the Fine Arts School of Paris.

He participated in several exhibitions in France, as the event “Graver Maintenant” in Reuil Malmaison in 2009, the second edition of the International Drawing Fair (FID) in Paris in 2010, the exhibition “Nulla Dies Sine Linea” in the library of the École Normale Supérieure of Paris in 2011, the Salon of Poissy in Paris in 2013 and in all the Sarcelles’ Engraving Biennales since 2009. In Cyprus he participated, in December of 2013, in the exhibition “Othellos – Rebirth” that took place in the Othellos cinema theater, part of the European Capital of Culture of Paphos. In October 2014 he worked with the classical music ensemble “Trio Dell’Arte”, creating three animated shorts for three of their concerts in Nicosia, Limassol and Paphos. In April 2015 he participated in the Street Art Square Festival.

His film “Workhouse” (2012), participated in the London Greek Film Festival, the International Motion Festival in Nicosia, the Bruce Campbell’s Horror Film Festival, the Sarmat International Independent Film Festival, the Depth of Field International Film Festival and the Blow-Up Chicago International Art House Film Fest. It was preselected for the Los Angeles Cinefest. For “Workhouse” he received the Best Animator Award in the Anim8fest International Animation Film Festival. His film “Large Scale Absurdities, Vol. 1” received the Award of Recognition at the IndieFest Film Awards.

Additionally, Charalambos has created (alone and in collaboration with others) video clips for several musicians in Greece and in France, such as the group Active Member, Yiorgos Zambetas, the group Pulcinella, Ian Balzan and others.

He is a member of the artistic collective “Miracle”, that is based in Paris but collaborates with a lot of artists (plasticians, poets, writers, philosophers and others) in many countries, such as Benin, Hungary and England. With “Miracle he participated in January 2015 in the F.OFF festival of comics in Angoulème.

In September 2015 he founded Kimonos Art Center in Paphos, together with Yiannis Sakellis, Nicolas Iordanou and Sylvia Nicolaides.