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Artist Profile: Stavros Loutsios

27/08/2016 by

Today’s Featured Artist for CCC16 is talented 3D-artist and animator Stavros Loutsios!

Stavros is an extremely passionate multidisciplinary artist, working both with media and 3D printing. From a young age he developed a passion for games, cartoons and anime. That passion has led him to study Applied Multimedia at the University of Nicosia and follow up with a master’s degree in Animation and Visual Effects at the University of Bradford.

To see more of Stavros work, visit his Facebook page.

For the past couple of years he has been using his 3D modeling and animation skills to design and edit 3D models, which he then brings to life, with the help of a 3D printer. Even though this technology is still young, it already offers multidisciplinary designers unlimited possibilities. His experimentation drove him in creating household items which are related to games, anime, cartoons and TV series.

Stavros currently lives and works in Nicosia as a freelance multimedia designer. He is the creator and owner of King’s Forge, a Facebook page where he posts about ongoing, as well as future projects. He welcomes everyone to contact him and share their ideas with him and he can help you develop them into final products!

Artist Profile: Claudia Moussoulos

25/08/2016 by

Meet our next Featured Artist for CCC16, 3D modeler and concept designer Claudia Ilona Moussoulos!

Claudia (aka Claud) was born in Nicosia Cyprus in 1993. She studied Computer Visualization and Animation at Bournemouth University in UK. As a kid she had always had a passion for art, as well as video games. She participated in various competitions and also had her very own art exhibition at the age of 16, called “The first step” in October 2009. As she advanced into adulthood, Claudia was able to take her art a step further, by combining her passion for games and movies, which in return helped motivate her to reach her goal.

More of Claudia’s work can be seen on her Facebook page.

She is currently working as a Designer at DiktyoHub and a 3D Modeler and concept artist at Ascanio Enertainment. In her free time, Claudia works as a freelancer, working on projects that vary from Comic Art, Traditional art and 3D Design.

This year at Comic Con, Claudia will be in collaboration with Ascanio Entertainment, and will showcase Artwork and 3D models created for the Game “CrashForce”, as well as releasing a comic book created in collaboration with two talented musicians S.P. and Deniel Pavlovsky who will also be at the booth with her, promoting their newly released album “Book of Life”, as the Comic book “Charlie the Scarecrow” is based on one of the songs in the album.

 

Artist Profile: Winter’s Verge

25/08/2016 by

Winter’s Verge are returning to Cyprus Comic Con as Featured Artists, to showcase the immersive fantasy universe they have created alongside their music!

About the band

Winter’s Verge are one of Cyprus’ most established metal bands. Formed in 2004 by singer George Charalambous, the band has released four full-length albums in its history, and has been an active force on the Cyprus scene as well as abroad. Winter’s Verge are also noted for their immersive world-building, and an entire realm exists within which all Winter’s Verge songs play a part and a role in an overarching storyline and universe.

For more information about the band and its upcoming activities, visit their official website and follow them on Facebook,

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The World of Tiberon

Tiberon is a rich and varied place, with a diverse cast of characters, locations and various histories that are being explored by the band’s music. The world of Tiberon is constantly being updated and developed, as the band creates more music so does Tiberon take on a definitive character and form.

In 2015, the band took the decision to branch out into not just producing music and the standard merchandise, but to commit to further developing Tiberon and the stories that take place within it, as an inspiration for, and from, the music that the band creates.

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Working with several talented local artists, Winter’s Verge are in the process of developing a unique experience for all fans of the band. To this end, Winter’s Verge have created a varied line of merchandise to support and complement this world.

Along with the usual T-shirts, Winter’s Verge are proud to display a range of innovative merchandise, relating to the band’s storytelling prowess, exhibiting the band’s creativity and offering to fans the chance to discover all there is to know about Tiberon, along with clues of what to expect in the future!

Winter’s Verge are proud to be a part of Cyprus Comic Con 2016, where they will offer their full range of merchandise as well as all of their albums to date!

Make sure to stop by their booth to learn more about the Tiberon universe and the band’s future projects!

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Artist Profile: Siadora Papatheodorou

24/08/2016 by

Young illustrator Siadora Papatheodorou will be one of our Featured Artists for CCC16!

Siadora was born in 1994 just outside of Athens, Greece, where she has been living for the past few years. She loved to draw from a very young age (mostly Pokémon and comics) and quickly realised that drawing was what she wanted to do for the rest of her life. She decided to follow her dream of studying art and enrolled at the Athens School of Fine Arts. Siadora mainly creates comics and illustrations and says that telling stories through her artwork is what she enjoys the most.

You can see more of Siadora’s creations on her Tumblr and Instagram pages.

In 2015, she completed her first comic book titled ‘4,5 SEASONS’, a collection of four-and-a-half fantasy stories, which she self-published and presented at ComicDom Con in Athens. In 2016, she returned with another self-published project titled ‘Danae thrown to the Wolves’, a (slightly longer) fantasy story. She is currently working as a freelance illustrator, creating concept art for videogames and designs for various projects, however professionally she wishes to work in the comic book industry. In the meantime, she has been testing a few ideas for new comics, two out of which are currently under way and – you guessed it – are also fantasy-themed! Maybe after these two she might consider trying out a different genre. In the far future, she would like to write a novel. And make even more comics, of course!

Siadora has been participating in various comic conventions all around Greece for the last two years and she is very excited to visit Cyprus for CCC16!

Artist Profile: Constantinos Hadjidemetri

24/08/2016 by

Meet our next Featured Artist for CCC16, talented illustrator Constantinos Hadjidemetri.

Constantinos received his BA in fine arts from the Accademia di Belle Arti di Roma (Fine arts Accademy of Rome) in 2006. The same year he moved to Perugia where he studied a six-month intensive course of Italian language and culture at Universita per Stranieri di Perugia and by the end of that year, he temporarily moved to Cyprus. There, he participated at the first organised short film festival Ideodromio, in his hometown Limassol and later at the Short Film & Documentary Festival of Cyprus, in the categories of Short film and Animation and Student Fiction Film.

To learn more about Constantinos and his work, visit his website and Facebook page.

During 2006 and 2008 he has worked as a freelance illustrator and animator for the Eagle Casino Games and prepared a new short film for the Intransition exhibition at the National Centers for Contemporary Arts of Ekaterinburg and Moscow. During that period he also participated with a painting in The Red Cross Summer Exhibition at The Hague. Moving then to Spain, he undertook a postgraduate program in 2D & 3D Animation at Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona) and received his Masters in 2009. After his graduation he begun to work as a freelancer for various clients such as V5 & Cleanenergy in Barcelona, Tsiakkas Wineries and Gevorest in Cyprus. During the years 2013-16, he worked as an illustrator and animator at ZEDEM Media, a company specializing in educational video. Working under the label of ZEDEM, he created designs for companies such as ‘The School of Life’ and ‘TEDed’.