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ANAHIT: NEW ARMENIAN ANIMATED FILM PROVES POPULAR WITH CHILDREN, ADULT AUDIENCES
Features | 23.01.15 | 12:33
Alina Nikoghosyan
ArmeniaNow reporter
It has been four weeks already that the Anahit full length animated
film created by Armenian animators is on big screen and seems to have
been taken well by large audiences.
Tatev Manukyan, a 30-year-old accountant, after watching Anahit with
her six-year-old son, recommends to all parents to take their children
to watch it.
"I am amazed; an immensely positive, high-quality, humorous cartoon.
The highest appreciation can be considered the fact that after
watching it, my son immediately expressed the desire to watch it
again," she said.
The plot of the 85-minute-long cartoon on big screen since December
27 is based on the fairy tale by Ghazaros Aghayan. It was created
using traditional drawing animation technology and 3D graphics.
According to the authors of the animated film, in its type and by
its peculiarities it is the first in the history of Armenian animation.
Speaking of new technologies, one of the producers, Hayk Sahakyants,
said that the technologies applied in the cartoon are new only for
Armenia.
"There were many difficulties, solutions came in the form of
improvisation, that's why we were trying to gradually come to what
is done in Disney, but to do it on our own," he said.
The story told in the animated film is about the fight between the good
and the evil, and as in all fairy tales, the good prevails in the end.
The animators of the "Tavern" by Robert Sahakyants were working on
the creation of Anahit since 2009, and using the contents of the fairy
tale, they gave it a fresh spirit presenting it anew, consistent with
modern times.
"The format with which we worked on Anahit - a fairy tale, a musical
fairy tale, with the number of characters, made with that type of
animation, full length, and applying modern technologies, etc. -
this approach is unprecedented," the director of the animation,
David Sahakyants said.
The director said that the animated film has already been presented to
three festivals and there will be many others. It also has prospects
of being screened in Russia as well. The director also hopes that
Anahit will also be shown in the United States.
After the screening, despite many positive opinions, there was also
criticism regarding the usage of some Russian words in the cartoon,
the selection of the outer image, not the inner image of the evil,
whose name is Enver (Enver Pasha was one of the initiators of the
1915 Armenian Genocide in Ottoman Turkey).
"We had an idea of introducing Prince Vachagan as an educated
character, and we decided that he must know another language, and it
was supposed to be either Greek, Iranian or Russian. We chose Russian
because it is still used in Armenia and Armenians understand it,"
David Sahakyants said in response to the criticism, and in reference
to the evil's character the director said: "The outer enemy appears
only when there is an enemy inside, and I think that the outside
enemy is the ethnicity that we introduced in Anahit, with the very
name it bears - Enver."
Reflecting on creating the characters, production designer Ernest
Muradyan said that he imagined and drew the figures based on the
temperament the screenwriters gave to the characters, frankly adding
that creating Enver's image was the hardest.
The cartoon characters are voiced by well-known Armenian actors and
actresses Hrant Tokhatyan, Nazeni Hovhannisyan, Shushan Petroyan,
Khoren Levonyan and others.
http://armenianow.com/society/features/60055/armenia_animated_film
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
Features | 23.01.15 | 12:33
Alina Nikoghosyan
ArmeniaNow reporter
It has been four weeks already that the Anahit full length animated
film created by Armenian animators is on big screen and seems to have
been taken well by large audiences.
Tatev Manukyan, a 30-year-old accountant, after watching Anahit with
her six-year-old son, recommends to all parents to take their children
to watch it.
"I am amazed; an immensely positive, high-quality, humorous cartoon.
The highest appreciation can be considered the fact that after
watching it, my son immediately expressed the desire to watch it
again," she said.
The plot of the 85-minute-long cartoon on big screen since December
27 is based on the fairy tale by Ghazaros Aghayan. It was created
using traditional drawing animation technology and 3D graphics.
According to the authors of the animated film, in its type and by
its peculiarities it is the first in the history of Armenian animation.
Speaking of new technologies, one of the producers, Hayk Sahakyants,
said that the technologies applied in the cartoon are new only for
Armenia.
"There were many difficulties, solutions came in the form of
improvisation, that's why we were trying to gradually come to what
is done in Disney, but to do it on our own," he said.
The story told in the animated film is about the fight between the good
and the evil, and as in all fairy tales, the good prevails in the end.
The animators of the "Tavern" by Robert Sahakyants were working on
the creation of Anahit since 2009, and using the contents of the fairy
tale, they gave it a fresh spirit presenting it anew, consistent with
modern times.
"The format with which we worked on Anahit - a fairy tale, a musical
fairy tale, with the number of characters, made with that type of
animation, full length, and applying modern technologies, etc. -
this approach is unprecedented," the director of the animation,
David Sahakyants said.
The director said that the animated film has already been presented to
three festivals and there will be many others. It also has prospects
of being screened in Russia as well. The director also hopes that
Anahit will also be shown in the United States.
After the screening, despite many positive opinions, there was also
criticism regarding the usage of some Russian words in the cartoon,
the selection of the outer image, not the inner image of the evil,
whose name is Enver (Enver Pasha was one of the initiators of the
1915 Armenian Genocide in Ottoman Turkey).
"We had an idea of introducing Prince Vachagan as an educated
character, and we decided that he must know another language, and it
was supposed to be either Greek, Iranian or Russian. We chose Russian
because it is still used in Armenia and Armenians understand it,"
David Sahakyants said in response to the criticism, and in reference
to the evil's character the director said: "The outer enemy appears
only when there is an enemy inside, and I think that the outside
enemy is the ethnicity that we introduced in Anahit, with the very
name it bears - Enver."
Reflecting on creating the characters, production designer Ernest
Muradyan said that he imagined and drew the figures based on the
temperament the screenwriters gave to the characters, frankly adding
that creating Enver's image was the hardest.
The cartoon characters are voiced by well-known Armenian actors and
actresses Hrant Tokhatyan, Nazeni Hovhannisyan, Shushan Petroyan,
Khoren Levonyan and others.
http://armenianow.com/society/features/60055/armenia_animated_film
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress