YEREVAN. - Satiric animated series Kill Dim were shot for inspiring the Armenian soldiers. Cartoonist David Sahakyants told the aforementioned to Armenian News – NEWS.am.   

The idea of creating animated series related to the Armenian Azerbaijani conflict came to David Sahakyants, his sister Nana Sahakyants and her husband Alexan Harutyunyan in 2012.

The authors of the series manifest their approach to the Armenian and Azerbaijani armies. They have created the character of a strong, attractive and combat capable Armenia soldier, and that of an Azerbaijani one which is associated with sheep.   

For security concerns, the members of the creative team preferred to work secretly in the initial stage, but after numerous absurd comments they decided to come out into the open. “We were advised to keep away from the Azeris. And I often left for Moscow then and took part in different events which were also attended by the Azeris. We also worked secretly because we didn’t want the name of Robert Sahakyants to be on the lips of our neighbors.  But when different comments were made about the authors of the animated series – there was even an opinion that the Azeris are shooting this – we revealed ourselves.  There was no point in hiding any longer,” Sahakyants said.

Each series is created on the basis of a specific event, which is apparently presented grotesquely. “Our neighbors do so many stupid things, that I think the informational motives will be merely limitless,” Savid Sahakyants said.

The shooting of each series took nearly 7 to 14 days. The members of the creative team tried to quickly react to any given event. Hayk and David Sahakyants worked on the first series, and were later joined by Nana Sahakyants.

David Sahakyants confesses that the process of shooting Kill Dim was absolutely fantastic. “Those days passed very joyfully. We all gathered together, discussed which events to present and only then began shooting,” Savid Sahakyants said.

After several series, which were circulated in YouTube, the Azeris began sending complaints to the website demanding to ban showing Kill Dim. But they achieved nothing and started “attacking” the official website of the animated series, which, according to Sahakyants, is protected. “I’d better keep silent about the Azeris’ comments. We ‘ve even got information that our neighbors complained of Kill Dim at the highest level.  “What’s happening in Armenia? What are they shooting about us?” they outraged. And this is so pleasant to hear,” Sahakyants confessed.

In his words, they are not going to stop. The creative team has just paused a little in connection with their occupation and recent tension on the Line of Contact between the Azerbaijani and Karabakh Armed Forces, as well as on the Armenian-Azerbaijani border.  “A very tense situation emerged last year, as a result of which our guys are dying. We decided that it would be incorrect to joke in such a situation,” David Sahakyants said. But he promised that new series of Kill Dim will appear soon, since they inspire the Armenian soldiers on the border. “We recently visited one of the military units in Martakert. The guys were inspired by our animation series. The Armenian Army has many Kill Dim fans.  For this very reason we are going to continue our series,”Sahakyants concluded.