Rakesh is an accidental friend I made when I was still working with ScoopWhoop. I got in touch with him for his illustration skills and we stayed friends over time. So when he told me he was going to start his own studio, I wanted to help him out as much as I could, with whatever I could.
The exercise of “giving inputs” every now and then turned into a “why don’t you come on board?” after a couple of months and I ended up joining as a Creative. As things progressed we experimented a lot with the direction and stuff we wanted to do as THS and in a few months we started getting great response from our audience that fuelled the dream of being a desi animation studio and telling authentic Indian stories further.
Getting on board as a co-founder was a big deal for me, though it didn’t change the fact that we were still friends who wanted to do great work. So a lot of meetings, brainstorming, going over scripts, and client work later, we are here. With a crazy number of people supporting us on YouTube and Instagram and a decent amount of client work in our first year, we’re looking at a bigger and crazier second year of THS.
The best thing about this has been the freedom to re-live my childhood through the stories we create. To top it off, animation as a medium gives you the freedom to think as big as you can because you don’t need Bhansali-level budgets and sets to create something. And with the incredible team we have, some twenty-odd people, I am confident that we’re here to stay and tell more and more stories the audience wants and deserves.
And on that note, cheers to you for reading the ramblings of an accidental co-founder and making it this far. Hope you stay because we have so many more stories to tell.
Cheers!
