“Intially Aamir was not very sure about the use of clay animation, but once we showed him the effects, he was very pleased and took personal interest even in learning it,” says Godbole. The 26-year-old is also a photographer and a storyboard artist who has done storyboarding for ad-films like Scooty Pep that stars Preity Zinta.

“Nobody in my family had anything to do with fine arts or films. Drawing was just a hobby and I never thought that I will end up doing something like this,” says Godbole, who works as a senior graphic designer in Upside Learning, an e-learning firm in the city. A graduate in commercial arts from Abhinav Kala Mandir, he has also designed sets for plays of Alpha and Theatre Academy. His illustrations were used in Kranti Kanade’s Marathi Film Shala. “For three minutes of animated sequence we worked for more than three months,” he says, talking passionately about each shot and the clay models which were manually made for each scene.

“We used transitions like morphs, camera moves, elements appearing and disappearing, or you have one element dragging you to anther scene, so there is no cut till the end. And you do not realize when the three minutes pass by,” he explains.