It was while applying for an animation course at the National Institute of Design in Ahmedabad that Haribaabu Naatesan first laid the foundations of how he’d go on to express himself as an artist in the future. He wanted to do something different to impress his interviewers. So, he made two sculptures, of a crab and a spider, entirely out of scrap material including aluminium clothes hangers and deflated table-tennis balls. The legs of these sculptures could move, which made them suitable for animation films, and the interviewers were impressed enough to accept Naatesan into the premier institute.