Five colours.
Infinite stories.
One folk house
in a box.
Folkwithfolks is a pan-Indian folk house built by one Mumbai animator — a place to read the tale, build the puppet, light the set, and bring Chanakya, Birbal, and the Panchatantra alive with your own hands. Open the box. Turn the page.
— honour sources · the hand is visible · folk is plural —
Every angle. Every folk.
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Once upon a Sunday, in a small room in Mumbai…
Folk tales raised generations of Indian children. Then television raised one. Then YouTube raised the next. Somewhere in between, we stopped making things with our hands.
Folkwithfolks is a pan-Indian folk house — storytelling, kids' learning, and a working animation studio, all wired together. Patua's scroll on one shelf. Mitti aur mithi for the children. The Vibhag — the workshop — at the back, lit late into the night.
You don't just watch the story. You build the puppet. Knot the shikha. Light the set. Bring Chanakya, Birbal, Tenali Rama, and the Panchatantra to life under your own hands.
One animator. One mission. Folk culture, alive again — and plural, the way it always was.
Three rooms.
One folk house.
Patua tells the tale. Mitti shapes the child. Vibhag does the work. Everything is made by hand, in Mumbai — nothing dropshipped, nothing white-labelled.
The tale,
told slow.
Cinematic stop-motion folk tales — Chanakya, Birbal, Tenali Rama, Panchatantra. Free on YouTube. Forever. The scroll unrolls one Sunday at a time.
Open the scroll →Earth and sweet.
Build the puppet.
Stop-motion kits and courses for kids and first-makers. Clay, armature wire, foil, fabric, an illustrated tale, and a folk character to bring alive. Tactile, generous, bilingual.
Open the kit →The workshop.
For makers.
The toolbox from my own films — storyboard templates, LUTs, sound libraries, brush packs, motion graphics. Phad-grid composition, Tanjore-gold flourishes, working files.
Open the workshop →A new tale, a new tool,
on your doorstep every Sunday.
₹299 a month buys you a seat inside the folk house. One new template, one new sound, one new tale — slipped under your door every week. The studio, without the dust.
Free folk tales.
Every Sunday. Forever.
A new stop-motion tale goes up on YouTube every Sunday. No paywall, no skip-button hostage-taking — just the reel, and a free storyboard pack if you'd like to make your own.
mid-shoot, warm light ]
Hi, I'm Vyom.
Master of Design in Animation, MIT Pune. Stop-motion animator, filmmaker, and an obsessive folk-culture nerd, working out of a small lit room in Mumbai.
Folkwithfolks is everything I make — the films, the kits, the tools, the tales. Every order leaves from my desk. Every email reply is mine. Every kit is built the way I'd want my own kid to use it.
The hand is visible. That is the point.
Ask me anything — I answer my own DMs.
@katha.by.vyom