Simon's Cat

Simon's Cat is a series of short animations that began on YouTube. The style of the animations is very simple with its characters just drawn out in black on a plain white background. The videos play around a comic narrative surrounding the cat and what it does to its owner which has proved extremely popular. The animator behind these 'masterpieces' is Simon Tofield, he began animating at a young age and as you can see by his projects he was inspired by cartoons. He does own cats himself so can be seen to base elements of his narrative on how cats behave. He does spend time drawing out each bit of detail at a time which does mean each clip takes him a while to produce but he does use Adobe Flash to piece it altogether in a smooth format.

The success can be seen in an article in the Daily Mail which can be accessed on this link. 'Feline phenomenon Simon's Cat stars in his debut full-length COLOUR book and new online animation' There is now a new children's book that has been released by Simon based around his on-line animations. The audience of this book would be targeting children but his on-line animations show that adults love them too. He is considering releasing a DVD holding all of his videos but they are all on his YouTube channel for all to see. As you can see from the image below the progression to books has meant Simon can be more detailed within his sketches adding lots of background images. He has also transgressed into combining colour within the book as well, this would have been more time consuming to do when it comes to an animation video.