Simon's Cat

I first heard about Simon Tofield on bbc news, he was in an interview regarding the animation below, when i saw it i thought it was fantastic so i decided to research who Simon Tofield was. Simon Tofieldis an English animator who has a great interest in British wildlife, painting, the great outdoors and of course cats. He has three cats - Hugh, Maisie and Jess. Simon draws all of the Simon's Cat films himself. This can require up to 25 drawings per second of animation. He uses Adobe Flash to animate his cartoons. Simon draws on an A4-size Wacom Intuos 3 pen and tablet. Simon works alongside Shrooty who is a talented sound designer who works on the films with Simon. He makes all the character sounds in the films himself, including the meows! Now that's good Foley work...



After watching the animation i related it with some principles. I defineatly thought it showed squash and stretch when the cat pulls his owners ear. I also noticed that weight was used when the cat was walking along the bed, you could obviously see the weight of the cat inprinted on the bed sheets. Another principle is anticipation when the cat flings the basball bat back ready to crack his owner on the end, all and all a very good animation.