Simon's Cat

Simon Tofield, known by his YouTube username Simon's Cat, is a British animator and YouTuber. He is famous for his animated webseries featuring the mischievous and often hilarious antics of a fat white cat and his owner Simon. As of January 2014, Simon's Cat has over 2.65 million subscribers and 453 million video views.

Biography
Simon's Cat is created by British animator Simon Tofield. He initially learned animation by making flip-books. Simon is a huge fan of cats. He got his first real-life cat when he was 9 years old when he rescued it from an animal shelter.

Currently Simon has 4 cats, Jess, Maisie, Hugh and Teddy.

YouTube
The inspiration of Simon's Cat came from Simon Tofield's experiences with his real life cats. His first video, Cat Man Do came from Hugh trying to wake Simon up one morning. He made the film to teach himself Flash, an animation software, never expecting it to become so popular. The video was posted on March 4th, 2008. As of January 2014, it has over 46.5 million views.

It takes Tofield 6 weeks to animate one video and another week to add sounds.

Books
Due to the success of his YouTube videos, Simon has published several books. Simon's Cat: In his very own book was published on September 24th 2009. Simon's Cat: Beyond the Fence was published on June 2nd 2011. Simon's Cat in Kitten Chaos was published in April, 2013. Simon's Cat vs. the World was published on October 1st, 2013

Trivia

 * Simon has 4 cats in real life.