Sylvester

Sylvester is one of the tritagonists in Animation Acres.

Creation and original origins
Sylvester was originally from the Looney Tunes/Merrie Melodies series of animated shorts. He appeared in 103 shorts from The Golden Age.

He was created by Friz Freleng and first appeared in the 1945 short, Life With Feathers. In 1947, Freleng decided to pair his cat with Tweety Bird after his creator Bob Clampett left the studio, although producer Eddie Selzer wanted Sylvester to be paired with a nameless woodpecker from Peck Up Your Troubles. Their first short, Tweetie Pie won the studio it's first Academy Award. Since then, Tweety and Sylvester were a dynamic duo. Other enemies Sylvester has include Speedy Gonzales and Hippety Hopper, and their shorts were directed by Friz Freleng and Robert McKimson. Chuck Jones' take on the character was as Porky Pig's mute but frightening pet trying to save him from constant terrors.

The legendary Mel Blanc provided Sylvester's voice. Before Sylvester's appearance in the cartoons, Blanc voiced a character named Sylvester on The Judy Canova Show using the voice that would eventually become associated with the cat.

Animation Acres
He is the pet cat of Spike and Twilight Sparkle, and is usually trying to eat their pet canary, Tweety, but fails everytime. But he still cares for his family, usually being protective of Spike, Twilight and even Tweety at times. He's also shown distrust of Spike's babysitters Anna and Elsa, for he knows of Elsa's powers, something Twilight and Spike don't. He also gets into a few fights with Iago, as whenever the parrot is near, Sylvester takes a break from Tweety to hunt Iago.