About

Emma Friel is a freelance animator/illustrator born on the 5th September 1991 and graduated with a Foundation Degree in Animation and a BA Hons in Creative Practice from Newcastle college. Originally from Glasgow, Scotland, she now lives and works in Newcastle, England. Her current projects are a webcomic called Crumbs, an illustrated children's novel called The Adventures of Bertie Blue, illustrations of Bucky the Staghound for Ruari O'Toole's Beer Reviews and a currently untitled animated yeti project.

Alongside her freelance work, she is hoping to attend Northumbria University next year to obtain her Masters of Arts in Animation.

She is available for hire and works in traditional animation, illustration, comics, character designing, conceptual art, storyboarding, caricatures, motion graphics and tattoo design. Contact her to learn more.

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"Oh no, which one do I shoot??"

EMPLOYMENT
Self (2014- present), Steve Halsey (2013-present)

PRESS
2014, The Journal, "WW1 Centenary Is A Flight Of Fancy For Emma", Barbara Hodgson
2014, News Post Leader, "Kids' Books About The First World War", Tegan Chapman
2012, The Cocktail Hour, Emma Friel Interview, Ellen Murphy

SCREENINGS/EXHIBITIONS
2012, 'The Great Experiment, The Big Draw Campaign for Drawing
2012, 'This is Not An Exit', Star and Shadow Cinema