About Me
Emily The Cartoonist /Emily Friis
Emily L. Friis is a Danish Multimedia Designer/ Content Creator, with a background in Animation, Illustration and writing. she has puplished a graphic novel, worked as a illustrator on a fantasy novel and created two animated short films for Jyljkat studios, the animation studio she founded in early 2024
Education
In 2023 Emily earned a degree in Multimedia design from arhus Business College, there she specialized in Content Creation. as a Multimedia Designer she is trained in webdesign, both as a frontend and backend developer with experience in html, CSS and Java, but also with WordPress and elementor. She is also taught in the art of graphic design and illustration. She has worked a lot with the adobe family of programs as well as tested her skills with apps such as procreate dreams and clip studio EX. Beside this she is also good with motion graphics and SEO.
She has also graduated from Tjele Efterskole where she was taught 2D animation under Mikkel Mainz Elkjær, who later mentored her under an internship at suncreature studio. here she earned her skills in storyboarding, key frame animation and character animation.
Emily is also Formally trained in classical drawing/ draftsmanship at TegneskolenKBH. here she was taught under the Artist Rasmus Aagaard.
On the Working Path To Art.
In 2017 Emily interned at Suncreature Studio. At the Internship she learned how to work in a team studio setting. She also learned to work in the 2D animation software TvPaint.
In 2019 to 2020 Emily interned at FriRumLab which is a art workshop In
Denmark that works with sustainability . Here she got to teach children how to draw as well as animate. She also made SoMe content for the workshop.
In 2020 Emily got Contacted by the YouTuber Vera Wylde also known as Council of geeks, to work on Illustrations for their fantasy novel
“Dreams of fire“. Published later in 2021.
Later in 2021 she also published her own graphic novel: Ellie and Victoria Bitten by magic, An LGBTQ+ graphic novel, about a Transgender Vampire and her Witch girlfriend. In 2024 Emily interned at Naturetales as a 2D Animator and Illustrator, here she made animations for their new app. This is also the point where she Founded Jyljkat Animation Studio. here she created and published 2 of her own animated short films under the names of: Mussos big sea adventure and Space cat Cosmonaut.
At Jyljkat Emily also got to work with Bloddonorende Denmark (the Danish organization for Blod donors) here she made a 2D animated ad for their Social Media.