“After all the years of painstaking stop-frame animation I have discovered the pleasure of making picture books. Instead of shooting hundreds of frames as in animation, I only need to get one shot of the scene for telling the story. The Piglet books were created for my niece’s daughter Tiia. One of her toys was left behind in my house after her visit. On her third birthday, I presented Tiia the first story book “Piglet came to Maimu’s house” that told the story, what happened to Piglet and how he settled in to his new life in my house where a large black male cat dominated the territory. Now there is another story of how “Piglet found Maimu’s dolls house” and got to know its inhabitants. A third book is in production and further more stories are waiting to mature. The books are written in Finnish and English, but entirely English version is in the pipeline.”
July 2010
Laiz Lavrattti | 14-Sep-10 at 11:52 am | Permalink
Very cute! Poor little pig, he got lost in your house. Just had a little place on a couch with the risk of still sitting on him. Tiia means aunt in Portuguese, you know that? Well, in Portuguese, is written “tia”, then just missing an ‘i’!
Laiz Lavratti | 15-Sep-10 at 8:33 am | Permalink
Even in the second booklet, the poor pig is totally ignored by Blackie. Then naively he acts like a Pollyanna and go after the house of dolls … Poor thing, he is a child!
Laiz Lavratti | 23-Sep-10 at 12:01 pm | Permalink
Stop making the piggy cry, give a happy ending for him, the book is for children. (I’m very nosy, is not it?) Hugs!
Sara | 05-Oct-11 at 8:03 pm | Permalink
I want to watch any movie of yours, since I saw you in the documentary Window of the soul..your history made me cry, it’s so sensitive.
Marjut | 11-Oct-11 at 4:56 am | Permalink
Thank you for your comment. You can obtain my films on DVD by clicking the “DVD available” links. Best wishes.
Laiz Lavratti | 20-Oct-11 at 7:06 pm | Permalink
olha só, outra fã! outra fã que foi tratada com cortesia pela Marjut, que é muito legal e modesta também! bem vinda ao clube, Sara!
Laiz Lavratti | 20-Oct-11 at 7:06 pm | Permalink
hey, another fan! another fan who was treated with courtesy by Marjut, which is very nice and modest too! welcome to the club, Sarah!
Laiz Lavratti | 20-Oct-11 at 7:18 pm | Permalink
the history of our great artist didn`t make me cry, because I’ve heard much worse stories. but either way, it is worse than mine, but even so, Ms. Rimminen is recognized as the great entertainer that she is, and is formed by the Helsinki College. Many Happy Returns has recieved a lot of awards won and deserved to have received two more times. is so great that can be used as support for the study of the great scholars of the area psychiatry and psychology. is the most beautiful and more terrible than ever seen in my life. spent my life looking forward to this movie without knowing it was him that I wanted. it was not until 2007 that I discovered it, and it was not until 2010 that I could see it all.
Lucy Lee | 18-Nov-11 at 6:07 am | Permalink
Are these books for sale? If so where can we buy them?
Marjut | 18-Nov-11 at 1:24 pm | Permalink
Thank you for your interest. Books are for sale http://www.blurb.com/search/site_search?search=Pikkupossu&filter=bookstore&commit=Search
Andrew Osmond | 03-May-12 at 7:06 am | Permalink
Dear Ms Rimminen,
I am a British journalist and author specialising in animation. I am writing to you on behalf of another author, Giannalberto Bendazzi.
As you may know, Mr Bendazzi wrote a very comprehensive book on world animation in the 1990s, called Cartoons: One Hundred Years of Cinema Animation.
Mr Bendazzi is currently working on an even more comprehensive update to the book, which would bring it up to date. He is anxious to represent as many animators as possible, and has asked me to approach artists and request stills from their work.
Please could I ask, would you be willing to have any of your images used by Mr Bendazzi?
I would be extremely grateful if you could provide images from any of these works:
The Stain Urpo & Turpo Many Happy Returns Mixed Feelings Red Ribbon Learned by Heart
Yours sincerely,
Andrew Osmond
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Queren Emanuele | 12-Mar-13 at 8:01 pm | Permalink
Dear Ms Rimminen,
I am a Brazilian student,and i love your work,you are a amazing woman,beautiful and creative.thank you so much for your art! i wish you the best!