Marjut Rimminen

Commercials

Invite, Hi!

1983 · Commercial · 20 seconds

Oxygenol / Womena / Ruutukuva

A 1983 television commercial for Invite nail varnish and lipstick by Oxygenol, animated by Marjut Rimminen. Drawn animation on paper, coloured with felt-tip pens. The scarf's blurred effect was achieved by shooting two layers on a rostrum camera: the scarf underneath one layer of paper, lit from behind. The magazine advertisement used her illustration, but not the blurring effect.

Still from Invite, Hi!: a woman in profile, in white sunglasses, sips through a green straw with pink nails, her scarf a soft blur of green and blue. Still from Invite, Hi!: the woman faces us in round white sunglasses, red lips, a green straw in her red-nailed hand, a blurred pink and orange scarf behind. Still from Invite, Hi!: the woman in profile again, red lips at the straw, red nails, her scarf now a blur of brown and pink. Still from Invite, Hi!: a red-nailed hand takes hold of the white sunglasses to lift them. Still from Invite, Hi!: the woman in white sunglasses touches a red lipstick to her lips, a blurred pink scarf around her. Still from Invite, Hi!: the sunglasses pushed up on her head, the woman looks out with green eyes and smiles with red lips, a white bangle on her wrist.
Stills from the film
Magazine advertisement headed "Hai!": Marjut’s drawing of the woman lifting her white sunglasses, above the words Invite by Oxygenol, a bottle of nail varnish and a lipstick, and an address in Espoo.
The magazine advertisement, with her illustration

Credits

Animation
Marjut Rimminen

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