Sunday, July 31, 2011
"To Shoot A Rurf" features on 366WeirdMovies.com
We're proud to be featured on the site as it celebrates the weird and odd movies that we love so much - and 366WeirdMovies also happens to have the funniest and smartest reviews I have ever read.
Seriously! Read some of the write-ups for 'Manos the Hands of Faith' or 'Death Bed: The Bed that Eats' and you will literally wet your pants!
You can watch To Shoot a Rurf film here.
Thursday, July 24, 2008
To Shoot A Rurf at Animanima Film Festival Serbia 2008

To Shoot A Rurf is playing at the Serbian Animation Film Festival Animanima in September.
The festival runs from Sept 10th to 13th.
I just scanned down through the lineup and there is some excellent films being shown there.
If for some reason you happen to find yourself in Serbia around that time, then I'd highly recommend going along to the screenings.
Shane
Sunday, March 30, 2008
To Shoot A Rurf featured in Animation World Magazine
Our film To Shoot A Rurf is featured in this months Animation World Magazine.
It gets reviewed in the “Fresh From The Festivals” section.
An image from the film is also used as one of the main images on the front page of this months site.
AWN.com (Animation World Network) and is the biggest and best animation website on the net and they are responsible for Animation World Magazine, VFX World Magazine and the A.I.D.B (Animation Industry Database).
Here's the opening from that review:
Ever have one of those nights where you're just trying to sober yourself up enough to avoid a terrible hangover the next day, but you inadvertently take some mind-altering medication and are forced to confront the deepest, darkest recesses of your own soul instead? This film is kind of like that.
You can read the review in full here:
http://mag.awn.com/index.php?ltype=pageone&article_no=3590&page=2Thursday, December 20, 2007
OSCAR: Free Fully Rigged Character for Blender 3D

I present OSCAR, a free Blender 3D fully rigged character I created the other day.
OSCAR is an acronym for Open Source Character And Rig.
Download OSCAR here http://www.mediafire.com/?dcdkxkmtx1f
The armature used to control OSCAR allows a good range of animation and it's really simple to use.

You can download him from the here http://www.mediafire.com/?dcdkxkmtx1f
My only stipulation is that OSCAR or any derivatives you make based on the character cannot be sold as a standalone package or as part of a model collection.
Apart from that stipulation, you can use OSCAR for all your personnal, learning or even in commercial works.
Of course it'd be nice if you let me know where you've used OSCAR!
The file is compressed with 7Zip (which if you don't have you can download from http://7Zip.org. It's the best compression software, by the way).
The file contains a txt document outlining the license and instructions for the character rig.
If you don't have Blender 3D you can download it from here http://www.blender.org
Blender is a free Open Source animation and modelling suite and it's what I used to create OSCAR.
So, anyway, enjoy the character and rig!
http://www.mediafire.com/?dcdkxkmtx1f
NOTE: this is a newer version of OSCAR, with a number of fixes!
Wednesday, August 1, 2007
To Shoot A Rurf at Angel Film Festival UK
You can see the film on Saturday 15th September 2pm - 5pm, King's Head, Islington.
Tuesday, July 31, 2007
To Shoot A Rurf on I.M.D.B
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Tuesday, July 17, 2007
Dwarfed Films Blog reached the century
TO Shoot A Rurf at Portobello Film Festival 2007
Visit the Portobello Film Festival 2007 site and download the programme brochure (2mb-PDF format).
Tuesday, July 10, 2007
To Shoot A Rurf: WATCH THE MOVIE !!!!
Quicktime streaming Video - High Quality
Or simply watch an ultra low-res version here!
Monday, May 7, 2007
To Shoot A Rurf: poster

Here is the poster for To Shoot A Rurf.
It's all pretty self-explanatory with the image of the Guy taking aim at a Rurf.
The film was produced by Dwarfed Films, written and directed by Shane Sheils and Paula Sheils. The animation and 3D modelling was performed by Shane Sheils.
Click on the image to view it full size.
Head over to Dwarfed Films website for more information and all the latest news and features on this and their other films. Or you can email Dwarfed Films here
Monday, April 16, 2007
To Shoot A Rurf: Directors Notes interview





To Shoot A Rurf is now available to watch on Directors Notes, the independent filmmaking website. You can also listen to an interview with co-director Shane Sheils discussing the making of the film with Marvin Belle.
Directors Notes is a great website dedicated to the work of independent filmmakers.
Each week a director discusses the making of their particular film which is then put on the site as a podcast.
All round nice guy Marvin Belle, who runs the site, is a writer who ran the Directors Notes section of Showreel Magazine and edited the UK Filmmakers Bulletin for Shooting People.
Directors Notes is a great idea and Dwarfed Films were only too happy to discuss the making of To Shoot A Rurf.
Here's a brief synopsis to give you a flavour for the film:
And here is Marvin Belle's introduction to the interview:
Watch To Shoot A Rurf at the Directors Notes website now!
Click here to listen to the interview, view the press release, production stills, early animation tests and render layers "making of" demonstration!
Thursday, February 1, 2007
Tuesday, January 30, 2007
To Shoot A Rurf

Written/directed by Shane Sheils and Paula Sheils, TO SHOOT A RURF tells the tale of a drunken man’s attempts to sober up after bingeing on mind-altering drink ‘rurf’. To achieve this he must literally go inside his own head!
You can go to DWARFED FILMS official website here or email them here.