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TAWD b. DORENFELD
Writer/Director/Producer/Animator Tawd b. Dorenfeld has been exhibiting a rich career in innovation at unique turning points during the ever changing animation and film landscape, while always applying the same techniques that were used at the beginning of the art of film and animation. This is at the heart of Dorenfeld's skill and technique of film and animation. He is more interested in the use of frames per second and timing through frames than say the assistance of  interpolation used through an algorithm, therefore he has never worked in 3D and for Three Dimensional work he chooses Practicals and Stop Motion. - EVEN SO . . . All techinque follows story for it is story and character that drives all of what Dorenfeld does. The choice to make the story into whatever medium you are experiencing and in what form, and in what style, is all because the narrative requires and is being said through that technique.

1995 As early as his third year as a NYU Tisch Animation Student Dorenfeld was creating his first Animated Spot for Sony Music's Branford Marsalis on Painted Cells and shooting those cells on Video as he had no access to Photoshop Version 01.

1996 By Graduating NYU Dorenfeld had to self-learn Adobe Photoshop 2 and After Effects 2 with the assistance of a small under utilized animation company and their computer.

1997 He did this by creating a over-the-top twisted gory all hand-drawn animation, colored with colored pencil, scanned, celled in photoshopped, composited in AE, and which caught the attention of LA animation boutiques who were just starting to wonder how they too could get into this new computer animation. Dorenfeld was brought onto Title House as an Opening Credit designer where he was mentored by the great Pablo Ferro in Pablo's final year in the game. . . and then came FLASH.

1999 Immediately Dorenfeld took it upon himself to learn this new Macromedia Flash program that allowed animation to stream on the web with small file sizes. This combined with being picked up by Dreamworks TV Animation to produce his Original Family Animated Series brought Dorenfeld to the forefront of independent animators in the Hollywood Industry. (sadly not every show makes it to the screen...and in time the TV Animation Department will go bankrupt and everyone will lose their jobs, not just Tawd and his Little Bunny in the City.)

2000 - Finds Dorenfeld creating Online Animations and Games for Burger King, Nickelodeon, Disney, Star Wars, and More as a single-handed conceptualist and animator at the Toy Company Equity Marketing which ran major tentpole marketing campaigns. Dorenfeld's short films and animations get their own Streaming Channel on the Internet from CinemaNow one of the first streaming channels ever and a subsidiary of Lionsgate.

2000 - 2006 Dorenfeld spends a great deal of time within the Henson Lot. He develops with both Stephanie Allain & Brian Henson. He befriends Martin Olson. He does off camera kids interviews for the Telling Stories with Tomie dePaola show. He uses the lot to hold auditions for The Anna Cabrini Chronicles, and upon completion (2006) holds the Premiere for Cast and Crew in the historical Charlie Chaplin Theatre on the lot before setting off for its Theatrical Tour.

2001 - Dorenfeld single-handedly uses all that self-induced knowledge to create his own Alphabet Online Game that wins Best Educational Animation Produced for the Web in the World Animation Festival by Animation Magazine. 

And then the Music Videos and Feature Films begin. . .

2001 - Dorenfeld meets Veteran Music Video Director/Producer Douglas Freel, known for Def Leppard, Roxette, but Dorenfeld's go to Ministry. This meeting is at College Broadcast where Freel recruits Dorenfeld to create his Sal & Suie Series, 30 second shorts scored by Paul Barker of Ministry and broadcasted to over 400 colleges across the country. This Producer partnership begins to span a lifetime as they continue side-by-side to this day at their non-profit Tink Tank.

2002 - Remember that little old Branford Marsalis clip he did in 1995? That was done as an intern for Columbia Records, Lee Rolontz the Video Commissioner at the time. Now, Marion Bradley, who was Lee's second, had moved into Lee's position, moved to the Santa Monica office from NYC, and remembered Tawd, and didn't know anybody and had a painting of Tawd's she brought from NYC with her, hung in her office in Santa Monica, and wanted to give Tawd some starting Music Video work. It began with a simple painting of a backdrop for an Offspring photoshoot just to get my name in front of the band. Then saving a struggling video by creating Punk Rock Posters to enhance to piece and getting the label to support the project once again...that video won Mtv's Viewer's Choice Award - Good Charlotte's "Lifestyles of the Rich and the Famous," and that is why you even know of that band.
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2003 - The Offspring's Splinter and the Advent of Digital Still Cameras. Stop Motion enters the fray. Dorenfeld had done the Stop Motion with film for Anna Cabrini but the Digital Cameras were knew and it was through hiring Screen Novelties a small animation shop that was actually working in this very new landscape of Digital Still Photography and Stop Motion that allowed Dorenfeld to gain some additional knowledge to pave his own path in his expertise in Stop Motion animation. It is in this same year Dorenfeld and the great Bruce Bickford cross paths and their friendship, mentorship begins and continues until Bruce's end of days. Dorenfeld with much of an appreciation of Bruce's stop-motion abelites and Bruce's appreciation of Dorenfeld's solid line in his stream-of-conscious animation and his ability to organize a story. It was through Bruce, Dorenfeld learned he had a unique patience for the Neurodivergent mind when assisting one in organizing a narrative. It is also around these years Martin Olson has introduced Tawd to Lynette Louise an Autism specialist whom becomes a collaborator in a number of Dorenfeld projects and visa versa as he directs and animates a number of projects for Lynette with cast members such as Annie Potts (Ghostbusters) and Denise Crosby (Star Trek Next Generation).

2004 - Bad Acid Trip's Beef Moo gets overplayed on Headbangers Ball. Crazy as crazy can be on Mtv at the time was Dorenfeld's video for this System of the Down produced band. It wasn't the song the viewers were requesting, it wasn't getting radio play, it wasn't selling singles, they just wanted to watch the weirdness over and over again, for four months straight, people called in to Mtv asking for an unwanted song and a most wanted video. (However, this does not open the doors for the more commercially viable, budgeted bands to knock on one's door.)

2006 - The Anna Cabrini Chronicles the little independent part on 16mm, part DV, not on film, film that could be shown in theaters gets shown in theaters on DVD. The first movie to do so. West Coast Tour. Plays Castro Theater in San Francisco. Major Press. 

2006 - Dorenfeld is a main camera operator for Skatopia: 88 Acres of Anarchy where Dorenfeld was required to follow the most extreme of the extreme throughout the 72 hour skating extravaganza. Because as much as Dorenfeld was known for his work with a pen and a ball of clay, his ability to manually operate a camera and anticipate the un-anticipatable became another unique ability.

2007 - Serj Tankian (SOAD) has Dorenfeld direct and animate a Music Video to announce Serj Tankian's Solo Career.

Dorenfeld goes onto direct Zap Mama, Secret Chiefs 3, Norwood Fisher, George Clinton, and more.

2008 - Dorenfeld is awarded the KODAK Independent Soul Award for achievements in the Independent Film Field. Presented by Lloyd Kaufman (Troma) & Penelope Spheeris (Wayne's World, Suburbia).

2008- His follow up Feature “Aylaqruh hurqalyA,” became a cult classic in Stop-Motion Animation and music history as it was produced completely to a Secret Chiefs 3 Live Soundtrack. For those unaware, Secret Chiefs 3 is the brilliant, esoteric brainchild of Mr. Bungle's Trey Spruance, same guy who did the soundtrack to The Anna Cabrini Chronicles.

2009 - Renowned Beat Era Photographer Charles Brittin, impressed with The Anna Cabrini Chronicles, offers his home to Dorenfeld to craft any new Live Action project the two could conjure together. A project that would become a lasting piece of a living reminder of the late great Charles Brittin and the wonderous world he lived.

2015, Dorenfeld’s "Master of a Good Name: Stories of the Baal Shem Tov," is the first stop-motion feature about the iconic 17th Century Rabbi and mastermind behind Chassidic Judaism. Mayim Bialik and Roseanne Barr donate their time and talents to Tawd's vision and the fact that Tawd will nearly create this Stop-Motion animated film by himself with a crew of no more than six others, but mostly only himself. It has been released by Shoreline Entertainment and now re-released by Dorenfeld and Halevy themselves. Currently available on Amazon Prime. Due to the extreme nature of such a project Mr. Dorenfeld did suffer from tendentious of both arms and shoulders 7/8ths through with the entire animation. Thankfully Timothy Smyth was able to be Dorenfeld's hands for the remainder of the frames. It took years for Dorenfeld to heal. He still suffers from chronic pain and fibromyalgia from the injury. Where Dorenfeld's work has been effected the most is in the art of hand-drawn animation. Unfortunately it is that, that is the most strenuous on his hands and not Stop-Motion. Stop-Motion seems to be okay enough as long as he paces himself. . .which is always still too fast and too much compared to most. We warn him, his inner critics warn him. . .it is what it is. . .art.

Dorenfeld is consistently creating more work.

BEYOND HIMSELF -
​2018 - Dorenfeld founded TINK TANK a non-profit national center where Mentors produce Artists with Learning Disabilities including Autism, the Visually Impaired, the Hearing Impaired, ADHD, and more. (If you know of such an artist, please send them to www.TinkTankAnimate.com) This is not a side project like some non-profits are to filmmakers or celebrities. Dorenfeld spends approximately 2/3rds of his time in the TINK TANK.


SPECIAL NOTE* If you got this far, here is a little bit of historical TRUTH for you. Tawd b. Dorenfeld has been known for a few firsts, however there is only ONE popular culture first he had at once gotten credit for, and if you seek you will find the truth in Christian Slater's Biography by Nigel Goodall, but more recently has been forgotten, and that truth is, it was TAWD that put HEATHERS on the stage first and to a sold out theater in 1991, way before Broadway even considered it. Tawd was a Junior in high school at the time.

ABOUT
TZVI PECKAR the THIRD
Tzvi Peckar the Third is a native born Northern Californian who has rested his head in Manhattan, Los Angeles, and the San Francisco Bay Area, along with extended stints in Puerto Rico and abroad. An observer, a researcher, a wanderer, self-proclaimed scuttlebutt, and extreme culturalist, Peckar has spent his young adult life on the cutting edge of society, celebrating the best of its art, music, and film. His first published work was the psychedelically charged series “Tzvi’s Trees: Short Stories About Weed,” featured at SmokingCannabis.com, UK's premiere Cannabis Website. Along with being the twin brother of acclaimed writer/director Tawd b. Dorenfeld, Tzvi Peckar the Third has garnished his own identity amongst readers young and old in the psychedelic subculture. Tzvi lives in a state of bliss without borders.

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