Robert "Rob" Renzetti is an American animator and director who created the animated television series My Life as a Teenage Robot and is currently story editor on the animated television series My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic.
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Renzetti was an art history major at the University of Illinois at Chicago.[1] After graduating from Illinois, Renzetti attended the animation program at Columbia College Chicago for one year, where he was a classmate of Genndy Tartakovsky. Renzetti and Tartakovsky were then each accepted into the California Institute of the Arts, where they were roommates.[2]
After graduating from the California Institute of the Arts, Renzetti began his animating career in Spain, working on 5 episodes for Batman: The Animated Series.[2]
Renzetti has been writer, director, and storyboard artist for several Cartoon Network shows, including Dexter's Laboratory, The Powerpuff Girls, Samurai Jack, Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends and 2 Stupid Dogs. During the mid-1990s, he created Mina and the Count, a series of animated shorts that aired for a short time on the anthology series Oh Yeah! Cartoons. In 1999, he made the short My Neighbor Was a Teenage Robot, which also debuted on Oh Yeah! Cartoons; in 2003, My Life as a Teenage Robot, based on the short, debuted on Nickelodeon. In April 2008, he started work on Cartoon Network's "Cartoonstitute" project as supervising producer.
His most recent role was story editor on My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, which he held for the first season. He left the position in 2011, soon after the departure of the series showrunner, Lauren Faust.
| Year | Title | Role |
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| 1991 | Dudley's Classroom Adventure | animator |
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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| 1993-1995 | 2 Stupid Dogs | writer storyboard artist |
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| 1995-1996 | Dumb and Dumber | storyboard artist | |
| 1996-1997 | Dexter's Laboratory | director storyboard artist animation director |
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| 1998 | Oh Yeah! Cartoons | producer | Episode: "The F-Tales" |
| The Powerpuff Girls | writer storyboard artist |
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| 2000-2001 | Family Guy | director | Episode 2.18: "E. Peterbus Unum" Episode 3.6: "Death Lives" |
| 2000 | Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law | director | |
| 2001-2002 | House of Mouse | storyboard artist timing director |
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| Samurai Jack | sheet timer | ||
| 2002 | Whatever Happened to Robot Jones? | supervising producer | |
| 2003-2009 | My Life as a Teenage Robot | creator | |
| 2007-2008 | Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends | post supervising director | |
| 2009 | Random! Cartoons | sheet timer | Episode: "6 Monsters" |
| 2010 | Adventure Time | sheet timer | Episode 1.3: "The Enchridion/The Jiggler" |
| 2010-2011 | My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic | story editor |