Rob Renzetti

Rob Renzetti
Born (1967-09-12) September 12, 1967
Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Residence Los Angeles, California
Alma mater California Institute of the Arts
Occupation Writer, director, storyboard artist, layout artist, animator
Years active 1992–present
Known for Dexter's Laboratory
The Powerpuff Girls
Samurai Jack
My Life as a Teenage Robot
Gravity Falls
Mina and the Count
DuckTales

Robert Renzetti (born September 12, 1967) is an American animator and director who created the animated television series My Life as a Teenage Robot for Nickelodeon, and directed Dexter's Laboratory, The Powerpuff Girls, and Samurai Jack for Cartoon Network. He has also served as story editor for the first two seasons of My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic, and was supervising producer on the Disney Channel animated series Gravity Falls.

Early life

Renzetti, raised in Addison, Illinois, was an art history major at the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana.[1][2] 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.[3]

Career

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.[3]

Renzetti has been writer, director, and storyboard artist for several Cartoon Network shows, including 2 Stupid Dogs, Dexter's Laboratory, The Powerpuff Girls, Samurai Jack, and Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends. During the mid-1990s, he created Mina and the Count, a series of animated shorts that premiered on the What-a-Cartoon show then later aired for a short time on the similar 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.

He was story editor on My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic for the series' first two seasons, but left in 2011, soon after the departure of the series showrunner, Lauren Faust, to work as the supervising producer on Disney's Gravity Falls. He is now working on Disney's Big City Greens as Executive Producer and writing an upcoming book for the DuckTales reboot.

Filmography

Film

Year Title Role
1991 Dudley's Classroom Adventure animator

Television

Year Title Role Notes
1992–1995 2 Stupid Dogs writer
storyboard artist
director
1994 Dumb and Dumber storyboard artist
1995– 1997 Dexter's Laboratory director
storyboard artist
animation director
1995 Mina and the Count creator
writer
producer
director
1998 Oh Yeah! Cartoons producer Episode: "The F-Tales"
The Powerpuff Girls writer
storyboard artist
director
Episode 4.7: Nano of the North
Episode 4.8: Stray Bullet
2000–2001 Family Guy director Episode 2.18: "E. Peterbus Unum"
Episode 3.6: "Death Lives"
2001 Time Squad storyboard artist Episode 1.5a: "Dishonest Abe"
2001–2002 House of Mouse storyboard artist
timing director
2001–2002, 2017 Samurai Jack sheet timer
director
2002 Whatever Happened to Robot Jones? supervising producer
director
2003–2009 My Life as a Teenage Robot creator
developer
writer
executive producer
director
storybord artist
2006–2009 Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends post supervising director
story
writer
storyboard artist
director
2009 Random! Cartoons sheet timer Episode: "6 Monsters"
2010 Adventure Time sheet timer (uncredited) Episode 1.3: "The Enchridion/The Jiggler"
2010–2011 Sym-Bionic Titan sheet timer
animation director
2010–2011 My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic story editor
2012–2016 Gravity Falls supervising producer and director Episode 2.1: "Scary-Oke"
2017 DuckTales (2017 TV series) executive producer
2018 Big City Greens executive producer and story editor

Internet

Year Title Role Notes
2015 Cartoons VS Cancer Himself Podcast
2016 Nickelodeon Animation Podcast

References

  1. Levy, David (September 23, 2011). "Animondays Interview: Rob Renzetti - Part I". Animondays. Retrieved March 11, 2017.
  2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiOZt9sOFO8&feature=related Rob Renzetti interview from Boing! Podcast Part 1 of 7 Retrieved April 21, 2010
  3. 1 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0B9vqu0zpwI&feature=related Rob Renzetti interview from Boing! Podcast Part 2 of 7 Retrieved April 21, 2010


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