Rob Renzetti

Robert "Rob" Renzetti (born 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 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.

Background

Renzetti was an art history major at the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana.^[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]

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.^[2]

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 2012, soon after the departure of the series showrunner, Lauren Faust, to work as the supervising producer on Disney's Gravity Falls.

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role
1991	Dudley's Classroom Adventure	animator
2002	Tom and Jerry: The Magic Ring	storyboard clean-up

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1993–1995	2 Stupid Dogs	writer storyboard artist director
1995–1996	Dumb and Dumber	storyboard artist
1996–2003	Dexter's Laboratory	director storyboard artist animation director
1998	Oh Yeah! Cartoons	producer	Episode: "The F-Tales"
	The Powerpuff Girls	writer storyboard artist director	Episode 3.7: Nano of the North Episode 3.8: Stray Bullet
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
	Samurai Jack	sheet timer director
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	Sym-Bionic Titan	sheet timer animation director
2010–2012	My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic	story editor
2012–2016	Gravity Falls	supervising producer

References

1. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiOZt9sOFO8&feature=related Rob Renzetti interview from Boing! Podcast Part 1 of 7 Retrieved April 21, 2010
2. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0B9vqu0zpwI&feature=related Rob Renzetti interview from Boing! Podcast Part 2 of 7 Retrieved April 21, 2010

External links

• Rob Renzetti at the Internet Movie Database
• The Teenage Roblog