Rob Renzetti

Robert John "Rob" Renzetti (born September 12, 1967) is an American animator and director. Renzetti is known for creating My Life as a Teenage Robot and the Oh Yeah! Cartoons series Mina and the Count for Nickelodeon, directing Dexter's Laboratory, The Powerpuff Girls, and Samurai Jack for Cartoon Network and serving as the story editor for the first two seasons of My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic. He was also the supervising producer on the Disney Channel animated television series Gravity Falls and is currently an executive producer on Big City Greens.

Rob Renzetti
Born	(1967-09-12) September 12, 1967 Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Alma mater	California Institute of the Arts
Occupation	Writer, director, storyboard artist, layout artist, animator
Years active	1991–present
Known for	Dexter's Laboratory The Powerpuff Girls Samurai Jack My Life as a Teenage Robot Gravity Falls Mina and the Count Big City Greens

Early life

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

Renzetti has directed on the DuckTales reboot.[4]

He is now working on Disney's Big City Greens as its executive producer.[5]

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role
1991	Dudley's Classroom Adventure	animator

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1993–1995	2 Stupid Dogs	writer storyboard artist director
1995	Dumb and Dumber (TV series)	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" Episode 1.12b: "Where the Buffalo Bill Roams"
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 director	Episode 2.1: "Scary-Oke"
2018-present	Big City Greens	executive producer

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 Rob Renzetti interview from Boing! Podcast Part 1 of 7 Retrieved April 21, 2010
3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0B9vqu0zpwI Rob Renzetti interview from Boing! Podcast Part 2 of 7 Retrieved April 21, 2010
4. Maher, John (May 22, 2018). "Outrage over Cartoon Network's Thundercats reboot resorted to a strange, old insult: 'CalArts style'". Polygon.
5. Zahed, Ramin (June 14, 2018). "Making Disney Channel's 'Big City Greens'". Animation Magazine.

External links

• Rob Renzetti on IMDb
• The Teenage Roblog