Rob Renzetti
| Rob Renzetti | |
|---|---|
| Born |
September 12, 1967 Chicago, Illinois, United States |
| Residence | Los Angeles, CA |
| 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 My Life as a Teenage Robot Gravity Falls Mina and the Count |
Robert "Rob" 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.
Renzetti, raised in Addison, Illinois, was an art history major at the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana. 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.
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.
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.
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