Name Rob Renzetti | Role Animator | |
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Education University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, California Institute of the Arts Awards Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Animated Program (for Programming One Hour or More) Nominations Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Short-format Animation Movies and TV shows My Life as a Teenage Robot, Mina and the Count, Escape from Cluster Pr, The Powerpuff Girls Rule!!!, Pucca Similar People Craig McCracken, Fred Seibert, Janice Kawaye, Chris Savino, Chad Doreck | ||
Episode 28 rob renzetti nick animation podcast
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.
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- Episode 28 rob renzetti nick animation podcast
- Cartoons vs cancer ep 4 the one with rob renzetti
- Early life
- Career
- References
Cartoons vs cancer ep 4 the one with rob renzetti
Early life
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.
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.
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.
