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He was most recently co-executive producer on ''[[Kid Cosmic]]'' for [[Netflix]]. |
He was most recently co-executive producer on ''[[Kid Cosmic]]'' for [[Netflix]]. |
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Renzetti has also written four books for Disney Publishing including ''Dipper's and Mabel's Guide to Mystery and Nonstop Fun!'', ''Gravity Falls: Journal 3'', ''Ducktales: Solving Mysteries and Rewriting History'', and ''Quests Of Yore''. |
Renzetti has also written four books for Disney Publishing including ''Dipper's and Mabel's Guide to Mystery and Nonstop Fun!'', the New York Times Bestseller''Gravity Falls: Journal 3'', ''Ducktales: Solving Mysteries and Rewriting History'', and ''Quests Of Yore''. |
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He is currently writing his first original novel entitled ''The Horrible Bag of Terrible Things'' which will be the first book in a trilogy to be published starting in 2023. |
He is currently writing his first original novel entitled ''The Horrible Bag of Terrible Things'' which will be the first book in a trilogy to be published starting in 2023. |
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Rob Renzetti | |
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Born | Robert John Renzetti |
Alma mater | California Institute of the Arts |
Occupation(s) | Writer, director, storyboard artist, layout artist, animator |
Years active | 1991–present |
Known for | My Life as a Teenage Robot |
Robert John Renzetti is an Emmy Award winning animator and New York Times Bestselling author. 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 animation director of Sym-Bionic Titan. He was also the supervising producer on the Disney Channel animated television series Gravity Falls and an executive producer on Big City Greens. He most recently served as story editor and co-executive producer on Kid Cosmic for Netflix and is currently writing his first original novel entitled The Horrible Bag of Terrible Things to be published by Penguin Workshop, an imprint of Penguin Random House.
Early life
Renzetti, born in Chicago and 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. He won an Emmy award in 2009 for his work on Foster's. 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. He subsequently worked on Disney's Big City Greens as one of its executive producers.[4]
He was most recently co-executive producer on Kid Cosmic for Netflix.
Renzetti has also written four books for Disney Publishing including Dipper's and Mabel's Guide to Mystery and Nonstop Fun!, the New York Times BestsellerGravity Falls: Journal 3, Ducktales: Solving Mysteries and Rewriting History, and Quests Of Yore.
He is currently writing his first original novel entitled The Horrible Bag of Terrible Things which will be the first book in a trilogy to be published starting in 2023.
Filmography
Film
Year | Title | Role |
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1991 | Dudley's Classroom Adventure | animator |
Television
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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1993–1995 | 2 Stupid Dogs | writer storyboard artist director |
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1995 | Dumb and Dumber | storyboard artist | |
1995–1997 | Dexter's Laboratory | director storyboard artist animation director |
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1995 | Mina and the Count | creator writer producer director |
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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 |
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2001–2002, 2017 | Samurai Jack | sheet timer director |
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2002 | Whatever Happened to Robot Jones? | supervising producer director |
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2003–2009 | My Life as a Teenage Robot | creator developer writer executive producer director storyboard artist |
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2006–2009 | Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends | post supervising director story writer storyboard artist director |
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2009 | Random! Cartoons | sheet timer director |
Episode: "6 Monsters" |
2010-2013 | Adventure Time | sheet timer | |
2010–2011 | Sym-Bionic Titan | sheet timer animation director |
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2010–2011 | My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic | story editor | |
2012–2016 | Gravity Falls | supervising producer director story editor (season 1) |
Episode 2.1: "Scary-Oke" |
2018–2019 | Big City Greens | executive producer | |
2021–present | Kid Cosmic | writer director executive producer |
Internet
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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2015 | Cartoons VS Cancer | Himself | Podcast |
2016 | Nickelodeon Animation Podcast |
References
- ^ Levy, David (September 23, 2011). "Animondays Interview: Rob Renzetti - Part I". Animondays. Retrieved March 11, 2017.
- ^ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiOZt9sOFO8 Rob Renzetti interview from Boing! Podcast Part 1 of 7 Retrieved April 21, 2010
- ^ a b https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0B9vqu0zpwI Rob Renzetti interview from Boing! Podcast Part 2 of 7 Retrieved April 21, 2010
- ^ Zahed, Ramin (June 14, 2018). "Making Disney Channel's 'Big City Greens'". Animation Magazine.
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