Editing Rob Renzetti

{{short description|American animator}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=October 2012}}
{{Infobox person
| name        = Rob Renzetti
| image       =
| alt         =
| caption     =
| birth_name  = Robert John Renzetti
| birth_date  = {{Birth date and age|1967|09|12}}
| birth_place = [[Chicago]], [[Illinois]], U.S.
| known_for   = ''[[Mina and the Count]]<br>[[My Life as a Teenage Robot]]<br>The Horrible Bag of Terrible Things<br>Dexter's Laboratory''
| website     = {{URL|robrenzetti.com}}
| occupation  = {{hlist|Animator|screenwriter|director|storyboard artist|layout artist|author}}
| alma_mater  = [[California Institute of the Arts]]
| yearsactive = 1991–present
| spouse             = {{marriage|Tracy Royce|2000}}
}}
'''Robert John Renzetti''' is an American animator and 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]]'', the co-author of its spin-off ''[[Gravity Falls: Journal 3|Journal 3]]'', 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 released his first original novel, ''The Horrible Bag of Terrible Things''.

==Early life==
Renzetti, born in [[Chicago]] and raised in [[Addison, Illinois]], was an art history major at the [[University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign]].<ref>{{cite web|last1=Levy|first1=David|title=Animondays Interview: Rob Renzetti - Part I|url=http://animondays.blogspot.com/2011/09/animondays-interview-rob-renzetti-part.html|website=Animondays|date=September 23, 2011|access-date=March 11, 2017}}</ref><ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiOZt9sOFO8 ''Rob Renzetti interview from Boing! Podcast Part 1 of 7'' Retrieved April 21, 2010</ref> 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 both accepted into the [[California Institute of the Arts]], where they were roommates.<ref name = "
Part2">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0B9vqu0zpwI ''Rob Renzetti interview from Boing! Podcast Part 2 of 7'' Retrieved April 21, 2010</ref>

==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]]''.<ref name =Part2 />

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 the latter. 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, where he served 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.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Zahed |first1=Ramin |title=Making Disney Channel's 'Big City Greens' |url=https://www.animationmagazine.net/tv/making-disney-channels-big-city-greens/ |website=Animation Magazine |date=14 June 2018}}</ref> In 2021, he served as executive producer and co-writer on [[Craig McCracken]]'s ''[[Kid Cosmic]]'' for [[Netflix]].

Renzetti has (co-)written four books based on various [[Disney]] properties, including ''Dipper's and Mabel's Guide to Mystery and Nonstop Fun!'', the [[New York Times]] Bestseller ''[[Gravity Falls: Journal 3]]'', ''[[DuckTales_(2017_TV_series)#Prose_books|DuckTales: Solving Mysteries and Rewriting History]]'', and ''[[Onward_(2020_film)|Onward: Quests Of Yore]]''. His first original novel, ''The Horrible Bag of Terrible Things'', was released in July 2023. A new installment in ''The Horrible Series'', ''The Twisted Tower of Endless Torment'', is set to release in July 2024, with the third novel potentially already being in the works.<ref>{{cite web |title=The Horrible Bag of Terrible Things |url=https://robrenzetti.com/writing/the-horrible-bag-of-terrible-things/ |website=Rob Renzetti |access-date=6 February 2024}}</ref>

==Works==
===Film===
{| class="wikitable"
|- style="background:#b0c4de; text-align:center;"
! Year
! Title
! Role
|-
| 1991
| ''Dudley's Classroom Adventure''
| animator
|-
|2024
|''[[Big City Greens the Movie: Spacecation]]''
|timing director
|-
|}

===Television===
{| class="wikitable"
|- style="background:#b0c4de; text-align:center;"
! Year
! Title
! Role
! Notes
|-
| 1993–1995
| ''[[2 Stupid Dogs]]''
| writer<br/>storyboard artist<br/>director
|
|-
| 1995
| ''[[Dumb and Dumber (TV series)|Dumb and Dumber]]''
| storyboard artist
|
|-
| 1995–1997
| ''[[Dexter's Laboratory]]''
| director<br/>storyboard artist<br/>animation director
|
|-
| 1995
| ''[[Mina and the Count]]''
| creator<br/>writer<br/>producer<br/>director
| 
|-
| rowspan="2" | 1998
| ''[[Oh Yeah! Cartoons]]''
| producer
| Episode: "The F-Tales"
|-
| ''[[The Powerpuff Girls]]''
| writer<br/>storyboard artist<br/>director
|Episode 4.7: Nano of the North<br/>Episode 4.8: Stray Bullet
|-
| 2000
| ''[[Family Guy]]''
| director
| Episode 2.18: "E. Peterbus Unum"<br/>Episode 3.6: "Death Lives"
|-
| 2001
| ''[[Time Squad]]''
| storyboard artist
| Episode 1.5a: "Dishonest Abe"<br/>Episode 1.12b: "Where the Buffalo Bill Roams"
|-
| 2001–2002
| ''[[House of Mouse]]''
| storyboard artist<br/>timing director
|
|-
| 2001–2002, 2017
| ''[[Samurai Jack]]''
| sheet timer<br/>director
|
|-
| 2002
| ''[[Whatever Happened to... Robot Jones?]]''
| supervising producer<br>director
|
|-
| 2003–2009
| ''[[My Life as a Teenage Robot]]''
| creator<br>developer<br>writer<br>executive producer<br>director<br>storyboard artist
|
|-
| 2006–2009
| ''[[Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends]]''
| post supervising director<br>story<br>writer<br>storyboard artist<br>director
|
|-
| 2009
| ''[[Random! Cartoons]]''
| sheet timer<br/>director
| Episode: "6 Monsters"
|-
| 2010-2013
| ''[[Adventure Time]]''
| sheet timer 
| 
|-
| 2010–2011
| ''[[Sym-Bionic Titan]]''
|sheet timer<br/>animation director
|
|-
| 2010–2011
| ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic]]''
| story editor
| Seasons 1 and 2
|-
| 2012–2016
| ''[[Gravity Falls]]''
| supervising producer<br/>director<br/>story editor (season 1) 
| Episode 2.1: "Scary-Oke" 
|-
|2018–2019
|''[[Big City Greens]]''
|executive producer
|
|-
|2021–2022
|''[[Kid Cosmic]]''
|writer<br />director<br/>co-executive producer
|
|}

===Internet===
{| class="wikitable"
|- style="background:#b0c4de; text-align:center;"
! Year
! Title
! Role
! Notes
|-
|2015
| Cartoons VS Cancer
| rowspan="3"|Himself
| rowspan="3"|Podcast
|-
|2016
| [[Nickelodeon Animation Podcast]]
|-
|2022
| Mystery Shack Lookback
|}

==Bibliography==
{| class="wikitable"
|- style="background:#b0c4de; text-align:center;"
|-
! Year
! Title
! Publisher
! ISBN
! Notes
|-
| 2014
| ''[[Gravity Falls#Books|Gravity Falls: Dipper and Mabel's Guide to Mystery and Nonstop Fun!]]''
| rowspan="4" |[[Disney Press]]
| {{ISBN|978-1484710807}}
| Co-written with Shane Houghton
|-
| 2016
| ''[[Gravity Falls: Journal 3]]''
| {{ISBN|978-1484746691}}
| Co-written with [[Alex Hirsch]]
|-
| 2018
| ''[[DuckTales (2017 TV series)#Prose books|DuckTales: Solving Mysteries and Rewriting History]]''
| {{ISBN|978-1368008419}}
| Co-written with Rachel Vine
|-
| 2020
| ''[[Onward (film)|Onward: Quests of Yore]]''
| {{ISBN|978-1368052092}}
|
|-
| 2023
| ''The Horrible Bag of Terrible Things''
| rowspan="2"| [[Penguin Workshop]]
| {{ISBN|978-0593519523}}
|
|-
| 2024
| ''The Twisted Tower of Endless Torment''
| {{ISBN|978-0593519554}}
|
|}

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
* {{IMDb name|0719952}}
* [http://teenageroblog.blogspot.com/ The Teenage Roblog]

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