Robert John "Rob" Renzetti (born September 12, 1967) is the supervising producer and story editor of Gravity Falls. He also started directing for the show in the second season. Renzetti is best known as the creator of the Nickelodeon animated series, My Life as a Teenage Robot. He also worked on My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic.
Directing credits[]
Season 2
- 201. "Scary-oke"
Background[]
Renzetti 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 a writer, director, and storyboard artist for several Cartoon Network shows, including Dexter's Laboratory, The Powerpuff Girls, Samurai Jack, Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends and 2 Stupid Dogs. 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 1998, Renzetti produced the short My Neighbor Was a Teenage Robot for Oh Yeah! Cartoons as a potential pilot for a full series. The pilot aired on December 4, 1999 and was successful enough for Nickelodeon to approve a full series: My Life as a Teenage Robot, which premiered on October 18, 2002 in Australia and the following August in the United States. The series ran for three seasons and ended in 2006.
In April 2008, he started work on Cartoon Network's "Cartoonstitute" project as a supervising producer. He was story editor on My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic for the series' first two seasons, but then left in 2012, soon after the departure of the series showrunner, Lauren Faust, to work as the supervising producer on Disney's Gravity Falls.
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Trivia[]
On the right next to Alex.
- In the episode, "Roadside Attraction," Rob, along with Alex Hirsch, make a cameo appearance as passengers in the "Trambience" attraction.
- Renzetti revealed in the audio commentary for "The Stanchurian Candidate" that he was almost the voice actor for Ford Pines.