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name: "Rob Dressel"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/rob-dressel"
roles: ["Cinematographer"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 5
average_fi1m_score: 70
updated: "2026-09-17T07:03:23.961927+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Rob Dressel

Cinematographer.

## Details

- **Work:** Cinematographer
- **Active:** 2010–present
- **Also known as:** Robert Dressel
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2010s 75 (4), 2020s 49 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q27916556, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0237560/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1615793

## Streaming the US now

- **Disney+:** [*Big Hero 6*](https://film.one/film/big-hero-6.md) (72)

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## Biography

Rob Dressel is a cinematographer and layout supervisor at Walt Disney Animation Studios. He has served as director of cinematography: layout on the features *Big Hero 6* (2014), *Moana* (2016) and *Raya and the Last Dragon* (2021), and has held layout supervisor or artist credits on *Wreck-It Ralph* (2012), *Tangled* (2010) and other studio productions.

Dressel began working in computer graphics in 1993 on commercials, then moved into visual effects at Dream Quest Images (later Disney’s The Secret Lab), contributing to live-action films including *Crimson Tide* (1995), *Armageddon* (1998) and *102 Dalmatians* (2000). He later supervised animation on *Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow* (2004) and worked in previs before joining Walt Disney Animation Studios in 2008 as layout supervisor on the short *Prep & Landing* (2009).

*Sources: imdb.com, fmx.de, m.the-numbers.com.*

## On Fi1m (5)

- *Wish* (2023), Fi1m 49, Other — [page](https://film.one/film/wish.md)
- *Moana* (2016), Fi1m 82, Layout — [page](https://film.one/film/moana.md)
- *Big Hero 6* (2014), Fi1m 72, Cinematography — [page](https://film.one/film/big-hero-6.md)
- *Wreck-It Ralph* (2012), Fi1m 70, Layout — [page](https://film.one/film/wreck-it-ralph.md)
- *Tangled* (2010), Fi1m 75, Layout — [page](https://film.one/film/tangled.md)

## Also known for

- *Raya and the Last Dragon* (2021), Director of Photography
- *Iwájú* (2024), Director of Photography
- *Gone Fishing* (2017), Director of Photography

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