Eben Ostby

Eben Ostby

Eben Fiske Ostby (born February 24, 1955) is a pioneer computer graphics software developer, animator, and technical director for motion pictures. Ostby was born in Hampton, Connecticut, United States. He graduated from Pomfret School and Vassar College, where he was its "first computer science major". He joined Pixar when the company was a garage start-up, as one of the first four employees of its animation department along with John Lasseter. There, he worked on early breakthrough animation shorts such as Luxo Jr., Red's Dream, Tin Toy, Knick Knack, and For the Birds. He became Vice President for Software. In 1998, he shared the Academy Award, Scientific and Engineering with three other people for the development of the Marionette 3-D Computer Animation System. He has served as Computer Animation, Technical and Modeling Director on Cars 2005, A Bug's Life, Monsters, Inc., Toy Story, Toy Story 2, Young Sherlock Holmes and many other motion pictures. Description above from the Wikipedia article Eben Ostby, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
    Known for
    Visual Effects
    Place of birth
    Hampton, Connecticut, USA
    Birthday
    24 February 1955
The Pixar Story
The Pixar Story
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The Pixar Shorts: A Short History
The Pixar Shorts: A Short History
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Making 'Toy Story'
Making 'Toy Story'
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Toy Story at 20: To Infinity and Beyond
Toy Story at 20: To Infinity and Beyond
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