Known For
Visual Effects
Born
Feb 24, 1955
Place of Birth
Hampton, Connecticut, USA
Credits
15 titles
Eben Ostby
Biography
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
Filmography
Toy Story at 20: To Infinity and Beyond
Self
The Pixar Shorts: A Short History
The Pixar Story
Self (archive footage)
Cars
Supervising Technical Director
Monsters, Inc.
Character Modelling Supervisor
Toy Story 2
Character Modelling Supervisor
A Bug's Life
Supervising Technical Director
The Making of Toy Story
Self
Toy Story
Visual Effects Technical Director
Knick Knack
Animation
Red's Dream
Technical Supervisor
Beach Chair
Animation
Luxo Jr.
Visual Effects
Young Sherlock Holmes
Animation
The Adventures of André and Wally B.
3D Animator