Eben Ostby
Born: 1955-02-24 in Hampton, Connecticut, USA
Known For: Visual Effects
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.
Filmography
2015
2007
- The Pixar Story as Self (archive footage)
- The Pixar Shorts: A Short History
2006
- Cars ... (Supervising Technical Director)
2001
- Monsters, Inc. ... (Character Modelling Supervisor)
1999
- Toy Story 2 ... (Character Modelling Supervisor)
1998
- A Bug's Life ... (Supervising Technical Director)
1995
- Toy Story ... (Visual Effects Technical Director)
- Making 'Toy Story' as Self
1989
- Knick Knack ... (Animation)
1987
- Red's Dream ... (Technical Supervisor)
1986
- Luxo Jr. ... (Visual Effects)
- Beach Chair ... (Animation)
1985
- Young Sherlock Holmes ... (Animation)
1984
- The Adventures of André and Wally B. ... (3D Animator)