Eben Ostby

Eben Fiske Ostby (born February 24, 1955) is a pioneer computer graphics software developer, animator, and technical director for motion pictures. He was one of the four first employees of Pixar, where he worked with John Lasseter on early breakthrough Pixar animation shorts such as Luxo Jr., Reds Dream, Tin Toy, Knick Knack, and For the Birds.Ostby was born in Hampton, Connecticut, United States. He graduated from Pomfret School and Vassar College, where he was the colleges first computer science major, before starting to work at Pixar when it was still in its garage start-up days. Most recently, he served as Pixars 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, and has served as Computer Animation, Technical and Modeling Director on Cars 2005, A Bugs Life, Monsters, Inc., Toy Story, Toy Story 2, Young Sherlock Holmes, Crash Bandicoot and many other motion pictures.

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