Director

Eben Ostby

Visual Effects

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Directed movies: 3Directed series: 0All crew credits: 11

TMDB ID: 7897

IMDb ID: nm0652296

Known for: Visual Effects

Born: February 24, 1955

Age: 70

Place of birth: Hampton, Connecticut, USA

Gender: Male

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 1984 - 2015

Years active: 32

Average TMDB rating: 7.06

Wikidata: Q5331600

Also known as

Eben Fiske Ostby

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Supervising Technical Director (2)Visual Effects Technical Director (1)Animation (4)Character Modelling Supervisor (2)3D Animator (1)Visual Effects (1)

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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.

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