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 startup 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 Reds 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 3D Computer Animation System He 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 and many other motion pictures Description above from the Wikipedia article Eben Ostby licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia