Eben Ostby

Visual Effects

February 24, 1955

Hampton, Connecticut, USA

4 movies

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 s...

🎬 Eben Ostby's Filmography

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7.6

A look at the first years of Pixar Animation Studios - from the success of "Toy Story" and Pixar's promotion of talented people, to the building of its East Bay campus, the company's relationship with Disney, and its remarkable initial string of eight hits. The contributions of John Lasseter, Ed Catmull and Steve Jobs are profiled. The decline of two-dimensional animation is chronicled as three-dimensional animation rises. Hard work and creativity seem to share the screen in equal proportions.

The Pixar Story

2007

6.3

Documentary of the making of the groundbreaking Disney/Pixar animated hit movie.

The Making of Toy Story

1995

7.7

The story of Pixar's early short films illuminates not only the evolution of the company but also the early days of computer animation, when a small group of artists and scientists shared a single computer in a hallway, and struggled to create emotionally compelling short films.

The Pixar Shorts: A Short History

2007

7.2

Retrospective looking at the revolutionary computer-animated feature film Toy Story.

Toy Story at 20: To Infinity and Beyond

2015