Eben Fiske Ostby (born February 24, 1955) is a pioneer computer graphics software developer, animator, and technical director for motion pictures.
He graduated from Pomfret School and Vassar College, where he was its "first computer science major".
[1] 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.
[2] There, he worked on early breakthrough animation shorts such as Luxo Jr.,[3] Red's Dream, Tin Toy, Knick Knack, and For the Birds.
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.