After ten years of operation,The Orphange, a Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Vancouver based VFX production company, has closed it's doors, according to a recent blog post by Stu Maschwitz.

The Orphanage Group has most likely felt the recent ripple effect of an unstable world economy. VFX shops like these are extremely susceptible during bad economic times due to the nature of contract work that comes and goes in seasons. Unfortunatley, when a big long ressesive economic winter hits, it's a challenge to keep talented people on the payroll.

Today I had the heart-wrenching task of joining my co-founders Scott Stewart and Jonathan Rothbart in announcing that The Orphanage will be suspending operations indefinitely. We started the company ten years ago, tripled in size each year for our first three years, and worked on some of the biggest and best effects movies made. We produced shorts and even features, we spawned a commercial division and an animation company, and we hung out in the halls with Frank Miller, Ethan Hawke, and M.C. Hammer. We did DI before it was called DI, we gave birth to Magic Bullet, and we did really, really good work. --- Stu Maschwitz -- Read full blog post

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