The Orphange is no more!
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- mattiaBK
"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."
- harlequino0
Yeah read about this last week. Major suckage. They fuckin rocked, with Iron Man and all kinds of shit. Bad sign when one of the real heavy vfx companies closes down.
- dskz0
Thta must be a tough one to swallow. Why did they stop getting work? Where can I see their latest work?
- dskz0
If they did Iron Man...why cant tthey get more work? Makes no sense. They must have been running the buisiness inefficiently.
- harlequino0
Could be some inefficient business practices, defintely, who knows. But it could also be where budgets are being directed in Hollywood right now. Seems there were some big blockbuster spectacles int eh past couple years that didn't exactly bring in returns, despite the success of IronMan, Batman, Hulk, etc.
- stewdio0
"I know that I'm a sinner
but I really need a winner
or the Orphanage will cloooooose.
So God if you're above!
and it's orphans that you love!
then help the porcupine I chooooose."- @ 1:32. Courtesy of The State; (MTV in the early 90's.)stewdio
- +100 for The Stateharlequino
- mattiaBK0
It doesn't make sense for sure!
- harlequino0
Maybe feature films and entertainment weren't their bread and butter, could have been commercials. The way brands are slashing budgets it wouldn't surprise me. Say if your average post fx gig is 100k on a commercial, and suddenly 4 jobs you would have had in a couple months vanish, that pretty much seals it up for many businesses.
- Kidneon0
sad to see such an awesome company go, I had many friends go threw those doors and say how cool everyone there was. Maybe on a brighter note I believe just the VFX side went not the commercial and animation side.
- SillyBilly0
They lived up to their name!
- tank020
This will be first of many who work for commercials