Based in San Francisco and Los Angeles, The Orphanage went from a small visual effects company in a matter of 10 years with over 160 artists creating effects for more than two dozen major films like Ironman, Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer, Superman Returns, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, and more. Yesterday, Orphanage's Stu Maschwitz announced that the company will suspend operations indefinitely.

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.

He's right. They did.

Maschwitz goes on to say, "A message to the visual effects industry: You will never find a better employee than a former Orphan."