Scott Stewart, Stuart Maschwitz, and Jonathan Rothbart departed ILM late last year to launch the Orphanage (www.theorphanage.com). Equipped with digital video cameras and Apple G4s, the trio has produced, directed, or created effects for five shorts on the film-fest circuit.
Though they're still paying the bills with f/x jobs likeMission to Mars, Brian De Palma's latest, their shorts work has also paid off - in January the team signed a $20 million deal with indie studio GreeneStreet Films to produce a dozen features. But don't expect a run of f/xtravaganzas: ThesePhantom Menace veterans are more John Cassavetes than James Cameron. "You could make the case that visual effects have destroyed Hollywood," says Stewart. "We are shooting for story."
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