GridIron’s background is in motion graphics and visual FX.  We shipped 2 really successful products for After Effects users called Nucleo and Nucleo Pro (1 & 2).  NP did better for us as a vendor than we ever expected.

I want to pay credit where credit is due.  If you use NP background rendering - Thank Stu.  If you use NP speculative preview - Thank Stu.  If you use NP precomp proxies - Thank Stu.

Stu Maschwitz and The Orphanage were the first to ever say to us…”I have an idea”. They are masters of their craft - and helped us design technology that wound up being used by a whole lot more people as a result.

Yesterday - the Orphanage closed its doors.  It is a sad day across all of VFX.  Read here for details.

I join Michael Coleman - product manager for Adobe After Effects in wishing the best to Stu and all Orphans. I am very confident this is not the last you will be hearing from them.

S.

Tags: After Effects, Orphanage, Stu Maschwitz