A new kind of VFX collective emerges with Dream Machine FX

February 26, 2024

How it works, why they formed together, and coming up with the name.

This week on the befores & afters podcast, we’re talking about Dream Machine FX. You may not have heard this name, but this is now the platform company behind Fin Design + Effects, Mavericks VFX and ZERO VFX. I talk to the managing partners of Dream Machine: Brendan Taylor from Mavericks, Brian Drewes from Zero and Chris Spry from Fin.

I felt like this was a rather unique style of VFX deal, in that each of those studios are retaining their own brand identity, but then coming together under the company Dream Machine. I wanted to ask them, how did that happen, how does it work, what the benefits are for each studio, and how they came up with that name: Dream Machine.

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