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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