About the artist

Steve Neill is an artist, visual effects creator, and filmmaker with over 40 years of experience in the film and television industry. In 1971 he interned at the American Zoetrope in San Francisco with Francis Ford Coppola and received much of his filmmaking education there. He moved to Hollywood to pursue his career in 1974. He has since worked on movies such as “Star Trek the Motion Picture,” “Ghost Busters,” “Fright Night” and more. He has appeared as a creature suit actor in many films, commercials and TV shows.

Today Steve and Mary a own and operate their artist studio in Ventura CA. There they make short films, and take on art and modeling projects for clients. They produce a line of collectable masks all sculpted and hand crafted by Steve.