At any one time Neill’s company Millennium FX employs around fifteen to twenty five freelancers, whose skills range from sculpting and mould making, to painting and prosthetic application. While Neill knew from an early age what he wanted to do in life, many of these talented people came to their vocation a lot later. Generally speaking, the split is about 75/25 between the guys and girls who always wanted to do this for a living and the ones who came to it later, often in their mid to late twenties and often long after they had completed a degree in some subject completely unrelated.
The following pages offer some insight for beginners of all ages, into how the business works and how to start the journey which will prepare you for training such as on one of our 7 week courses, and ultimately for a career in screen prosthetics.
Just to illustrate that everyone has to start that journey somewhere, the pictures that accompany this whole section show some examples of Neill’s own very early work from way back when he was a teenager, teaching himself through books and experimenting with his own techniques in his parents’ back shed in Liverpool!
