Before becoming a stop-motion filmmaker, Steve Weintz worked in a number of fields, including firefighting, computer consulting, medical delivery, Internet start-ups, graphic design and field archaeology. His eclectic background and Hollywood roots have prepared him well to explore the wonderful arcana of movie magic and magicians, in the service of “Famous Monsters”…
As a native of Los Angeles, Steve grew up around the motion picture industry; his mother and stepfather had 40+ year careers in costume, stuntwork and directing. After his own stint in Hollywood he returned to college and studied journalism, broadcasting and anthropology before graduating from San Francisco State in 1991. He entered a Ph.D program at the University of Illinois and concentrated on South American archaeology. After leaving grad school in 1994, he joined several friends, as Art Director and HTML coder, to launch the first humor magazine ever published on the World Wide Web. MELVIN Magazine debuted in December 1994 and ran through 11 issues before the uncertainties of the Web publishing market led to its demise. In 1996, after working at the Beckman Institute’s Visualization Lab, Steve took a position at Integrity Solutions of Eagan, Minnesota, as their Graphic Designer.
Steve was active in the Apple developer community for some time. He was an invited speaker at MACWORLD Pro in San Francisco in January 1998 and a Certified Apple Consultant from 2004 to 2006. His freelance career during those years rode the ups and downs of the dot-com boom and bust. Steve moved to the rugged Big Sur country in 2003 to work at freelance web design and computer consulting; after helping to fight the great fires of 2008 he discovered the art form of stop-motion animation and embraced the tangible crafts. The demo trailer for his stop-motion adventure series, The Lost Hieroglyph, was favorably received at San Diego Comic-Con 2009.
Steve Weintz - animator, adventurer, all-around great guy
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