After years as a motivator in the Vancouver film scene, including establishing the Make-up Department of I.A.T.S.E. Local 891, Todd decided to try his hand at the centre of the film business - Hollywood - and moved to Los Angeles in 1990. To date, his outstanding credentials include Billy Crystal's Mr. Saturday Night, City Slickers 1 and II, Robin Hood: Men In Tights, The Brady Bunch Movie and Brady Bunch II (both with Shelley Long and RuPaul). In 1993, he returned to Vancouver to work on Hideaway with Jeff Goldblum. He designed the make-up and headed the department for Mel Brooks' Dracula: Dead and Loving It.

TV credits have included special make-ups on the first season of Seaquest DSV and helming the series Sessions for HBO. He has worked on series such as Who's The Boss, Get A Life and many others. In 1995, Todd was part of the Emmy nominated make-up team for the TV movie, Buffalo Girls. The most recent addition to his TV credits is the mega-hit series Buffy The Vampire Slayer. To date, Todd and his team have received three Emmy nominations for their amazing work on this series. And on Saturday August 29 1999, Todd made his first acceptance speech at the Technical Emmy Awards in Los Angeles.

As Director of the Blanche Macdonald Make-up Department, Todd oversees the various levels of the course on a consulting basis and is continuously involved in writing and upgrading the programs. When in Vancouver, he teaches specialty classes and monitors the curriculum. He believes that the art of make-up is very complex. A make-up artist must be a technician, a politician, an artist and a psychiatrist‚ part chemist‚ part administrator. It is really a career that requires skills from all areas of life.