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Vincent Niebla (born 1972; age ~52) is a visual effects artist specialized in sculpting who worked under Michael Westmore during the production of Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. He also worked on Star Trek: First Contact and Star Trek Nemesis. Niebla's main job was sculpting heads that would be used to make molds for the foam latex makeup appliances.

Niebla sculpted the fire sculptor's head for the Next Generation episode "Cost Of Living". For DS9, he sculpted the heads of both Tosk and Morn, his work on the latter earned him an Emmy Award in 1993 for the episode "Captive Pursuit" which he shared with Michael Westmore, Jill Rockow, Karen Westerfield, Gilbert A. Mosko, Dean Jones, Michael Key, and Craig Reardon.

For Star Trek: First Contact, Niebla painted Borg costumes, sculpted Borg arms, and co-sculpted the helmets of the space suits worn by the Enterprise-E crew for Todd Masters Effects. He also painted the Romulan senator's disintegrating heads seen in Star Trek: Nemesis for Steve Johnson's XFX. [1]

Beside his work on Star Trek, Niebla worked as sculptor and painter on Jennifer 8 (1992), Super Mario Bros. (1993), True Lies (1994), Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie (1995), Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls (1995), Theodore Rex (1995), Happy Gilmore (1996), The Arrival (1996), episodes of Dark Skies (1996) and Sabrina the Teenage Witch (1996), Bordello of Blood (1996), The 6th Man (1997), Deep Rising (1998), Fight Club (1999), Magnolia (1999), Charlie's Angels (2000), Rose Red (2002), Blade II (2002), and Dreamcatcher (2003).

More recently, Niebla worked as stereographer for Legend 3D on Shrek 2 (2004) and Shrek the Third (2007), Alice in Wonderland (2010), The Green Hornet (2011), Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (2011), Transformers: Dark of the Moon (2011), The Smurfs (2011), and Hugo (2011).

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