Shortly after relocating to Boston, Steinsiek left Malevolence to relocate again, this time to Pittsburgh, in order to work under the "Master of Splatters," Tom Savini. Savini then offered him the opportunity to work on the horror film Zombie Honeymoon, which was filming in New York City. Steinsiek relocated to Brooklyn in 2002, where he started his own SFX makeup company, Ill Willed Productions. By 2003, Steinsiek had provided special effects prosthetic makeup and prop fabrication work for clients including The Jim Henson Company, DreamWorks, NBC, HBO, and Xbox. While in New York, Steinsiek met his wife Holly, who is also a makeup artist; the pair worked together on the History Channel production Clash of the Gods, in which they each had an acting cameo as well. In 2006, he was featured on the reality series Making It Big, where he won the FX Challenge. As of September 2013, Steinsiek is in pre-production of his directorial debut, which is an adaptation of the Clive Barker short story Son of Celluloid.