Beside his work on Deep Space Nine, Smith also worked as makeup artist on the fantasy movie Xanadu (1980), Roland Emmerich's science fiction blockbuster Independence Day (1996, along with Michael F. Blake, Hazel Catmull, Katalin Elek, Zoltan Elek, Norma Lee, Patricia Miller, Candace Neal, Toni-Ann Walker, and Joy Zapata), and the science fiction thriller Impostor (2001, along with Barry R. Koper, Steve LaPorte, Audrey L. Anzures, Bernard Eichholz, Leonard MacDonald, Todd Masters, and Dave Snyder).