About Mike
Mike Butkus is an internationally award-winning conceptual artist for the movie and gaming industry with over 30 years of experience. Known in the business as a consummate professional, his creativity and restless imagination has been sought after by clients from all over the world. Mike began his artistic journey at a young age, putting pencil to paper of scenes from his favorite novels, taking on commissions from classmates to pay for his first bike and volunteering his time painting the high school mural. But It never occurred to him that art would eventually be his lifelong career. In college, Mike initially majored in biochemistry, taking odd jobs as a waiter, personal trainer, karate instructor and bank teller to pay for bills but the artistic bones in his body just wouldn't stop rattling. He decided to make his move and give Otis College of Art and Design a try then later transferring to Art Center in Pasadena but as luck would have it, Mike was offered a full-time position as an illustrator at a major movie agency just before graduating. Being the stereotypical starving art student living off of beer and ramen, he quickly accepted. After a couple of years with the agency, his restless nature was too much to ignore. He decided to set off on his own as a freelance artist, allowing himself the freedom to establish his own hours, travel and to later, spend more time with his amazing family. Mike has never looked back since. With more than 7000 movies, tv, gaming, books and toy-design projects under his belt- if you've seen it, he's probably worked on it. Clients: Netflix, Amazon, Apple TV, Hulu, Prime Video, HBO Max, Peacock, Discovery Channel, Sling, FX, History channel, Warner Bros. Gaming and Theatrical, Pixar, Paramount, Dreamworks, Disney theatrical, gaming and restaurant design, Sony Gaming and Theatrical, Fox Studios and Interactive, Lucas Film, MGM, HBO, NBC, CBS, NT, Trailer Park, Universal, The Refinery, Gravillis Inc., Ayzenberg Group, Buster Design, MEG Toys, Lanard Toys Vox, Bulldog, BLT, 71 Design, 360 design, Bemis & Balkind, Art Attack, Cimmeron, Concept Art, Tristar, Anarchy, Cartoon Network, DC comics, Dino DeLaurentis, Eclipse advertising, Ignition advertising, Film Roman, World comics, Lego, Marvel, MTV, Miramax Films, New Line Cinema, Nickelodeon, Sony Movies, The Refinery, THQ, Touchstone Pictures, Level 7 Ent, Upperdeck Entertainment, United Artists, Variety magazine, Bond Entertainment, Sole Creative and more. Some Recent Projects: Superman the movie, GOT's, Boarderlands, Grey Man, Silo, Wispers, Star Wars, Xbox, Wonder, Starfield, NBA Today, Outer Limits, Florida Man, Outer Banks, Oh My, Ready Player One, The Last of Us, Bird, The Killers, The Buccaneers, Umbrella Academy, Gemini, Dune the series, Dune theatrical, Crow, Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes, Playing Gracie, The Wave, Stranges, Star Wars Tokyo Disney, Fast and Furious, Pirates of the, Tonight Show, NBA series, Dragons, Legos, Spa, Exodus, Dirty Secrets, New Percy Jones, Wicked, Millions, Succession, Hour Glass, and more.