Mike Spring

Instructor / Digital Artist

LA Film School Instructor (Digital Painting & Environment Design), Visual Developer, Compositor, Graphic Designer, Illustrator, and Game Developer

Experience includes work with Disney Imagineering, Reality Check Studios, Duck Studios, Outpost Digital, Seiniger Advertising, Blissium, Entity FX, World of Tomorrow, CW, Zoic Studios, Fenix Collective, Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN), 2000 Strong, Playground Media, ShutterPunch, Universal Studios: Defiance (SyFy)

Student Sample Work - Environment Design

Student Sample Work - Alien Bust Digital Painting (Adobe Substance Painter/Adobe Photoshop)

Student Sample Work - Robot Scene and Weapon Digital Painting (Adobe Substance Painter/Adobe Photoshop)

Photo Bash - self portraits

Mech Comps

Mike Spring | Time Lapse Sketches

Mike Spring | Animation Sketches

Mike Spring | Digital Paintings 1

  • Badlands (detail)
    Badlands (detail)
  • Badlands
    Badlands
  • Area 51 (detail)
    Area 51 (detail)
  • As Is (detail)
    As Is (detail)
  • Bladecatcher (detail)
    Bladecatcher (detail)
  • Central Coast (detail)
    Central Coast (detail)
  • Christina (detail)
    Christina (detail)
  • The Corridor (detail)
    The Corridor (detail)
  • Facing West (detail)
    Facing West (detail)
  • Inheritance (detail)
    Inheritance (detail)
  • One Acre World (detail)
    One Acre World (detail)
  • Rising (detail)
    Rising (detail)
  • Secrets (detail)
    Secrets (detail)
  • Testing Ground (detail)
    Testing Ground (detail)
  • The Forest
    The Forest
  • The Forest (detail)
    The Forest (detail)
  • Wonderland (detail)
    Wonderland (detail)
  • Witness To a Life (detail)
    Witness To a Life (detail)

Mike Spring | Digital Paintings 2

  • The Wait (inspired by the work of Sparth)
    The Wait (inspired by the work of Sparth)
  • Where Strides The Behemoth
    Where Strides The Behemoth
  • Earth 2 Creature study
    Earth 2 Creature study
  • March of The Robots
    March of The Robots
  • character design by Mike Spring (all images copy-written)
    character design by Mike Spring (all images copy-written)

Mike Spring | Environments

  • value study 27
    value study 27
  • value study 09
    value study 09
  • value study 02
    value study 02
  • value study 03
    value study 03
  • value study 04
    value study 04
  • value study 05
    value study 05
  • value study 06
    value study 06
  • value study 10
    value study 10
  • value study 11
    value study 11
  • value study 12
    value study 12
  • value study 13
    value study 13
  • value study 23
    value study 23
  • value study 26
    value study 26
  • value study 30
    value study 30
  • value study 16
    value study 16
  • Structure Sketch 01
    Structure Sketch 01
  • value study 28
    value study 28
  • Structure Sketch 03
    Structure Sketch 03
  • value study 29
    value study 29
  • Structure Sketch 04
    Structure Sketch 04
  • Structure Sketch 13
    Structure Sketch 13
  • Structure Sketch 05
    Structure Sketch 05
  • Structure Sketch 06
    Structure Sketch 06
  • Structure Sketch 07
    Structure Sketch 07
  • Structure Sketch 14
    Structure Sketch 14
  • Structure Sketch 15
    Structure Sketch 15
  • Character Development (robots)
    Character Development (robots)
  • value study 07
    value study 07
  • value study 08
    value study 08
  • Structure Sketch 09
    Structure Sketch 09
  • Structure Sketch 10
    Structure Sketch 10
  • value study 14
    value study 14
  • value study 15
    value study 15
  • value study 17
    value study 17
  • value study 18
    value study 18
  • value study 21
    value study 21
  • value study 22
    value study 22
  • value study 24
    value study 24
  • value study 25
    value study 25

Mike Spring | Acrylics 1

Mike Spring | Acrylics 2

Mike Spring | Drawings

  • character design by Mike Spring (all images copy-written)
    character design by Mike Spring (all images copy-written)
  • character design by Mike Spring (all images copy-written)
    character design by Mike Spring (all images copy-written)
  • Earth 2 Creature set WIP
    Earth 2 Creature set WIP
  • Earth 2 Creature Study
    Earth 2 Creature Study
  • Environment Object Design 1
    Environment Object Design 1
  • character design by Mike Spring (all images copy-written)
    character design by Mike Spring (all images copy-written)
  • character design by Mike Spring (all images copy-written)
    character design by Mike Spring (all images copy-written)
  • character design by Mike Spring (all images copy-written)
    character design by Mike Spring (all images copy-written)
  • character design by Mike Spring (all images copy-written)
    character design by Mike Spring (all images copy-written)
  • character design by Mike Spring (all images copy-written)
    character design by Mike Spring (all images copy-written)
  • character design by Mike Spring (all images copy-written)
    character design by Mike Spring (all images copy-written)
  • character design by Mike Spring (all images copy-written)
    character design by Mike Spring (all images copy-written)
  • character design by Mike Spring (all images copy-written)
    character design by Mike Spring (all images copy-written)
  • character design by Mike Spring (all images copy-written)
    character design by Mike Spring (all images copy-written)
  • character design by Mike Spring (all images copy-written)
    character design by Mike Spring (all images copy-written)
  • character design by Mike Spring (all images copy-written)
    character design by Mike Spring (all images copy-written)
  • character design by Mike Spring (all images copy-written)
    character design by Mike Spring (all images copy-written)
  • character design by Mike Spring (all images copy-written)
    character design by Mike Spring (all images copy-written)
  • character design by Mike Spring (all images copy-written)
    character design by Mike Spring (all images copy-written)
  • character design by Mike Spring (all images copy-written)
    character design by Mike Spring (all images copy-written)
  • character design by Mike Spring (all images copy-written)
    character design by Mike Spring (all images copy-written)

Mike Spring | Characters

  • character design by Mike Spring (all images copy-written)
    character design by Mike Spring (all images copy-written)
  • character design by Mike Spring (all images copy-written)
    character design by Mike Spring (all images copy-written)
  • Creature design (photo bash)
    Creature design (photo bash)
  • Hellboy creature design
    Hellboy creature design
  • character design by Mike Spring (all images copy-written)
    character design by Mike Spring (all images copy-written)
  • Tars Tarkas character design
    Tars Tarkas character design
  • character design by Mike Spring (all images copy-written)
    character design by Mike Spring (all images copy-written)
  • character design by Mike Spring (all images copy-written)
    character design by Mike Spring (all images copy-written)

Mike Spring | Vehicles

  • Vehicle Sketch 07
    Vehicle Sketch 07
  • Ship_01
    Ship_01
  • Vehicle Sketch 01
    Vehicle Sketch 01
  • Vehicle Sketch 02
    Vehicle Sketch 02
  • Ship_03
    Ship_03
  • Vehicle Sketch 03
    Vehicle Sketch 03
  • Vehicle Sketch 04
    Vehicle Sketch 04
  • Vehicle Sketch 05
    Vehicle Sketch 05
  • Vehicle Sketch 06
    Vehicle Sketch 06

Mike Spring | Fan Art

Mike Spring | Mech-Heads

  • Mike Spring | Mech Head 01
    Mike Spring | Mech Head 01
  • Mike Spring | Mech Head 02
    Mike Spring | Mech Head 02
  • Mike Spring | Mech Head 03
    Mike Spring | Mech Head 03
  • Mike Spring | Mech Head 04
    Mike Spring | Mech Head 04
  • Mike Spring | Mech Head 05
    Mike Spring | Mech Head 05
  • Mike Spring | Mech Head 06
    Mike Spring | Mech Head 06
  • Mike Spring | Mech Head 07
    Mike Spring | Mech Head 07
  • Mike Spring | Mech Head 08
    Mike Spring | Mech Head 08
  • Mike Spring | Mech Head 09
    Mike Spring | Mech Head 09
  • Mike Spring | Mech Head 10
    Mike Spring | Mech Head 10
  • Mike Spring | Mech Head 11
    Mike Spring | Mech Head 11
  • Mike Spring | Mech Head 13
    Mike Spring | Mech Head 13

Mike Spring | Compositing Reel

Music Video Concept

Rhythmic Grid Examples

Student Sample Work - Figure Drawing