Prototypes with a purpose.
Turn an open question into something that can be tested, played with, or put in front of people.
Independent creative technology micro-studio
Creative technology.
Made real.
Visual tools, real-time experiences,
and creative production workflows.
From the first experiment to the working thing.
01 / Selected experience
A few things
out in the wild.
Selected projects and collaborations.
Explore the archive
01
Dolmio: When's Your Dolmio Day?
Lead technical art / Unreal Engine
With Mayda
02
Pentakill: Lost Chapter
Lighting & look development / Unity
With The Mill
03
Bad Batch NOMAD
Platform development / Generative AI
04
Blumhouse Enhanced Cinema
Technical art & real-time effects / Meta Quest
With Nexus Studios
05
Milano / Cortina 2026 Flag Handover
Scene development & lighting / Unreal Engine
With The Mill
06
Elvis Evolution
Lead Unreal technical art
With The Mill
02 / What takes shape here
Good ideas.
Working things.
Real-time, in the real world.
Interactive experiences, visual systems, and technical art. Built around the creative ambition and the production constraints.
Tools that earn their place.
Custom software and generative workflows that give creative teams more control over the work.
03 / The studio
Small by design.
Broad by experience.
Miculeney is an independent creative technology micro-studio founded by Mikko Martikainen, based between London and Helsinki.
The practice draws on more than two decades across VFX, games, real-time graphics, startups, and AI, including technical art leadership roles at The Mill and Epic Games.
The approach is hands-on: build something small enough to break, find the useful questions, and keep the visual bar high.
More about Mikko04 / Notes from the practice
A little perspective.
01Every new technology creates two tribes
“It’s going to change everything.” “It’s completely useless.” They’re both useful. You immediately know who not to listen to.
02My relationship with AI
Week 1: This changes everything. Week 3: This changes nothing. Week 12: Okay, it changes some things.
03The graveyard of future technologies
I’ve personally survived: AR & VR Blockchain and NFTs Metaverse This doesn’t make me cynical. Just difficult to impress (ok, a little cynical).
04Career advice
Become useful in places where job titles stop making sense. That’s usually where the interesting work lives.
05 / Start a conversation
Something
in mind?
A rough idea, a production puzzle, a useful experiment.
There’s a good place to start.