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Phillip Joseph Boutté, Jr. (born 17 June 1981; age 42), also credited as Phillip Boutte, Jr. is a Costume Illustrator and Production Designer who worked as Costume Concept Illustrator on Star Trek, Star Trek Into Darkness, and Star Trek Beyond. For the first movie Boutte, Jr. designed costume sketches for the characters played by Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Karl Urban, Zoe Saldana, Leonard Nimoy, and Douglas Tait. [1]

Boutte, Jr. graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Illustration from California State University in 2003. He broke into show business as production designer and property master on the 2004 low-budget horror movie Anna's Eve. He then worked as prop master on the short film West Bank Story, which won the 2006 Academy Award for Best Short Film, Live Action.

Boutte, Jr. was production designer for I'm Through with White Girls (2007, starring Star Trek: Enterprise's Anthony Montgomery and featuring Star Trek: Deep Space Nine's Cirroc Lofton).

In addition to Star Trek, Boutte was a costume illustrator for the anticipated third film in the contemporary Mummy franchise, entitled The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor. His other projects include the science fiction adventure Wasteland, on which he served as art director, the action film Dead Reckoning, on which he was production designer, and the family film Bedtime Stories, on which he was a costume illustrator. All of these films were released in 2008.

Boutte has also been a production designer or art director for several music videos, including "Anthem" from the Rock n Roll Soldiers, Head Automatica's "Lying Through Your Teeth", and "9 in the Afternoon" from Panic at the Disco.

Further credits as costume illustrator include X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009),Terminator Salvation (2009), Madonna's "Sticky & Sweet Tour" (2010), Jonah Hex (2010), Inception (2010, with Tom Hardy), The Social Network (2010), Priest (2011, with Karl Urban), J.J. Abrams' Super 8 (2011), Thor (2011, starring Chris Hemsworth), Captain America: The First Avenger (2011), The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1 (2011), The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2 (2012), Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol (2011), The Cabin in the Woods (2012), Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters (2013), Man of Steel (2013), The Wolverine (2013), The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013), and Bryan Singer's X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014, with Patrick Stewart, Famke Janssen, and Kelsey Grammer).

More recently, Boutte, Jr. worked as costume concept artist on The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1 (2014) and The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2 (2015), Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb (2014), The Divergent Series: Insurgent (2015), Tomorrowland (2015, written and produced by Damon Lindelof, music by Michael Giacchino, and production design by Scott Chambliss), Terminator: Genisys (2015), and The Last Witch Hunter (2015).

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