A 51-year-old Randolph man who lied about creating the characters and plot for the hit animated movie “Kung Fu Panda” as part of a scheme to bilk DreamWorks Pictures out of millions of dollars was convicted yesterday of wire fraud and perjury charges, officials say.

Some of the faked and backdated “Kung Fu Panda Power” drawings that Jayme Gordon submitted as part of a 2011 copyright infringement lawsuit against DreamWorks were found to have been traced from a 1996 Disney Lion King coloring book. Others had been altered to more closely resemble the main characters from “Kung Fu Panda” after he watched the trailer for the film in 2008.

Months after he filed the lawsuit, Gordon suggested DreamWorks agree to settle by paying him $12 million — a proposal the company rejected.

“To further his fraud and persuade DreamWorks to agree to a settlement, Gordon fabricated and backdated drawings of characters similar to those in Kung Fu Panda, lied repeatedly during his deposition and destroyed computer evidence,” a statement issued yesterday by U.S. Attorney Carmen M. Ortiz said.

Gordon agreed to throw out the lawsuit when DreamWorks confronted him with evidence proving that some of his sketches — dated 1992 or 1993 — were copied from a Disney Lion King coloring book that wasn’t published until 1996. But the company decided to move forward with the case because it had already spent more than two years and nearly $3 million defending against the fraudulent suit.

When Gordon was put on the stand, he doubled down on his lie, saying, “Disney had copied his drawings and appeared to have based the character Timon, from The Lion King, on (his) drawings.”

“Beyond the superficial similarities, the panda characters and story that Gordon created during the 1990s has very little in common with DreamWorks’ movie, Kung Fu Panda,” Ortiz wrote.

“During the course of the civil litigation, Gordon intentionally deleted relevant evidence on his computer that he was required to produce in discovery and lied during his civil deposition. Furthermore, Gordon fabricated and backdated sketches that served as support for his suit.”

Gordon yesterday was convicted by a jury in federal court in Boston of four counts of wire fraud and three counts of perjury.

He faces up to 20 years behind bars and a fine of up to $250,000 on the wire fraud charges and up to five years in prison and a fine of up to $250,000 for perjury.

U.S. District Court Chief Judge Patti B. Saris scheduled sentencing for March 30.