Tyler Geosano - Lead Lighting Artist
[email protected]
​(714)-926-1011

Primary Skillset:
  • Mood, tone, and lighting execution for gameplay, cinematic, and marketing content.
  • Scripting runtime events in either blueprint or proprietary scripting languages.
  • Experience in both physically based and stylistic material pipelines, with a specialty in physical material lighting and rendering.
  • Set dressing, environment, and design driven playable content creation
  • Generalist technical art, with an emphasis on workflow development, technical bug fixing, and performance optimizing.  

Development Software experience:​​
  • Engine experience includes Unreal Engine, Radiant, Unity, Apex Edit, and others.
  • Maya, Blender, zBrush, DaVinci Resolve, Photoshop, Substance Painter, Perforce, Visual Studio, Rider, and much more. 


Development Experience:
January 2023 - Present Cold Symmetry Lead Lighting Artist - Unannounced
  • Lighting gameplay and cinematic content
  • Art tools and lighting systems development
  • Shader/Material authoring 
  • Performance optimization and generalist technical art 


August 2019 - January 2023 Arkane Studios - Austin Lead Lighting Artist - Redfall
  • Ownership of all lighting pipeline development for Arkane Studios Austin, TX.
  • Lighting team production and management 
  • Look development alongside Art Direction and Concept
  • Shader/Material authoring
  • Set dressing and prop modeling in relation to lighting related tasks
  • Performance optimization and generalist technical art 

September 2017 - July 2019 Avalanche Studios Senior/Lead Lighting Artist - Just Cause 4, Rage 2, unreleased title(s)
  • Open world lighting, color grading, and related gameplay scripting. 
  • Ownership of all lighting pipeline development and documentation across two studios and three projects 
  • Lighting team tasking and lighting art review in tandem with Art Direction 
  • Cinematic art direction and team management ​
  • Assist in open world art direction

February 2016 - August 2017 Sledgehammer Games Technical Lighting Artist - Call of Duty:WW2

January 2014 - October 2015 High Moon Studios Associate Technical Lighting Artist - Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare, Destiny 1 & 2, and Black Ops 3

June 2013 - January 2014 OSTS, Inc. Technical 3D Artist

June 2011 - September 2012 McAulay Studios  Technical 3D Artist
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Jan 2008 - June 2011 Freelance Game Developer Technical 3D Artist