Tyler Geosano - Senior Lighting Artist
(714)-926-1011
Tgeosano@gmail.com
Primary Skill-set:
• Mood, tone, and lighting establishment for game play, cinematic, and promotional content driven experiences.
• Years of experience authoring and tuning PBR material sets, and working with other artists to tune such materials for ideal rendering per lighting situation.
• Sky box authoring in both a matte painting pipeline, or a photo capture pipeline.
• Set dressing, prop creation, environment art, and design driven playable content creation.
Development Software experience:
Maya, Max, zBrush, Mudbox, UV Layout Headus, xNormal, Adobe Suite, Quixel Suite, Substance Suite, and many more.
Experience using development aid software such as Perforce, SVN, and JIRA. Engine experience includes Unreal 4, UDK/UE3, Unity 4 & 5, and various proprietary engines such as Radiant.
Development Experience:
February 2016 - Present Sledgehammer Games Lighting Artist - Call of Duty:WW2
• Working directly with Art Director and fellow core team members on establishing both the high level look for the game and specific game play content.
• Scripting lighting systems and events for game play content.
• Worked with engineers to implement new lighting, rendering, and post processing systems to our current and future editions of our in-house development tool set.
• Working with environment artists with set dressing, interior and exterior layouts for composition, and prop creation whenever needed.
January 2014 - October 2015 High Moon Studios Lighting and Technical Art - Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare and Black Ops 3
• Developed 360 and PS3 specific lighting, dynamic post processing, and polishing materials for
use throughout the single-player campaign and multiplayer levels.
• Level scripting for cinematic events
• Worked with in-house and out of house development teams, helping coordinate lighting and shader development
June 2013 - January 2014 OSTS, Inc. 3D Artist and Technical Producer
• Hard surface model creation, high to low poly, for use in Unity and offline rendered applications.
• Scene layout, lighting, rendering, and composited content to be used in video clips for training software.
• Working as product representative to nail down production timeline, technical development, hiring development team, and worked directly with company head to build a quality product.
June 2011 - September 2012 McAulay Studios Windows Phone game development
• Managed art/technical team, and spearheading development of in-house pipeline.
• Created both 3D and 2D assets, ranging from animated real time geometry to 2D animation sprite sheets.
• Working as a designer for content level layouts, UI/UX flow, and promotional material
Jan 2008 - June 2011 Mod Development Various mods, including Project Reality for Battlefield 2.
• Technical artist, managing pipeline, SDK tools, and build execution through our source control (SVN and P4)
• Created both 3D and 2D assets, ranging from animated real time geometry to 2D animation sprite sheets. Main task included terrain development, lighting, and weapon asset creation
• Managed a small team of artists during these hobby projects, as well as communicated with and managed our social network among forums.
(714)-926-1011
Tgeosano@gmail.com
Primary Skill-set:
• Mood, tone, and lighting establishment for game play, cinematic, and promotional content driven experiences.
• Years of experience authoring and tuning PBR material sets, and working with other artists to tune such materials for ideal rendering per lighting situation.
• Sky box authoring in both a matte painting pipeline, or a photo capture pipeline.
• Set dressing, prop creation, environment art, and design driven playable content creation.
Development Software experience:
Maya, Max, zBrush, Mudbox, UV Layout Headus, xNormal, Adobe Suite, Quixel Suite, Substance Suite, and many more.
Experience using development aid software such as Perforce, SVN, and JIRA. Engine experience includes Unreal 4, UDK/UE3, Unity 4 & 5, and various proprietary engines such as Radiant.
Development Experience:
February 2016 - Present Sledgehammer Games Lighting Artist - Call of Duty:WW2
• Working directly with Art Director and fellow core team members on establishing both the high level look for the game and specific game play content.
• Scripting lighting systems and events for game play content.
• Worked with engineers to implement new lighting, rendering, and post processing systems to our current and future editions of our in-house development tool set.
• Working with environment artists with set dressing, interior and exterior layouts for composition, and prop creation whenever needed.
January 2014 - October 2015 High Moon Studios Lighting and Technical Art - Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare and Black Ops 3
• Developed 360 and PS3 specific lighting, dynamic post processing, and polishing materials for
use throughout the single-player campaign and multiplayer levels.
• Level scripting for cinematic events
• Worked with in-house and out of house development teams, helping coordinate lighting and shader development
June 2013 - January 2014 OSTS, Inc. 3D Artist and Technical Producer
• Hard surface model creation, high to low poly, for use in Unity and offline rendered applications.
• Scene layout, lighting, rendering, and composited content to be used in video clips for training software.
• Working as product representative to nail down production timeline, technical development, hiring development team, and worked directly with company head to build a quality product.
June 2011 - September 2012 McAulay Studios Windows Phone game development
• Managed art/technical team, and spearheading development of in-house pipeline.
• Created both 3D and 2D assets, ranging from animated real time geometry to 2D animation sprite sheets.
• Working as a designer for content level layouts, UI/UX flow, and promotional material
Jan 2008 - June 2011 Mod Development Various mods, including Project Reality for Battlefield 2.
• Technical artist, managing pipeline, SDK tools, and build execution through our source control (SVN and P4)
• Created both 3D and 2D assets, ranging from animated real time geometry to 2D animation sprite sheets. Main task included terrain development, lighting, and weapon asset creation
• Managed a small team of artists during these hobby projects, as well as communicated with and managed our social network among forums.