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

Primary Skillset:
  • Lighting and Art Direction for gameplay, cinematic, and marketing content.
  • Scripting runtime events in either blueprint or proprietary scripting languages.
  • Experience in both physically based and stylized material pipelines
  • Set dressing, environment art, and design driven playable content creation
  • Generalist technical art, with specialty in runtime pipeline development, technical bug fixing, and performance optimization.  

Development Software experience:​​
  • Engine experience includes Unreal Engine 5, 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 - Mortal Shell 2
  • Lighting gameplay and cinematic content
  • World building and environment set dressing
  • Lighting system development
  • Tool and shader development 
  • Generalist technical art and performance optimization


August 2019 - January 2023   Arkane Studios - Austin   Lead Lighting Artist - Redfall
  • Generalist lighting, technical art, and gameplay scripting
  • Look development alongside Art Direction
  • Ownership of lighting pipeline development
  • Lighting team production and management
  • Shader/Material authoring
  • Set dressing and prop modeling in relation to lighting related tasks

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

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

January 2014 - October 2015   High Moon Studios   Associate Lighting Artist - Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare,  Destiny,  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 - January 2014   Freelance Game Developer   Technical 3D Artist


Credited in these shipped titles:
Redfall
​Destiny 2
Call of Duty: WW2
Call of Duty: Black Ops 3
Destiny 1
Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare
Rage 2
Just Cause 4