Artist. Leader. Builder of Light.
I design effects that serve gameplay—from player readability to atmospheric subtlety to high-impact destruction. I've led VFX teams on award-winning titles and built pipelines that balance creative vision with technical performance.
Leadership & Community
Bryanna is widely respected within the RTVFX community for pushing visual boundaries in real time while mentoring and supporting other artists. She currently serves as an advisory board member for the Real-Time VFX Summit at GDC.
Her leadership approach centers on clarity, collaboration, and empowering artists to solve complex creative problems at scale.
Career Journey
Bryanna began her career in 2007 at Nintendo of America as a QA tester working on Wii titles. Since then, she has worked across multiple studios and disciplines, contributing to animation, FX, environment work, and pipeline development before focusing fully on real-time VFX.
Her career has taken her from Seattle to Baltimore, Champaign, Los Angeles, Cincinnati, and beyond — building games, building teams, and building systems.
Selected Game Credits
Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 – VFX Manager (2023)
Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales – Lead FX Artist (2020)
Marvel’s Spider-Man: The City That Never Sleeps – Lead VFX Artist (2018)
Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners – Senior FX Artist (2020)
Agents of Mayhem – Lead / Senior FX Artist (2017)
The Elder Scrolls Online – FX Artist (2014)
Transformers: Fall of Cybertron – FX Artist (2012)
COD: MW3: Wii port - world building (2012)
Club Penguin – 3D Character Animation (2012)
Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet - Art (2011)
Speaking & Advocacy
Bryanna is a frequent speaker at industry events and conferences. Past appearances include:
GDC 2023–2024 – Real-Time VFX Summit Advisor
Devcom 2022 – Accessibility Through Art and Design
GDC 2021 – An Explosive New Spider-Man: VFX of Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales
GDC 2017 – Art Directing VFX for Stylized Games
PAX Dev 2016 – What Color Is Slow?
PAX West / PAX South 2015–2016 – Queering Up Misconceptions
PAX West 2014 – Women in Game Development
Additional talks at universities and educational institutions
Outside the Engine
Bryanna is a lifelong artist and gamer. Outside of production work, she paints miniatures, draws, paints, and plays guitar.
About Bryanna Lindsey
Lead Real-Time VFX Artist · Team Leader · Creative Technologist
Bryanna Lindsey is a real-time visual effects artist and leader with over 15 years in the video game industry. She specializes in building expressive, performant effects systems that elevate gameplay while maintaining technical precision.
Most recently, Bryanna has been working at Bad Robot Games on their new game, 4:LOOP. Her work has been recognized with two VES Award nominations (2021, 2024), and she is a member of the Visual Effects Society.
Bryanna has extensive experience in Unreal Engine 5 and Niagara, alongside tools such as Houdini and Photoshop, building real-time systems that balance artistry with performance.