Lead Environment Artist

Keywords Studios is currently looking to expand its team in Southeast Asia and is seeking an accomplished, enthusiastic, and self-motivated Lead Environment Artist to join their team working on an exciting, new, and unannounced project.

The Lead Environment Artist will create high-quality environment art while helping set the visual and quality bar for the team. They will build, iterate, and optimise environments that support gameplay, narrative, and artistic direction, and work closely with Art Direction, Level Design, and Technical Art to develop visually strong and performant environments.

Key responsibilities include:

• Creating high-quality environment art
• Building, iterating, and optimising environments
• Working closely with Art Direction, Level Design, and Technical Art
• Providing hands-on guidance, feedback, and mentoring to Environment Artists
• Defining modular and kit-based approaches to environment production
• Reviewing and improving environment assets, materials, and scenes
• Troubleshooting performance, technical, and production issues
• Contributing to visual benchmarks and establishing effective environment art workflows
• Supporting planning and estimation

Requirements:

• Proven experience as a Senior or Lead Environment Artist on a shipped AAA or high-quality game project
• Strong portfolio demonstrating environment art fundamentals and production experience
• Strong understanding of modular environment workflows, textures, materials, and PBR pipelines
• Proficiency with modern game engines such as Unreal, Unity, or proprietary engines
• Good understanding of lighting workflows and real-time performance considerations
• Experience mentoring or providing artistic guidance to other artists
• Ability to work collaboratively across disciplines and iterate quickly based on feedback
• Experience with profiling, debugging, or workflow automation is an advantage