Description
Keywords Studios is currently looking to expand its team in Southeast Asia. We're currently looking for an accomplished, enthusiastic and self-motivated Environment Artist to join our team working on an exciting, new and unannounced project.
Keywords Studios is a global leader providing art services to AAA Publishers. Our work can be seen across many of the top-selling titles on console, PC and mobile. You'll get to work alongside seasoned developers bringing expertise from world-class AAA studios.
This position may be offered as either a permanent or fixed-term contract role, depending on the project's requirements, business needs, and the candidate's experience and level.
An Environment Artist at Keywords Studios:
- Creates high-quality environment art with a strong emphasis on lighting, mood, and atmosphere.
- Builds, iterates, and optimises environments that support gameplay, narrative, and artistic direction.
- Collaborates closely with art direction, level design, and tech art to build performant and visually impressive worlds.
- Has a good understanding of modular and kit-based approaches to environment art.
- Troubleshoots issues related to performance, consistency, or technical constraints across platforms.
- Contributes to visual benchmarks and helps establish best practices for environment art workflows.
- Has a good understanding of textures and materials and how to optimally create and apply them across an environment.
Requirements
- Proven experience as an Environment Artist (5+ years) on a shipped AAA or high-quality game project.
- Strong portfolio demonstrating environment art fundamentals and processes.
- Proficiency with modern game engines (Unreal, Unity or proprietary engines).
- Lighting experience, with a general understanding of lighting workflows (baking, performance impacts).
- Experience with PBR workflows and optimization for real-time environments.
- Ability to work collaboratively across disciplines and iterate quickly based on feedback.
- Experience profiling/debugging, or scripting for workflow automation.