# Lead Environment Artist

**Company**: Keywords Studios
**Location**: Malaysia
**Work arrangement**: remote
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Game Development
**Industry**: Technology
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q64141679

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## Description

Keywords Studios is currently looking to expand its team in Southeast Asia. We're currently looking for an accomplished, enthusiastic and self-motivated Lead 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.

A Lead Environment Artist at Keywords Studios:

- Creates high-quality environment art while helping set the visual and quality bar for the team.

- Builds, iterates, and optimises environments that support gameplay, narrative, and artistic direction.

- Works closely with Art Direction, Level Design, and Technical Art to develop visually strong and performant environments.

- Provides hands-on guidance, feedback, and mentoring to Environment Artists.

- Helps define modular and kit-based approaches to environment production.

- Reviews and improves environment assets, materials, and scenes to maintain quality and consistency.

- Troubleshoots performance, technical, and production issues within the environment art pipeline.

- Contributes to visual benchmarks and helps establish effective environment art workflows.

- Supports planning and estimation while remaining actively involved in asset and environment production.

## 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.

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## Skills

### Required
- Unreal
- Unity
- modular environment workflows
- textures
- materials
- PBR pipelines
- lighting workflows
- mentoring
- artistic guidance
- profiling
- debugging
- workflow automation

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