Lighting Artist Vic/SA/Qld

Keywords Studios Plc; Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Job summary

Keywords Studios Plc is seeking a Lighting Artist to craft high-quality lighting for real-time environments and cinematics. You will shape mood and storytelling through lighting that integrates with Unreal or Unity engines, while collaborating with Art Directors and multi-disciplinary teams to maintain artistic consistency and performance across platforms.

The role emphasizes optimizing lighting for real-time performance, adhering to pipelines, and pushing visual quality through iteration and

Qualifications

• Extensive experience as a Lighting Artist in video games with a strong real-time assets portfolio.
• Solid understanding of lighting, composition, color theory, and visual storytelling.
• Experience creating optimized assets for modern real-time engines like Unreal or Unity.
• Strong knowledge of lighting tools (Lumen, baking, post-processing) and cross-platform performance.
• Ability to collaborate within multidisciplinary teams and incorporate feedback throughout production.
• Familiarity with game development pipelines and adapting styles across genres and platforms.

Responsibilities

• Create high-quality lighting for environments and cinematics in real-time game projects.
• Align lighting with artistic direction, mood, tone, and storytelling.
• Collaborate with Art Director and cross-functional teams to ensure consistency and quality.
• Ensure lighting meets performance and platform constraints; troubleshoot lighting challenges.

Skills

Lighting artistry

Color theory

Real-time engines

Post-processing

Performance optimization

Pipeline collaboration

Game storytelling

Tools

Unreal Engine

Unity

Job description

Job Description

Lighting Creation

• Create high-quality, visually compelling lighting for environments and cinematics.
• Produce lighting that aligns with the project’s artistic direction and storytelling, through mood, tone and atmosphere.
• Develop lighting optimized for real-time game engines.

Collaboration & Production

• Work closely with the Art Director to maintain the overall art direction.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams throughout the production pipeline to ensure artistic consistency and quality.
• Participate in reviews, feedback sessions, and iterative development processes.

Technical Art & Optimisation

• Ensure lighting meets performance, memory, and platform-specific requirements across a variety of platforms.
• Collaborate closely with environment, VFX and technical art teams to integrate lighting with assets and pipelines
• Apply strong understanding of lighting for real-time performance.
• Maintain consistency in quality while adhering to technical constraints and engine limitations.
• Troubleshoot and resolve creative and technical lighting challenges.

Innovation & Continuous Improvement

• Stay current with industry trends, emerging technologies, tools, and workflows.
• Contribute ideas and improvements to pipelines and production processes.
• Continuously push the visual quality and innovation of game art production.

Qualifications

Required Skills and experience

• Extensive experience as a Lighting Artist within the video game industry, with a strong portfolio showcasing high-quality real-time game assets.
• Strong understanding of lighting, composition, colour theory, and visual storytelling.
• Experience creating optimized assets for modern real-time game engines such as Unreal Engine or Unity.
• Strong understanding of lighting tools (Lumen, light baking and post-processing), performance optimization, and technical limitations across multiple gaming platforms.
• Ability to work collaboratively within multidisciplinary teams, communicate ideas effectively, and incorporate feedback throughout production.
• Knowledge of game development pipelines and the ability to adapt artistic styles to suit various game genres and target platforms.

Desirable skills and experience

• Passion for gaming and a strong understanding of market trends, player expectations, and gaming cultures across PC, Console, and Nintendo platforms.
• Experience successfully guiding and communicating with other art teams to ensure artistic vision and asset quality are maintained from concept through to final in-game implementation.

Additional Information

If you'd like to know more about Keywords Studios we recommend visiting our corporate site HERE

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Role Information: EN

Studio: Keywords Studios

Location: Asia Pacific, Australia

Area of Work: Art Services

Service: Create

Employment Type: Full Time, Permanent

Working Pattern: Hybrid

PERSONAL DATA PROTECTION POLICY

Keywords Studios is strongly committed to protecting your personal information. By sending your CV/Resume, you are agreeing to our terms and conditions and consent to your data being managed and retained in accordance with our data privacy and retention policy https://www.keywordsstudios.com/en/applicant-privacy-notice/.

Company Description

We're constantly working with some of the world's largest Publishers and most popular AAA games. Here in Australia we have studios located in Adelaide, Brisbane and Melbourne and employ about two hundred of Australia's leading game professionals. Our studio brands operating under the Keywords Studios group are Tantalus Media (Vic, SA, Qld), and Liquid Development (Vic, SA, Qld).

This position is to be hired into the Liquid Development studio brand:

https://www.liquiddevelopment.com/

https://www.artstation.com/liquiddevelopment

Liquid Development was founded in 2000 and is the largest outsourcing art studio in North America. Liquid Development is producing work at the forefront of modern game production, and the demand for our services continues to grow. Our team has contributed to AAA titles within the Halo, Mass Effect, Borderlands, and Call of Duty franchises.

Liquid Development expanded into Australia in 2026, and now consists of 30+ talented creatives across Australia. We offer a fun and cooperative work atmosphere, where collaboration is encouraged among a diversely skilled team, to remain on the cutting edge of content creation. Liquid Development collaborates closely with Tantalus Media - together we create full scope projects for some of the biggest game publishers in the world.

These positions are preferably based in either Adelaide, Brisbane, or Melbourne. Other Australian cities will be considered as remote based.