3D Environment Artist

Keywords Studios; Indonesia; On-site; IDR 240,000,000 - 360,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Keywords Studios in Southeast Asia is seeking an accomplished Environment Artist for a high-quality stylized mobile game project in Indonesia. The role emphasizes lighting, mood, and atmosphere across environments, collaborating closely with art direction and design teams to ensure performance and storytelling coherence.

The ideal candidate has proven mobile environment work, a strong lighting portfolio, and deep knowledge of real-time rendering, PBR workflows, and optimization in Unreal or

Qualifications

• Proven experience as a stylized Environment Artist on high-quality mobile game projects.
• Strong portfolio showing lighting, composition, and environment art fundamentals.
• Proficiency with modern game engines (Unreal, Unity, or proprietary).
• Solid understanding of lighting theory, color, exposure, and real-time rendering.
• Experience with PBR workflows and optimization for real-time environments.

Responsibilities

• Create high-quality environment art with emphasis on lighting, mood, and atmosphere.
• Build, iterate, and optimize lighting setups that support gameplay and narrative.
• Collaborate with art direction, level design, and tech art to ensure readability and performance.
• Author and maintain lighting passes, post-processing profiles, and materials as needed.
• Troubleshoot lighting issues related to performance or platform constraints.

Skills

Stylized environment art

Mobile game experience

Lighting and atmosphere

Unreal Engine

Unity

Optimization for real-time rendering

Tools

Unreal Engine

Unity

Shaders/Materials

Job description

Keywords Studios is currently looking to expand its team in Southeast Asia. We're currently looking for AAA, experienced Environment Artists specifically for a high-quality stylized mobile game project. These opportunities can be located in Indonesia. This is a permanent, full-time position.

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 and PC. We've secured an exciting AAA IP project and are anticipating further project announcements early in 2026.

At Keywords Studios, we are looking for an accomplished, enthusiastic, and self-motivated Environment Artist to join our team working on an exciting, new, and unannounced project.

An Environment Artist at Keywords Studios:

• Creates high-quality environment art with a strong emphasis on lighting, mood, and atmosphere.
• Builds, iterates, and optimises lighting setups that support gameplay, narrative, and artistic direction.
• Collaborates closely with art direction, level design, and tech art to ensure lighting enhances spatial readability and performance.
• Authors and maintains lighting passes, post-processing profiles, and environment shaders/materials as needed.
• Troubleshoots lighting issues related to performance, consistency, or technical constraints across platforms.
• Contributes to visual benchmarks and helps establish best practices for lighting workflows.

Requirements:

• Proven experience as a stylized Environment Artist on high-quality mobile game projects.
• Strong portfolio demonstrating lighting, composition, and environment art fundamentals.
• Proficiency with modern game engines (Unreal, Unity, or proprietary engines).
• Solid understanding of lighting theory, color, exposure, and real-time rendering.
• Experience with PBR workflows and optimization for real-time environments.
• Ability to work collaboratively across disciplines and iterate quickly based on feedback.
• Experience with lighting tools, profiling/debugging, or scripting for workflow automation.

Only those with relevant working rights for Indonesia will be considered. Sponsorship and relocation are not being offered as part of this package.