3D Environment Artist

Keyword Studios; Indonesia; On-site; IDR 612,745,098 - 875,350,140; Full time

Job summary

Keywords Studios is seeking an experienced Environment Artist for a permanent full-time position in Indonesia or Malaysia. The role focuses on creating high-quality environment art with a strong emphasis on lighting and atmosphere for a stylized mobile game project. Candidates should have proven experience in mobile game projects and proficiency with modern game engines. Join a diverse team committed to innovation and equity in the workplace.

Qualifications

• Proven experience as a stylized Environment Artist on high-quality mobile game projects.
• Strong portfolio demonstrating lighting, composition, and environment art fundamentals.
• Ability to work collaboratively across disciplines and iterate quickly based on feedback.

Responsibilities

• Create high-quality environment art with emphasis on lighting and atmosphere.
• Iterate and optimize lighting setups for gameplay and narrative.
• Collaborate with art direction and level design to enhance spatial readability.

Skills

Stylized Environment Art

Lighting and Mood Creation

Collaboration

Real-time Rendering

Proficiency with Unreal or Unity

PBR Workflows

Tools

Unreal Engine

Unity

Job description

Keywords Studios currently looking to expand its team in South East 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 either Malaysia or 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 anticipating further project announcements early in 2026.

Requirements

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 a 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.

Benefits

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

Our Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging (DEIB) Commitment: Keywords Studios is an Equal Opportunity Employer and considers applicants for all positions without regard to race, ethnicity, religion or belief, sex, age, national origin, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws. If you require any adjustments during the process please let us know in your application. We are committed to creating a dynamic work environment that values diversity and inclusion, respect and integrity, customer focus, and innovation. We especially welcome applications from candidates of underrepresented groups in the industry.