3D Environment Artist

Keywords Studios; Malaysia; On-site; MYR 70,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Keywords Studios is expanding its Southeast Asia team and seeks an experienced Environment Artist for a high-quality stylized mobile game project in Malaysia. The role focuses on lighting, mood, and atmosphere, delivering lighting setups that support gameplay and artistic direction.

You will collaborate with art direction, level design, and tech art to ensure readability and performance while maintaining shaders and post-processing passes. Sponsorship or relocation are not offered.

Qualifications

• Proven experience as a stylized Environment Artist on high-quality mobile game projects.
• Solid portfolio showing lighting, composition, and environment art fundamentals.
• Experience with real-time rendering and PBR workflows for mobile environments.
• Strong ability to iterate with feedback and collaborate across disciplines.
• Familiarity with lighting tools, profiling, debugging, or scripting to streamline workflows.

Responsibilities

• Creates high-quality environment art with emphasis on lighting, mood, and atmosphere.
• Builds and optimises lighting setups supporting gameplay, narrative and art direction.
• Collaborates with art direction, level design, and tech art to boost readability and performance.
• Authors lighting passes, post-processing profiles, and environment shaders/materials.
• Troubleshoots lighting issues across platforms and improves workflows.

Skills

Stylized environment art

Lighting and mood

Portfolio showcasing lighting

Unreal Engine

Unity Engine

Proprietary engine

Real-time rendering

PBR workflows

Collaboration

Scripting for workflows

Tools

Unreal Engine

Unity

Proprietary engine

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 Malaysia. 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 Malaysia will be considered. Sponsorship and relocation are not being offered as part of this package.