Lighting-Focused Environment Artist (AAA Games)

Keywords Studios Plc; Malaysia; Hybrid; MYR 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Keywords Studios is seeking an Environment Artist (Lighting Focus) to join our SEA team on a new AAA project. You will craft high-quality environment art with a strong emphasis on lighting, mood, and atmosphere, and collaborate across art direction, level design, and tech art.

The role requires proven AAA shipping experience, a solid lighting portfolio, and proficiency with Unreal, Unity, or proprietary engines.

Qualifications

• Proven experience as an Environment or Lighting Artist on a shipped AAA or high-quality game project.
• Strong portfolio showing lighting, composition, and environment art fundamentals.
• Experience with modern game engines (Unreal, Unity, or proprietary engines).
• Experience with PBR workflows and real-time rendering optimization.
• Ability to collaborate across disciplines and iterate quickly based on feedback.
• Experience with lighting tools, profiling, debugging, or scripting for workflow automation.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Skills

Environment Lighting

Lighting Portfolio

Real-time Rendering

PBR Workflows

Collaboration

Lighting Tools

Tools

Unreal Engine

Unity Engine

Proprietary Engine

Lighting Profiling Tools

Job description

Keywords Studios is seeking an Environment Artist (Lighting Focus) to join our SEA team on a new AAA project. You will craft high-quality environment art with a strong emphasis on lighting, mood, and atmosphere, and collaborate across art direction, level design, and tech art.

The role requires proven AAA shipping experience, a solid lighting portfolio, and proficiency with Unreal, Unity, or proprietary engines.