Lead Environment Artist — AI‑Driven, Remote

Lockwood Publishing Ltd.; Lisboa; Remote; EUR 53,000 - 83,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private Healthcare Plan

Pension Plan

Life Assurance

Work From Home

Training & Development

Employee Assistance Programme

Job summary

Lockwood Publishing Ltd. is seeking a Principal Environment Artist/Lead to define immersive environments for Avakin Life. You will drive artistic quality, technical excellence, and innovative workflows, including AI-assisted pipelines.

This leadership role requires hands-on creation, mentoring, planning, and close collaboration with Art Direction and Production teams. Remote UK or hybrid Lisbon, EU options are supported, with occasional meetups.

Qualifications

• Expertise in 3D environment creation for games.
• Strong grasp of colour, lighting, scale, and storytelling in environments.
• Proficient in low-poly modelling and topology optimization.
• Advanced UV mapping and texture creation techniques.
• Experience with mobile optimization strategies.
• Experience creating lighting in Unity and basic environment animations.
• Ability to apply AI tools for concepting and asset generation.
• Comfortable with proprietary tools and internal pipelines.
• Ability to interpret briefs, mood boards and AI references.
• Strong time-management to meet production deadlines.

Responsibilities

• Lead environment ideation and visual development end-to-end.
• Translate briefs into production-ready 3D environments for gameplay.
• Create interiors, exteriors, landmarks and interactive spaces.
• Produce high-quality hard surface and organic assets.
• Design textures and materials for a cohesive mobile-friendly style.
• Deliver lighting, simple environment animation and VFX.
• Optimize environments for mobile performance without quality loss.
• Mentor Environment and Prop Artists through feedback and AI sharing.
• Collaborate with Design, Technical Art, Engineering, Production, QA.
• Work with outsourcing partners to meet project quality standards.

Skills

Environment creation

Color theory

Lighting

Storytelling

Low-poly modelling

UV mapping

Texture creation

Mobile optimization

Unity lighting

Environment animation

Visual effects

AI tools for art

Pipelines

Brief-driven work

Time management

Tools

Unity

Shaders

AI tools

Production pipelines

Job description

Lockwood Publishing Ltd. is seeking a Principal Environment Artist/Lead to define immersive environments for Avakin Life. You will drive artistic quality, technical excellence, and innovative workflows, including AI-assisted pipelines.

This leadership role requires hands-on creation, mentoring, planning, and close collaboration with Art Direction and Production teams. Remote UK or hybrid Lisbon, EU options are supported, with occasional meetups.