3D Environment Artist

Keywords Studios Plc; Singapore; Hybrid; SGD 55,000 - 95,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote/Hybrid work

DEIB commitment

Job summary

Keywords Studios is expanding its Southeast Asia team and seeks an experienced Environment Artist for a stylized mobile game project. The role can be based in Malaysia, Indonesia, Vietnam (Remote), or Singapore (Onsite) with remote/hybrid options.

You will create high-quality environment art, focus on lighting, mood, and atmosphere, optimize lighting setups, and collaborate across art direction, level design and tech art.

Qualifications

• 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.

Responsibilities

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

Skills

Environment art

Lighting

Real-time rendering

Unreal/Unity

Workflow scripting

Portfolio

Tools

Unreal

Unity

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 either Malaysia or Indonesia.

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.

This position may be offered as either a permanent or fixed-term contract role, depending on the project's requirements, business needs, and the candidate's experience and level. These opportunities can be located in either Malaysia, Indonesia, Vietnam (Remote), or Singapore (Onsite).

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

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

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.

Role Information: EN

Studio: Keywords Studios

Location: APAC, Malaysia, Indonesia, Vietnam, Singapore

Area of Work: Art

Service: Create

Employment Type: Permanent / Contract

Working Pattern: Full Time, Remote/Hybrid