Lead Environment Artist - Remote/SEA (AAA Games)

Game Companies; Singapore; Hybrid; SGD 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Keywords Studios is expanding its Southeast Asia team and is seeking a Lead Environment Artist to join an exciting, new unannounced project. The role involves building and iterating high-quality environments that support gameplay, narrative, and artistic direction, while mentoring other artists.

You will work with Art Direction, Level Design, and Technical Art to develop visually strong and performant environments, establish modular workflows, and drive quality benchmarks across the environment

Qualifications

• Senior or Lead Environment Artist with shipped AAA/high-quality project experience.
• Strong portfolio showing environment art fundamentals and production.
• Understanding of modular workflows, textures, materials, and PBR pipelines.
• Proficiency with game engines such as Unreal or Unity (or proprietary).
• Good lighting knowledge and real-time performance considerations.
• Experience mentoring other artists.

Responsibilities

• Create high-quality environment art and set visual/quality bar for the team.
• Build, iterate, and optimize game environments aligned with gameplay and narrative.
• Collaborate with art direction, level design, and tech art to maintain visuals and performance.
• Provide hands-on guidance and mentoring to Environment Artists.
• Help define modular environment production and workflows.
• Review and improve environment assets and scenes for quality and consistency.
• Troubleshoot performance and production issues in the environment pipeline.
• Contribute to visual benchmarks and environment workflows.
• Support planning and estimation for asset production.

Skills

Environment art fundamentals

AAA project experience

Modular workflows

Unreal Engine

Unity

Lighting workflows

Mentoring

Cross-disciplinary collaboration

Tools

Unreal Engine

Unity

Proprietary engine

Job description

Keywords Studios is expanding its Southeast Asia team and is seeking a Lead Environment Artist to join an exciting, new unannounced project. The role involves building and iterating high-quality environments that support gameplay, narrative, and artistic direction, while mentoring other artists.

You will work with Art Direction, Level Design, and Technical Art to develop visually strong and performant environments, establish modular workflows, and drive quality benchmarks across the environment