3D Environment Artist

Keywords Studios is currently looking to expand its team in Southeast Asia. We're currently looking for an accomplished, enthusiastic and self-motivated Environment Artist to join our team working on an exciting, new and unannounced project. 

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, PC and mobile. You'll get to work alongside seasoned developers bringing expertise from world-class AAA studios.

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 Malaysia, Indonesia, Vietnam (Remote), or Singapore (on-site). 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.
• Build, iterate, and optimise environments that support gameplay, narrative, and artistic direction.
• Collaborate closely with art direction, level design, and tech art to build performant and visually impressive worlds.
• Good understanding of modular and kit-based approaches to environment art.
• Troubleshoots issues related to performance, consistency, or technical constraints across platforms.
• Contributes to visual benchmarks and helps establish best practices for environment art workflows.
• Has a good understanding of textures and materials and how to optimally create and apply them across an environment.

• Proven experience as an Environment Artist (5+ years) on a shipped AAA or high-quality game project.

• Strong portfolio demonstrating environment art fundamentals and processes
• Proficiency with modern game engines (Unreal, Unity or proprietary engines).
• Lighting experience, has general understanding of lighting workflows (baking, performance impacts) 
• Experience with PBR workflows and optimization for real-time environments.
• Ability to work collaboratively across disciplines and iterate quickly based on feedback.
• Experience profiling/debugging, or scripting for workflow automation.