Environment Artist

Keywords Studios

2d•Remote

About The Position

Keywords Studios is seeking an Environment Artist to create high-quality, visually compelling environments for video games. The role involves producing environment assets that align with the project’s artistic direction and storytelling, demonstrating creativity, and adapting to various game styles. Assets must be optimized for real-time game engines. The artist will collaborate closely with the Art Director and cross-functional teams, ensuring artistic consistency and quality throughout the production pipeline. Responsibilities also include ensuring assets meet performance, memory, and platform-specific requirements, applying a strong understanding of real-time performance, and troubleshooting creative and technical challenges. The role encourages staying current with industry trends, contributing to pipeline improvements, and pushing visual quality and innovation.

Requirements

Extensive experience as an Environment Artist within the video game industry, with a strong portfolio showcasing high-quality game assets.
Strong understanding of composition, colour theory, visual storytelling and an eye for detail.
Experience creating optimized assets for modern real-time game engines such as Unreal Engine or Unity.
Experienced with Substance Painter and 3D software.
Proficient in high-poly and low-poly modelling and knowledge of various texturing workflows.
Ability to work collaboratively within multidisciplinary teams, communicate ideas effectively, and incorporate feedback throughout production.
Knowledge of game development pipelines and the ability to adapt artistic styles to suit various game genres and target platforms.
Fluent in Japanese and with a high degree of English language proficiency.
Currently residing in Japan and possess valid authorization to work in Japan.

Nice To Haves

Passion for gaming and a strong understanding of market trends, player expectations, and gaming cultures across PC, Console, and Nintendo platforms.
Experience successfully guiding and communicating with other art teams to ensure artistic vision and asset quality are maintained from concept through to final in-game implementation.

Responsibilities

Create high-quality, visually compelling environments.
Produce environment assets that align with the project’s artistic direction and storytelling.
Demonstrate creativity and the ability to adapt to various game styles and graphic styles.
Develop assets optimized for real-time game engines.
Work closely with the Art Director to maintain the overall art direction.
Collaborate with cross-functional teams throughout the production pipeline to ensure artistic consistency and quality.
Participate in reviews, feedback sessions, and iterative development processes.
Ensure assets meet performance, memory, and platform-specific requirements across a variety of platforms.
Collaborate closely with art team and technical art teams to integrate assets and pipelines.
Apply strong understanding of real-time performance.
Maintain consistency in quality while adhering to technical constraints and engine limitations.
Troubleshoot and resolve creative and technical challenges.
Stay current with industry trends, emerging technologies, tools, and workflows.
Contribute ideas and improvements to pipelines and production processes.
Continuously push the visual quality and innovation of game art production.