Lighting Artist

About the Position

We are seeking a skilled Lighting Artist to create high-quality, visually compelling lighting for environments and cinematics in our video game projects.

Responsibilities

• Create high-quality, visually compelling lighting for environments and cinematics.
• Produce lighting that aligns with the project’s artistic direction and storytelling, through mood, tone, and atmosphere.
• Develop lighting 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 lighting meets performance, memory, and platform-specific requirements across a variety of platforms.
• Collaborate closely with environment, VFX, and technical art teams to integrate lighting with assets and pipelines.
• Apply a strong understanding of lighting for real-time performance.
• Maintain consistency in quality while adhering to technical constraints and engine limitations.
• Troubleshoot and resolve creative and technical lighting 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.

Requirements

• Extensive experience as a Lighting Artist within the video game industry, with a strong portfolio showcasing high-quality real-time game assets.
• Strong understanding of lighting, composition, colour theory, and visual storytelling.
• Experience creating optimized assets for modern real-time game engines such as Unreal Engine or Unity.
• Strong understanding of lighting tools (Lumen, light baking, and post-processing), performance optimization, and technical limitations across multiple gaming platforms.
• 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.

Nice to Have

• 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.

We Offer

• Employment Type: 1-Year Contract

About the Company

Keywords Studios is committed to creating a diverse, inclusive, and supportive working environment. If you'd like to know more about Keywords Studios, we recommend visiting our corporate site HERE.

Location

• Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
• Remote: No