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About the Role

Keywords Studios is seeking a Lighting Artist to create high-quality, visually compelling lighting for environments and cinematics, ensuring alignment with artistic direction and technical requirements.

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 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

• Applicants must be currently residing in Japan and possess valid authorization to work in Japan.
• 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.
• 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.

Skills

• Lighting
• Composition
• Color Theory
• Visual Storytelling
• Unreal Engine
• Unity
• Lumen
• Light Baking
• Post-processing
• Performance Optimization
• Game Development Pipelines

Location

• Japan
• Tokyo

Work Type

• Remote
• Full Time
• Contract

About the Company

• Keywords Studios is a global provider of creative and technical services to the video games industry, with over 13,000 professionals across 70+ studios in 25+ countries.
• We support clients across the entire game lifecycle through four core Service Lines: Create, Globalize, Engage, and Media & Entertainment.
• In Japan, Keywords Studios delivers its full range of services across Create, Globalize, and Engage, supporting leading publishers, developers, agencies, and IP owners through both local and global teams.

Equal Opportunity

• Keywords is committed to creating a diverse, inclusive and supportive working environment.