# Lighting Artist

## Details

- **Company:** [Keywords Studios](https://hitmarker.net/companies/keywords-studios.md)
- **Location:** Tokyo, Japan
- **Contract type:** Contract
- **Level:** Intermediate \(2–5 years\)
- **Tags:** Technical Art, 3D, Unity, Unreal Engine
- **Posted:** 2026-07-16
- **Apply:** [View and apply on Hitmarker](https://hitmarker.net/jobs/keywords-studios-lighting-artist-4467341)

## Description

## Company Description

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 — Game development, art production, and audio
- Globalize — Localization, localization QA, functional testing
- Engage — Marketing, LiveOps, community, and player support
- 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.

## Job Description

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

**Lighting Creation**

- 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.

**Collaboration & Production**

- 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.

**Technical Art & Optimisation**

- 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.

**Innovation & Continuous Improvement**

- 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.

## Qualifications

**Qualifications**

**Required Skills and Experience:**

- 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.

**Desirable skills and experience:**

- 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.

## Additional Information

**Employment Type:** 1-Year Contract

If you'd like to know more about Keywords Studios we recommend visiting our corporate site [HERE](https://www.keywordsstudios.com/en/)

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

Role Information: EN

Studio: Keywords Studios

Location: Asia Pacific, Japan, Tokyo

Area of Work: Art Services

Service: Create

Employment Type: Full Time, Contract

Working Pattern: Remote

***PERSONAL DATA PROTECTION POLICY***

Keywords Studios is strongly committed to protecting your personal information. By sending your CV/Resume, you are agreeing to our terms and conditions and consent to your data being managed and retained in accordance with our data privacy and retention policy *https://www.keywordsstudios.com/en/applicant-privacy-notice/.*

Department: Art