Generative Artist

About the role

You are at home crafting stylized animation and building photo-real, cinematic environments that feel like they've always existed. Someone who understands that world-building isn't just a visual exercise, it's a narrative one.

What you'll do

• Collaborate closely with directors and producers to turn a shared vision into generated imagery
• Develop and iterate on AI-generated characters, environments, and sequences that serve a larger narrative
• Own the generative layer of our hybrid production pipeline, from concept to final output
• Maintain aesthetic consistency and world coherence across long-form features and episodic work
• Experiment with emerging tools and techniques, and know when not to use them
• Thrive across a wide range of formats, from quick-turn social content to long-form feature work and everything in between
• Move fast without losing craft, we operate on real production timelines, and speed matters as much as quality

What they're looking for

• A portfolio that demonstrates genuine storytelling, not just impressive renders, but work that has arc, emotion, and point of view
• Deep, hands-on fluency with current generative AI tools (Veo, Runway, Seedance, Kling, Luma, Comfy, Higgsfield or similar)
• The ability to hold a visual world together across many shots, scenes, or episodes, with consistent tone, character, and logic
• A restless relationship with tools, pushing existing ones to their limits and imagining what doesn't exist yet
• Collaborative instincts and comfort working with a cast of creative teammates; directors, editors, producers, and clients, each with their own language and vision
• Excellent communication and the ability to move between big-picture vision and pixel-level execution

Nice to have

• A background in VFX, filmmaking, or other storytelling formats, real world production experience and pipeline fluency is a genuine advantage
• Experience with a variety of narrative styles (ie: animation, photo-realistic, 3D, etc…)
• Familiarity with cinematic grammar: lighting, framing, camera language, editorial pacing
• Experience delivering work for film festivals, broadcast, streaming, or editorial platforms
• We’re based in New York but work with distributed talent.
• Start: Contract-based. Weekly or project fee depending on experience and availability.

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