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AI Generative Artist

Contract  |  NYC-Accessible Preferred  |  Full-Time Potential for the Right Candidate

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. You will work directly with Directors and Production to develop imaginiative worlds, characters, and sequences using generative tools — while ensuring that every frame feels intentional, cinematic, and alive. You bring the taste along with a collaborative and experimental energy.

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 We're Looking For

Required

  • 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

Strongly Preferred

  • 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

Engagement Details

We’re based in New York but work with distributed talent.

  • Start: Contract-based. Weekly or project fee depending on experience and availability. 

  • Future: Opportunity to evolve into a full-time role

How to apply

If you're interested, we’d love to hear from you! Please send your resume, LinkedIn, portfolio or relevant work samples, and contact details to opportunities@primordialsoup.ai.

Let us know a bit about yourself and what excites you about this role.