Image Quality Specialist – VFX, Film
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Image quality specialist evaluating AI-generated film, VFX, animation, and photography imagery for 24-MAG. Developing visual-quality standards and precise feedback for advanced AI research.
Responsibilities:
- Evaluate high-resolution still images and video sequences at pixel level
- Identify compression artifacts, noise, aliasing, banding, and other visual defects
- Assess grain structure, texture fidelity, edge quality, image consistency, and enhancement quality
- Evaluate rendering quality, lighting behaviour, textures, materials, compositing details, continuity, and visual consistency
- Review outputs against professional film, VFX, animation, photography, and production-quality standards
- Assess colour consistency, grading quality, tonal relationships, lighting, illumination, contrast, depth, and visual balance
- Design and refine visual-quality evaluation templates, rating guidelines, and defect-categorisation standards
- Develop criteria for consistent review across varied content and address ambiguous quality scenarios
- Generate visual samples for targeted testing and side-by-side comparison
- Evaluate enhanced, restored, generated, or upscaled content against reference material
- Translate visual observations into precise written feedback and structured quality criteria
- Review AI-generated visual outputs against technical and aesthetic standards
- Identify recurring artifact patterns and quality failures
- Collaborate with visual specialists and project leads to maintain evaluation consistency
Requirements:
- 5+ years of professional experience in film, VFX, animation, professional photography, digital imaging, or another high-end visual production environment
- Professional experience as a VFX Supervisor, Rendering Supervisor, Lighting Artist or Supervisor, Colorist, Cinematographer, Effects Artist, Surfacing Artist, Photographer, Director, Digital Projectionist, or comparable visual specialist
- Exceptional ability to identify pixel-level flaws, artifacts, and visual inconsistencies
- Strong understanding of image quality, visual perception, lighting, colour, texture, and digital-image behaviour
- Experience assessing high-resolution imagery and production-quality visual outputs
- Ability to explain complex visual defects and quality differences precisely in written English
- Familiarity with AI-assisted visual tools and workflows
- Ability to generate visual samples for testing and comparison
- Reliable access to a 4K-resolution monitor or display
- Must be based in the United States
- Able to work approximately 20 hours per week with availability overlapping PST through EST working hours
- Work must be completed without using confidential or proprietary information belonging to any employer, client, institution, studio, or other third party
Benefits:
- Part-time engagement
- Fully remote
- Approximately 20 hours per week
- Projects may be extended, shortened, or concluded based on project needs and performance













