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