We are sharing a specialised part-time opportunity for experienced visual professionals with deep expertise in film, VFX, animation, cinematography, colour, lighting, rendering, or high-end photography and an exceptional eye for pixel-level image quality.
This role supports advanced AI research focused on visual enhancement and image-generation quality. Selected professionals will evaluate high-resolution video and still imagery, identify subtle visual artifacts, develop rigorous evaluation standards, and translate complex visual observations into precise written feedback and structured quality criteria.
Key Responsibilities
Image & Video Quality Evaluation
- 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, and image consistency
- Detect over-sharpening, under-sharpening, and inappropriate enhancement
- Determine whether outputs meet professional film, VFX, animation, or photography quality standards
VFX, Rendering & Visual Fidelity
- Evaluate rendering quality, lighting behaviour, textures, materials, and compositing details
- Identify subtle inconsistencies that may be overlooked in standard visual review
- Assess continuity and visual consistency across frames and sequences
- Apply professional judgement to high-end digital imagery and cinematic content
- Review outputs against standards used in production-quality visual workflows
Colour, Lighting & Image Perception
- Assess colour consistency, grading quality, tonal relationships, and visual balance
- Evaluate lighting behaviour, illumination, contrast, depth, and image structure
- Identify colour artifacts and inconsistencies across sequences
- Apply knowledge of light physics and visual perception to quality assessments
- Evaluate depth of field, sharpness, and other image characteristics affecting perceived realism
Evaluation Frameworks & Quality Standards
- Design and refine visual-quality evaluation templates and rating guidelines
- Define clear standards for identifying and categorising visual defects
- Develop criteria that reviewers can apply consistently across varied content
- Address edge cases and ambiguous visual-quality scenarios
- Help maintain a consistent professional quality bar across reviewers and projects
Visual Testing & Sample Development
- Generate visual samples for targeted testing and side-by-side comparison
- Create examples designed to expose specific image-quality strengths or weaknesses
- Evaluate enhanced, restored, generated, or upscaled content against reference material
- Support structured experimentation across different visual conditions
- Apply AI-assisted tools where appropriate to develop evaluation material
AI Evaluation & Written Feedback
- Translate subtle visual observations into clear, precise descriptive language
- Produce structured feedback suitable for evaluation data and quality-review templates
- Review AI-generated visual outputs against defined technical and aesthetic standards
- Identify recurring artifact patterns and quality failures
- Collaborate with other visual specialists and project leads to maintain evaluation consistency
Ideal Profile
- 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
- Training through a respected film, VFX, animation, photography, or digital-media programme is highly valued
- 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
Engagement Details
- Part-time engagement
- Fully remote
- Approximately 20 hours per week
- Working hours must overlap the PST–EST window
- Compensation: $50–$80/hour
- Projects may be extended, shortened, or concluded based on project needs and performance
- Work must be completed without using confidential or proprietary information belonging to any employer, client, institution, studio, or other third party
About the Platform
This opportunity is available through 24-MAG LLC. We connect experienced professionals with remote consulting opportunities across technical, evaluation, and project-based workstreams.
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