Generative AI Artist: Craft Cinematic Visuals VFX

Position: Generative AI Artist: Craft Cinematic Visuals for VFX
Location: Montreal

Repeatedly voted one of Montreal’s Top Employers and Employer of the Year for the 2022 Mercuriades Awards, Rodeo FX is a high-end creative company offering services in visual effects, advertising, animation, and experiential.
Nominated for multiple Emmy® Awards for its work on the series Stranger Things season 4, The Witcher season 2, and The Lord of The Rings:
The Rings of Power season 1, the independent, Oscar®-winning company boasts close to 900 artists crafting from studios in Montreal, Québec City, Toronto, Los Angeles and Paris.
Rodeo FX is a creative partner to the world’s best storytellers including Netflix, HBO, Disney, Marvel, Amazon Studios, Warner Bros., and Sony, and has collaborated on ads for You Tube, NBC, and Apple. Current projects include Blue Beetle, Monarch:
Legacy of Monsters, and Zack Snyder's Rebel Moon. Recently released projects include John Wick:
Chapter 4, Black Adam, Disney's The Little Mermaid, and Love, Death and Robots Volume 3, for which the company won a 2023 VES award.

Job Description  The Generative AI Artist creates images and sequences that support every stage of a project at Rodeo FX: visual direction, pitches, previs, IP development, and increasingly, final shots for broadcast. At Rodeo FX, AI is a creative tool in service of an artistic intention. It does not replace it.
Within the Ads, Post & AI department, this person works closely with our compositing, 3D, real-time, and art direction teams. Their role is to extend what these teams can do: explore more creative directions earlier and deliver imagery that holds up in production.
This is a hybrid role grounded in the realities of advertising production, requiring both a strong creative eye and technical rigor.

Key Responsibilities
Master Your Craft
Build and maintain your own workflows in ComfyUI, combining multiple models based on the needs of each shot.
Train LoRAs on image and video models and prepare the required datasets, including image selection and balancing for pose and lighting.
Test new models methodically and select the right tool based on quality, control, turnaround time, and cost.
Deliver professional-quality visuals quickly and consistently, in line with studio standards.
Creative Quality
Generate visual directions, look frames, key visuals, animatics, and final shots for advertising projects and IP development.
Think in cinematic terms: framing, lens choice, lighting, camera movement, and editing rhythm.
Use AI to explore, iterate, and propose creative possibilities without replacing human artistic intent.
Ensure every image supports the story, the intended visual language, and the overall consistency of the project.
Technical Quality
Maintain consistency of characters, products, and visual worlds from one shot to the next.
Ensure work is reproducible: save workflows, document model versions, and create results that can be recreated.
Deliver outputs in formats that can be used by compositing, 3D, and finishing teams, including the appropriate color space, resolution, frame rate, and passes.
Use live-action plates, on-set capture, or mocap data to guide generation.
Explore generative 3D techniques, including Gaussian Splatting and image-to-3D, for environments and previs.
Track credit and compute usage across projects and report on it as needed.
Communication
Work closely with art directors, supervisors, producers, and artists across other departments.
Clearly explain to producers and clients what AI can do, what it cannot do, and what it costs.
Be comfortable saying when AI is not the right solution for a shot.
Responsibility
Respect copyright, consent requirements related to a person's likeness, and the commercial licensing terms of every tool used.
Protect the confidentiality of client materials: no…