3D AI Generalist

Position: 3D AI Generalist - 6 Months Contract
Compensation: CAD 109,000 - CAD 159,000 - yearly
Company Description  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 3 Emmy® Awards for its work on the series Stranger Things season 4,The Witcher season 2 and Foundation season 1, the independent, Oscar®-winning company boasts close to 800 artists.
As a multilateral creative company, Rodeo FX's Ads & Experiences department here to bring the most innovative projects to life. With a high level of attention to detail and an almost stubborn determination to get things right, we generate a creative product of the highest calibre. We are creative to the bone, storytelling is in our blood, and collaboration is in our DNA.
We evolve our artists through projects of multiple vocations. Moving from installations to content, from music videos to local and international advertising, from museum mandates to projection, while mixing in augmented reality or digital experiences, it’s easy to immerse yourself in our world.

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 Toronto 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, lookframes, 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 client content may be uploaded to a platform that has not been approved by the studio.
Learn, Share and Grow
Actively stay current in a field that evolves every month.
Document methods and contribute to the internal library of workflows, LoRAs, style references, and test results.
Train artists from other departments and contribute to a creative, rigorous, and collaborative AI culture at Rodeo FX.
Qualifications   Portfolio demonstrating strong taste and visual judgment, including composition, lighting, style, and storytelling.
Artistic background in illustration, photography, concept art,…