Remote | Image Quality Specialist (VFX & Film) — $50–$80/hour

24-Mag • New York, NY

2d • Remote

About The Position

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.

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
• Must be based in the United States
• Able to work approximately 20 hours per week with availability overlapping PST through EST working hours
• Reliable access to a 4K-resolution monitor or display

Nice To Haves

• Training through a respected film, VFX, animation, photography, or digital-media programme is highly valued

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, and image consistency
• Detect over-sharpening, under-sharpening, and inappropriate enhancement
• Determine whether outputs meet professional film, VFX, animation, or photography quality standards
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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

Benefits

• Part-time engagement
• Fully remote
• Approximately 20 hours per week
• Compensation: $50–$80/hour

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Part-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed