[Hiring] Generative Artist @Designing Digital Products is Never Easy. Power Shifter Can Help.

Role Description

You generate finished shots — stills and motion — to a locked spec. Directors set intent and deliver first-pass keyframes. You take those keys and produce the volume: variants, coverage, alternates, the shots that fill the cut. Editors assemble. You do not edit.

This is a craft role with a production spine. The studio runs on locked references and dated sign-offs, and you generate against what is locked, never against a script or a vibe.

What you'll do

• Generate image and video shots to QA'd keyframes, style tokens, and reference sheets — matching an existing look rather than inventing one.
• Hold continuity: characters, sets, props, wardrobe, lighting and lens language consistent across a shot, a sequence, and an episode.
• Run batch generation and triage contact sheets down to selects.
• Produce AI voice and lip-sync passes, including alternate line handling when a read fights the model.
• Log every take with prompt, seed, model, version and parameters — provenance is mandatory, not optional.
• Flag feasibility before spend: what fights the model, what costs 3x, what should be composited or shot instead.
• Deliver editorial-ready material to spec — correct codec, frame rate, resolution, colour space and file naming.
• Escalate a shot that will not land inside its time box instead of grinding on it.

What you must be good at

• Interpreting direction: You can take a keyframe, a reference, and three sentences from a director and return something that reads as the same film.
• Model fluency across the field: Deep working knowledge of current image and video models and a demonstrated history of picking up new ones fast.
• Consistency under pressure: Character and set persistence across shots is the hardest problem in this pipeline and the one that destroys budgets.
• LLM prompting as a working tool: Prompt construction, prompt libraries, structured prompt data, using an LLM to expand and vary shot prompts at scale.
• Claude as production infrastructure: You should be working in Claude daily and be able to use and extend existing Claude Skills.
• AI voice and sync: Voice generation, cloning within licensed bounds, lip-sync tooling, and the judgment to know when a line needs to be re-written rather than re-synced.
• Post-generation craft: Upscaling, interpolation, grain and noise matching, colour continuity across takes, plate cleanup.
• Cost and throughput literacy: You know roughly what a shot costs in credits and time before you queue it.

Also required

• Rigorous file hygiene and versioning: Every asset traceable to its recipe.
• Working knowledge of commercial rights and model terms — what can ship in a paid client campaign, what carries training-data risk, what needs disclosure.
• Studio accounts only: No client material in personal or consumer-tier accounts, no client data used for training.
• Async discipline: Consolidated updates, clear contact sheets, no silent absorption of risk.
• Overlap with Pacific Time for review windows.

Not this role

• Editorial and final cut.
• Motion graphics, titles and supers.
• Sound design and mix.
• Colour grade.
• Client communication.
• Creative direction of the piece itself.

Nice to have

• Local pipeline experience (ComfyUI, node graphs, local GPU) alongside hosted tools.
• Scripting for batch and API work.
• Having built your own MCP server, agent workflow, or automation for a creative pipeline.
• Traditional production, VFX, animation or photography background.
• 3D or previs literacy for blocking and camera intent.

How we hire

• Reel and contact sheets: We want a hero reel and the unpolished sheet behind one sequence — twenty takes, including the failures, and how you got from the first to the last.
• If you are shortlisted, a paid test of 2–3 hours is required.
• Conversation with the Director and Producer.

Terms

• Contract, project-based, booked in blocks.
• Day rate or per-shot rate — state your preference and your number.
• Studio covers all compute and licences.
• NDA and full IP assignment on all delivered work.
• Kill fee and revision policy defined per project at booking.

To apply

• Reel, resume, contact sheets, the stack you are currently fluent in, the last new model you learned, one thing you have automated in your own workflow with Claude or an MCP server, and your rate.