Image Quality Specialist – VFX, Film

Jobtailor; Deutschland; Remote; EUR 48.000 - 83.000; Teilzeit

Zusammenfassung

Jobtailor seeks a seasoned Visual Quality Assessor to evaluate high‑resolution imagery and video at the pixel level, identifying defects and ensuring production‑grade standards. You will design evaluation templates, generate visual samples, and translate findings into precise feedback, collaborating with visual specialists to maintain consistency across projects.

The role requires extensive experience in film/VFX and a deep understanding of image quality, lighting, color, texture, and digital

Qualifikationen

• 5+ years of professional experience in film, VFX, animation, or professional photography
• 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
• Familiarity with AI-assisted visual tools and workflows
• Ability to generate visual samples for testing and comparison

Aufgaben

• 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, image consistency, and enhancement quality
• Evaluate rendering quality, lighting behaviour, textures, materials, compositing details, continuity, and visual consistency
• Translate visual observations into precise written feedback and structured quality criteria
• Review AI-generated visual outputs against technical and aesthetic standards
• Collaborate with visual specialists and project leads to maintain evaluation consistency

Kenntnisse

Years of experience

Pixel-level flaw identification

Image quality understanding

AI-assisted tools familiarity

Visual samples generation

Tools

4K monitor

AI-assisted tools

Jobbeschreibung

• 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, image consistency, and enhancement quality
• Evaluate rendering quality, lighting behaviour, textures, materials, compositing details, continuity, and visual consistency
• Review outputs against professional film, VFX, animation, photography, and production-quality standards
• Assess colour consistency, grading quality, tonal relationships, lighting, illumination, contrast, depth, and visual balance
• Design and refine visual-quality evaluation templates, rating guidelines, and defect-categorisation standards
• Develop criteria for consistent review across varied content and address ambiguous quality scenarios
• Generate visual samples for targeted testing and side-by-side comparison
• Evaluate enhanced, restored, generated, or upscaled content against reference material
• Translate visual observations into precise written feedback and structured quality criteria
• Review AI-generated visual outputs against technical and aesthetic standards
• Identify recurring artifact patterns and quality failures
• Collaborate with visual specialists and project leads to maintain evaluation consistency

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
• 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
• Work must be completed without using confidential or proprietary information belonging to any employer, client, institution, studio, or other third party

Core Competencies

Demonstrates expertise in evaluating high-resolution imagery and visual outputs, with a strong focus on identifying pixel-level flaws and ensuring adherence to professional quality standards. Proficient in generating visual samples and providing precise written feedback on visual quality.

Highest-signal resume keywords

• 5+ Years Experience In Film, VFX, Animation, Or Professional Photography
• Exceptional Ability To Identify Pixel-Level Flaws And Artifacts
• Strong Understanding Of Image Quality And Visual Perception
• Familiarity With AI-Assisted Visual Tools And Workflows
• Ability To Generate Visual Samples For Testing And Comparison

Hard Skills

• Image Quality Assessment
• Visual Perception Analysis
• Pixel-Level Flaw Identification
• Visual Consistency Evaluation
• Lighting And Colour Assessment
• Texture And Grain Structure Analysis
• Defect-Categorisation Standards Development
• Rendering Quality Evaluation
• Visual Feedback Translation
• High-Resolution Imagery Assessment

Soft Skills

• Precise Written Communication
• Collaboration With Visual Specialists

Industry Keywords

• VFX Supervisor
• Lighting Artist
• Colorist
• Cinematographer
• Effects Artist
• Surfacing Artist
• Digital Imaging
• Visual Production Environment
• Professional Film Standards
• Production-Quality Visual Outputs

Tools & Technologies

• 4K-Resolution Monitor
• AI-Assisted Visual Tools