AI VFX Artist

Creator Engine; Mumbai; On-site; INR 800,000 - 1,200,000; Part time

Job summary

Creator Engine is seeking a hands-on VFX compositor for on-site work in Mumbai. The role involves end-to-end compositing, deciding when to apply traditional, AI, or mixed methods, and creating AI prompts for consistent outputs within a real production pipeline.

You will integrate AI-generated assets with careful attention to grain, lighting and lens, while keeping up with evolving AI tools and maintaining deadline-driven delivery.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience with compositing, tracking, rotoscoping and paint/cleanup in a production workflow.
• Experience using generative AI tools integrated into VFX pipelines.
• Ability to decide when to use traditional vs AI-assisted approaches on shots.

Responsibilities

• End-to-end compositing on assigned shots: keying, tracking, rotoscoping, paint and cleanup, through to final comp.
• Decide traditional, AI, or mixed approaches per shot to meet deadlines.
• Develop prompts for generative tools to ensure consistent output.
• Integrate AI assets into the pipeline with proper grain/light/lens matching.
• Evaluate new AI tools against real shots and workflows.

Skills

2D compositing

Rotoscoping

Tracking

Paint & cleanup

VFX workflow

Generative AI in production

Judgement & ownership

Tools

Adobe After Effects

Nuke

Blackmagic Fusion

Job description

Mumbai (On-site)| Contractual | 6 working days

About Creator Engine

Creator Engine is a post-production studio built for scale. Our VFX team sits between the edit and final delivery, solving shots that need precision, speed, or both. This role sits right at that intersection, where traditional compositing meets generative AI.

About the Role

This is a hands-on role for someone who can look at a shot, choose the right approach, and deliver a polished result under deadline. Some work calls for careful tracking, roto, paint, compositing, and cleanup; other shots are best solved through a combination of generative AI and traditional VFX technique. Day to day, that means AI-generated background replacements, wire and object paint-outs, muzzle flashes, cleanup, and the creation of AI establishing shots. Strong traditional VFX instincts are required alongside practical experience using generative AI in a real production workflow, along with comfort moving between both worlds: creating AI assets, integrating them naturally into footage, and knowing when AI will save time versus create more work.

This is a contractual role, engaged on a project basis, with the possibility of extension to a full-time engagement.

What You'll Own

• End-to-end compositing on assigned shots: keying, tracking, rotoscoping, paint and cleanup, through to final comp
• The call on whether a shot gets solved traditionally, with AI, or with a mix of both
• Prompt development for generative image and video tools, refined until the output is usable and consistent
• Integration of AI-generated assets into the professional pipeline, matched for grain, light, and lens to sit invisibly in the shot
• Keeping pace with new AI tools and testing them against real shots, not just demos

This Role is Not For You If

• You only want to do traditional VFX and see AI as someone else's job
• You only want to prompt and see traditional compositing as beneath you
• You accept the first AI output because it looks fine at a glance
• You can't tell a client or CP why a shot needed the approach you picked
• You need every tool and workflow handed to you before you'll try it

You’ll Thrive Here If

• You genuinely enjoy both sides of this work and don't rank one above the other
• You have an eye that catches the small thing that gives an AI shot away
• You experiment on your own time, not just when a project demands it
• You take ownership of a shot until it's actually done, not just handed off
• You can explain your reasoning on a call, not just show the result

What You Bring

• Working proficiency in at least one of: Adobe After Effects, Nuke, Blackmagic Fusion
• Solid grounding in 2D compositing, rotoscoping, paint and cleanup, tracking, keying, and general VFX workflow
• Real, hands-on experience with generative AI tools for image and video creation, including prompt writing for consistent, high-quality output
• An eye for visual quality and the patience to catch what's wrong before someone else does
• Comfort moving between precise, manual VFX work and fast, iterative AI workflows in the same day

Software proficiency gets you the interview. What gets you hired is whether you can tell, on sight, when a shot is actually done or just looks done.

Why Creator Engine

Most studios are still deciding whether AI belongs in their VFX pipeline. We've already put it there, alongside the traditional craft, not instead of it. That means you're not stuck defending old workflows or waiting for a "digital transformation" memo. You're building the version of this job that will actually exist in five years, right now, on real shots with real deadlines.

We hire for judgement and ownership before tools or years of experience