Generative Artist

Primordial Soup, LLC; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 91,000 - 191,000; Full time

Job summary

Primordial Soup, LLC is seeking a highly creative artist to craft stylized animation and cinematic environments using generative tools. You will work directly with Directors and Production to develop imaginative worlds, characters, and sequences that feel intentional and alive.

The role emphasizes collaboration across teams, experimentation with new tools, and delivering work within production timelines while maintaining craft and narrative coherence.

Qualifications

• Demonstrated ability to craft narrative-driven visuals in a portfolio.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate closely with directors and producers to turn a shared vision into generated imagery
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Skills

Storytelling visuals

Generative AI fluency

Collaboration

Narrative world-building

Adaptability

Tools

Veo

Runway

Seedance

Kling

Luma

Comfy

Higgsfield

Job description

Primordial Soup is an Artist-led Creative Studio merging bold narratives, emotional depth, and generative workflows. The Studio develops original stories and the tools to tell them.

Primordial Soup collaborates with the world’s leading Generative Artists and Storytellers, providing them access to the latest advances in technology while helping them refine their craft and bring to life stories that were once unimaginable. What sets us apart isn’t just our process—it’s the intention behind it. We take time to understand, explore, and create with purpose at every turn.

The Role

You are at home crafting stylized animation and building photo-real, cinematic environments that feel like they've always existed. Someone who understands that world-building isn't just a visual exercise, it's a narrative one. You will work directly with Directors and Production to develop imaginative worlds, characters, and sequences using generative tools — while ensuring that every frame feels intentional, cinematic, and alive. You bring the taste along with a collaborative and experimental energy.

What You'll Do

Collaborate closely with directors and producers to turn a shared vision into generated imagery

Develop and iterate on AI-generated characters, environments, and sequences that serve a larger narrative

Own the generative layer of our hybrid production pipeline, from concept to final output

Maintain aesthetic consistency and world coherence across long-form features and episodic work

Experiment with emerging tools and techniques — and know when not to use them

Thrive across a wide range of formats — from quick-turn social content to long-form feature work and everything in between

Move fast without losing craft — we operate on real production timelines, and speed matters as much as quality

What We're Looking For

Required

A portfolio that demonstrates genuine storytelling — not just impressive renders, but work that has arc, emotion, and point of view

Deep, hands-on fluency with current generative AI tools (Veo, Runway, Seedance, Kling, Luma, Comfy, Higgsfield or similar)

The ability to hold a visual world together across many shots, scenes, or episodes — with consistent tone, character, and logic

A restless relationship with tools, pushing existing ones to their limits and imagining what doesn't exist yet

Collaborative instincts and comfort working with a cast of creative teammates; directors, editors, producers, and clients — each with their own language and vision

Excellent communication and the ability to move between big-picture vision and pixel-level execution

Strongly Preferred

A background in VFX, filmmaking, or other storytelling formats — real world production experience and pipeline fluency is a genuine advantage

Experience with a variety of narrative styles (ie: animation, photo-realistic, 3D, etc…)

Familiarity with cinematic grammar: lighting, framing, camera language, editorial pacing

Experience delivering work for film festivals, broadcast, streaming, or editorial platforms

We’re based in New York but work with distributed talent.

Start: Contract-based. Weekly or project fee depending on experience and availability.

Future: Opportunity to evolve into a full-time role

Primordial Soup provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, genetics, sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression. We are committed to a diverse and inclusive workforce and welcome people from all backgrounds, experiences, perspectives, and abilities.

Primordial Soup is committed to a fair and transparent hiring process. We confirm that this advertisement is for an active, existing vacancy within our organization. Please be advised that we may use artificial intelligence-driven tools to assist our recruitment team in screening, assessing, and selecting candidates for this position.