Senior 3D Generalist – CGI & Generative AI W2 Contract 12 Months Remote, USA $85-$120/hr + Benefits, PTO, Paid Holidays
We are looking for a highly versatile Senior 3D Generalist (Contract) with broad experience across modeling, surfacing, shot assembly, lighting, rendering, and compositing. This is a hands-on senior artist who understands how these fields connect and can help carry work from early development through polished final imagery.
The role is intentionally broad, as production needs can change rapidly. This artist should be comfortable transitioning between assets, shot development, lighting, compositing, and technical workflows. We appreciate someone who can recognize what is holding a shot back from achieving its final quality and work collaboratively across different fields to resolve it.
Generative AI and advanced production workflows play a vital role in our developing organization. This position will actively research and integrate Generative AI in image, video, texture, and 3D workflows. It will also involve emerging domains like agentic coding and AI-assisted workflow acceleration.
We want an artist who manages their own work, shows technical curiosity, embraces ongoing learning, and adapts to new software, processes, and production approaches when beneficial.
Core Attributes
- Strong hard-surface modeling skills with experience working with organic forms.
- Strong artistic eye for lighting, composition, cameras, color, material response, and overall image quality, with an understanding of visual storytelling.
- Comfortable working with render passes, AOVs, compositing, grading, and image finishing.
- Able to evaluate assets and creative decisions within the context of the final shot.
- Comfortable transitioning between areas as production requirements shift and stepping beyond a main specialty to address wider production demands.
- Able to identify whether a problem originates from geometry, materials, lighting, cameras, rendering, compositing, or workflow and work together across those areas to solve it.
- A self-starter who takes initiative, identifies what needs to be done, and can move work forward with limited direction.
- Strong understanding of modern CG, real-time, and offline rendering pipelines.
- A solid understanding of OpenUSD workflows is advantageous, especially in areas such as composition arcs, layer structure, shot assembly, and asset organization.
Generative AI & Emerging Workflows Generative AI is a vital part of our current and future creative production processes. This artist will be encouraged to actively explore, evaluate, and adopt new technologies when they provide meaningful creative or production advantages.
- Generative image and image-to-image workflows.
- Generative video and image-to-video workflows.
- AI-assisted modeling and 3D asset creation.
- AI-assisted texture, material, and surfacing workflows.
- AI-supported ideation, reference development, iteration, cleanup, and improvement.
- Incorporation of AI-generated content within conventional CG production processes.
- Experience with independent coding and AI-assisted development for speeding up workflows, automating tasks, and resolving production issues is a plus.
- Ability to critically evaluate new technologies and determine where they can improve quality, efficiency, or creative possibilities.
- Hands-on experience applying Generative AI in modeling, textures, images, video, or CG production workflows is highly valued.
Preferred Experience
- Senior-level professional experience across CG production, animation, visualization, virtual production, cinematics, games, digital twins, advertising, film, or related 3D fields.
- Experience carrying visual content from asset creation and assembly through lighting, rendering, compositing, and final presentation.
- Experience working within complex production pipelines and large-scale CG productions.
- Leadership or mentoring experience is desirable, including the ability to coordinate resources, plan and complete work, and help teams navigate complexity and evolving production needs.
- Experience with OpenUSD, NVIDIA Omniverse, Houdini, procedural workflows, scripting, real-time rendering, pipeline development, or production Generative AI is beneficial.
Tools & Workflow Experience
- Experience with modern CG applications and production processes is preferred. Possessing a broad understanding of various tools and the ability to quickly adopt new technologies are important elements of the role.
Core CG Applications
- Maya, 3ds Max, Blender, or equivalent DCC applications
- ZBrush
- Photoshop or equivalent 2D image-editing tools
- Substance Painter / Designer
- Houdini
- Nuke or equivalent compositing software
- Node-based Generative AI workflows for image, video, and 3D
- Agentic coding for automation and workflow acceleration.
TCWGlobal is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based on age, ethnicity, gender, nationality, religious belief, or sexual orientation. It is unlawful in Massachusetts to require or administer a lie detector test as a condition of employment or continued employment. An employer who violates this law shall be subject to criminal penalties and civil liability.