Character Illustrator-Animator | AI Visual Producer

Prismiera is building an identity-forward jewelry brand using AI influencers. We're hiring a remote creative-production specialist for short-form videos, character design, animation, and charm.

We're looking for someone who can draw by hand as a baseline indicator for art fundamentals; whose work shows strong character taste — expression, gesture, emotional acting, aesthetic charm, and animation or storytelling instincts. AI tool experience is a plus, not a requirement. We can train the AI pipeline relatively quickly, but the artistic talent and execution ceiling we're looking for is not something we can teach. Therefore,

**We're especially interested in people who've built and sustained their own creative work — a channel, a webcomic, indie projects, a personal art practice, or deployed content for someone else with sustained self-directed shipping and creative exploration and ownership. If your background is more traditional (studio, agency, client work), that's fine too — we'll evaluate on the work itself.**

AI has collapsed the creative space into taste, artistic eye, experimentation, and speed of execution. So we're looking for execution discipline — you finish work, you iterate cleanly, you ship completed videos autonomously under shifting artistic demand, and you adapt quickly across different styles and mediums.

What you'll do

Steering, selecting, rejecting, refining, and sequencing AI-generated visuals so they match our shifting style demands, emotional tone, and character identity.

- Visual-audio judgment and strict curation of AI output
- Refine expressive character stills using AI tools, reference pools
- Generate motion video from curated stills using AI video tools (Seedance2, Kling — training provided)
- Time clips of varying styles to narration, and deliver finished 20–60 second character-led videos
- Curate ElevenLabs voiceover and attitude (guidance provided)
- Sequence and time motion clips against narration
- Keep recurring characters consistent across many pieces
- Help build reference systems and visual judgment language over time
- Document what worked, what failed, and why — so the system improves

Style direction
Character work with high emotional expressiveness — diverse emotional and stylistic grammar from shoujo/josei to shonen/seinen to other virality-native illustrated character storytelling styles. Work should feel alive and artist-directed, not randomly generated (your art has an opinionated, taste driven direction, not general). You can play across emotional registers — dramatic, comedic, melancholic, playful, action-driven.

We provide SOPs on content format and scripting, but having your own working sense of what makes content land + general virality sense, will make the process smoother.

You might be a fit if you
- Have visual substrate in character work — illustration, comics, animation, storyboards, VTuber assets, visual novels, AI character work, or another medium where expression and character consistency matter
- Can diagnose why a character feels off
- Sustain self-directed creative output
- Are curious about AI image and motion tools, even if you haven't used them extensively yet
- Can time visual beats to narration rhythm
- Communicate clearly and work well async

AI-assisted portfolios are welcome — we'll evaluate your execution.

Compensation
$800–$1,100 USD/month full-time depending on portfolio and trial performance. Higher long-term compensation available for candidates with autonomous judgment as we expand our worldbuilding and brand. We're looking for a long-term creative partner.

Trial period prior to confirmed engagement. Tool access and AI tool credits provided.

How to apply
Send:

Portfolio link — your best work. Ideally work you've deployed into your own channels or someone else's, or any creative project you've sustained over time, showcasing self-directed creative ownership.

Character or emotional pieces, showcasing your expressive range, charming aesthetic execution, etc.
Motion or sequence sample if available (animatic, short edit, Live2D/VTuber motion, AI motion, storyboard sequence, AE edits, etc)

To confirm you've read the full posting, include the phrase "character-first" in your application
Use at least 7 apply points.

Shortlisted candidates move into a paid two-week trial that may convert to a confirmed monthly retainer.