AI Animator

Company description

HARBOR is a global company with operations in New York, Los Angeles, and London. Relentlessly focused on talent, technical innovation, and protection of artistic vision, HARBOR hones every detail throughout the moving image-making process: live-action, dailies, creative & offline editorial, design, visual effects, CG, sound & picture finishing.

We're looking for an AI animator/artist contributing to concepting, exploration, and production of AI-driven video, VFX, and motion graphics for advertising. This person will collaborate across disciplines and iterate quickly in an agile environment. Candidates should be able to demonstrate their creativity through their work and share their perspective on visual storytelling.

• Contribute to concept art, boards, animatics, and exploratory comps using AI tools.
• Assist dataset curation and model fine tuning under senior guidance.
• Build clean Comfy
  
  UI/Runway project graphs; maintain prompts, seeds, presets.
• Iterate quickly on look dev; hand off to comp/finishing with tidy source packages.
• Document learnings; propose small workflow improvements.

• Video generation: VEO3 (or equivalent), Runway Gen3, Pika, Luma, Flux; motion/control features (masking, in painting, keyframe guidance).
• Image generation:
  Firefly, Midjourney, SDXL; upscalers, denoisers, texture synthesis.
• Traditional DCC/VFX:
  After Effects (core), Cinema4D (MoGraph basics), Nuke (intro to mid comp), Photoshop; exposure to Flame and Maya preferred.
• Production basics:
  Color space awareness (sRGB/Rec.
  709/ACES), codecs, frame rates, aspect ratios, plate management, versioning discipline.

• 2–5+ years in motion/VFX/animation; portfolio showing creative experimentation and solid craft.
• Demonstrated ability to learn new AI tools and follow pipeline conventions.
• Strong aesthetic sense; attention to detail in comp, edges, grain, and integration.
• Team-oriented communicator; organized project files and notes.
• Experience with compositing and photo editing/manipulation
• Curiosity-driven mindset with a desire to explore the future of creative production.

Our Publicis Groupe motto “Viva LaDifférence”meanswe’rebetter together, and we believe thatour differences make us stronger. It means wehonor and celebrate all identities, across all facetsof intersectionality, and it underpins all that we doas an organization.

We are focusedon fostering belonging and creating equitable &inclusive experiences for all talent.

Publicis Groupe provides robust and inclusive benefit programs and policies to support the evolving and diverse needs of our talent and enable every person to grow and thrive. Our benefits package includes medical coverage, dental, vision, disability, 401K, as well as parental and family care leave, family forming assistance, tuition reimbursement, and flexible time off.

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Compensation Range: $66,785 - $101,085. This is the pay range the Company believes it will pay for this position at the time of this posting. Consistent with applicable law, compensation will be determined based on the skills, qualifications, and experience of the applicant along with the requirements of the position, and the Company reserves the right to modify this pay range at any time.

Temporary roles may be eligible to participate in our freelancer/temporary employee medical plan through a third-party benefits administration system once certain criteria have been met. Temporary roles may also qualify for participation in our 401(k) plan after eligibility criteria have been met. For regular roles, the Company will offer medical coverage, dental, vision, disability, 401k, and paid time off. The Company anticipates the Final date to receive applications for this job posting will be 2/27/2026.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.