AI Video Artist

AI Film Director + Editor

Full-Time · Remote · Reports to the Founder & Creative Director

ABOUT HINTON STUDIOS

Hinton Studios is an AI filmmaking and advertising studio built on a simple doctrine: human-directed, AI-executed. We produce brand TVCs, spec ad campaigns, short films, animated series, and social-first branded content — written, storyboarded, and directed with traditional filmmaking intelligence, then shot entirely through generative AI. No physical cameras, no compromises: every frame is held to broadcast-grade cinematic standards. Our work spans horror-comedy spec ads, product commercials, mythological epics, and boutique festival shorts. See it at www.hintonstudios.com.

ABOUT THE ROLE

We are hiring an AI Video Artist who is equal parts film director and editor. You will own productions end-to-end: take a brief or script, break it into shots, direct frontier AI video models the way a cinematographer directs a camera crew, and then cut, grade, and sound-design the output into a finished film.

This is not a generate clips and stitch them role. Our AI output must survive a TVC quality bar — photorealistic skin, locked character continuity, correct film grammar, motivated lighting, deliberate lensing. Your craft, taste, and prompt-writing precision are what get it there. You will work directly with the Founder & Creative Director across client commercials, spec campaigns, short films, and animation projects.

WHAT YOU WILL DO

• Direct complete AI productions from brief to final master: concept, script breakdown, shot lists, storyboards, generation, edit, grade, sound, and delivery.
• Write cinematic, shot-by-shot prompts for AI video models (Seedance 2.0, Kling 3.0, Runway) — specifying camera movement, lens language, lighting design, blocking, and composition with the precision of a working DP.
• Build storyboard keyframes with frontier AI image models and maintain character, product, and style consistency across multi-shot narratives using reference-image workflows.
• Edit and finish in DaVinci Resolve / Premiere Pro / After Effects: pacing, rhythm, sound design, music, typography, motion graphics, and color grading.
• Use LLMs (Claude, ChatGPT) as serious creative instruments — scriptwriting, treatments, prompt engineering, and structured pre-production documentation.
• Generate and direct AI voiceover, dialogue, and sound design (ElevenLabs, Suno, and similar tools).
• Adapt master films into platform variants — 16:9 TVC, 9:16 Reels/Shorts, 21:9 cinematic cuts — without losing the story.
• Enforce the studio quality bar: no AI artifacts, no plastic skin, no broken physics, no lazy compositions.
• Benchmark every major new model release against our current stack and continuously evolve the pipeline.
• Contribute to client-facing material: treatments, pitch decks, shot breakdowns, and revision rounds.

WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR

• 2+ years of hands-on video editing / post-production experience, plus a demonstrable body of AI-generated film work.
• A portfolio or showreel of AI-made or AI-assisted films — mandatory. Applications without work samples will not be reviewed.
• Expert-level prompt engineering and excellent written English. At Hinton, prompts are screenwriting: if you cannot write the shot, you cannot shoot it.
• Hands-on fluency with current AI video models — Seedance 2.0, Kling 3.0, Runway (Veo / Sora exposure a plus) — and AI image models for keyframing.
• Working fluency with LLMs (Claude, ChatGPT) for creative development and production workflows.
• Proven consistency technique: keeping a character, product, or visual style locked across a 20–40 shot film.
• Strong editing fundamentals — cut timing, rhythm, sound design, typography, and color.
• Real film literacy: rule of thirds, the 180-degree rule, lens psychology, motivated lighting, blocking, and continuity — and the eye to catch the exact frame where AI breaks them.
• Comfort with ambiguity, rapid iteration, and deadline-driven client production in a fast-scaling studio.

BONUS POINTS

• Motion graphics / VFX depth in After Effects; Blender or other 3D experience.
• Musical sensibility — an ear for score and sound design, across Indian and global traditions.
• Prior agency, production-house, or TVC pipeline experience.
• Experience documenting AI workflows: SOPs, prompt libraries, internal playbooks, or training others.

OUR PRODUCTION STACK

Video generation: Seedance 2.0 · Kling 3.0 · Runway Image / keyframes: frontier image models LLMs: Claude · ChatGPT Audio: ElevenLabs · Suno Post: DaVinci Resolve · After Effects · Premiere Pro

WHY HINTON

• Make actual films, not content-farm output — brand TVCs, festival shorts, and ambitious original IP.
• Work at the bleeding edge: we adopt frontier models within days of release.
• Small senior team, zero bureaucracy, direct creative ownership from day one.
• Everything we ship is portfolio-grade — your reel becomes your résumé.

DETAILS & HOW TO APPLY

Location: Remote Type: Full-time

Compensation: competitive; based on experience and portfolio strength.

Email your showreel / portfolio links, the 2–3 AI films you are proudest of (with a note on the tools used and exactly what you did on each), and a short introduction to [HIDDEN TEXT] with the subject line AI Video Artist — [Your Name].

Applications without AI work samples will not be considered.