Job Description

School of Art, Design and Media is looking for a candidate to join them as a Research Associate, who will fulfill the technological tasks within a research project that seeks to innovate AI-based art creation towards art-directed methods for replicating specific graphic styles in sequential images (animation).

Key Responsibilities:

Responsible for creating innovative technological solutions for AI-based generative art creation in a specific style (Chinese painting) for animation.

AI (machine learning) learning expert for stylized art creation for the moving image (animation in Chinese painting style)

Job Requirements:

Master or a BSc/BFA with minimum 4 years industry experience, primarily in computer science, or animation, art, design and media fields if the candidate can convincingly demonstrate their ability to fulfill the practical job requirements in terms of coding and creating technological solutions.

Equipped with fully practical mastery of AI-coding and machine learning towards the replication of a specific art style (Chinese painting) for animation (i.e. sequential images instead of static ones).

Preferably a capable coder who is familiar with machine-learning approaches for stylizing images through generative art. An understanding of art is a plus, but the emphasis is clearly on the technological ability. Mere artists without a deep technological qualification or background will not be considered.

High technological capability in AI-related coding is a must, ideally familiarity with current AI-generative tools (e.g. Midjourney, Stable Diffucion, DALL-E). Knowledge of digital imaging software (Adobe PS) a plus.

Familiar with both \xe2\x80\x9ctraditional\xe2\x80\x9d approaches though machine-learning and current AI-generative art-tools like Midjourney, Stable Diffusion or DALL-E and be able to analyze their weaknesses and strengths.

Capable to create new pipelines for image stylization though innovative text-prompting approaches with the emphasis on stylizing image sequences.

Preferably with experience in the technological aspects of AI-based art generation and stylization in the industry and seek to transfer his knowledge towards a deeper investigation in a world-leading research-intensive university.

Data sourcing and preparation to feed the machine learning will form a part of the job. Therefore, familiarity with digital imaging software such as Adobe Photoshop (main requirement) and/or After Effects will be a plus.

Requires strong coding/computer science knowledge, ideally combined with experience with and innovative ideas for text prompting using available AI-generative tools.

We regret to inform that only shortlisted candidates will be notified.

Hiring Institution: NTU

Nanyang Technological University