VFX Artist / 3D Animator – Remote

YO AI Labs is hiring a VFX Artist / 3D Animator for a remote contractor role open to professionals across North America, Latin America, Europe, the UK, and Oceania. This position sits outside traditional VFX pipeline work, tasking artists with applying their visual analysis and motion expertise to annotate video footage of robotic systems for AI training purposes. It suits animators and compositors who are between productions, looking to keep their eye sharp, and comfortable working independently on frame-level visual analysis.

About the Role

This contractor engagement is built around AI video annotation, a growing area of post-production adjacent work where deep knowledge of motion, timing, and spatial relationships matters more than robotics or machine learning experience. Day to day, you are reviewing footage of robotic arms completing real-world tasks, then applying the same visual thinking you would bring to a VFX pipeline or 3D animation workflow to label motion events, object interactions, and anomalies accurately. The work is batch-based and remote, with quality-control review built into the process.

Key Responsibilities

• Review video footage of robotic arms and identify motion, trajectories, spatial changes, and task outcomes using the same principles applied in 3D animation and VFX production.
• Annotate object interactions, occlusion events, and tracking data accurately using provided annotation tools.
• Flag visual anomalies, ambiguous motion events, and tracking inconsistencies that would affect downstream AI model accuracy.
• Apply knowledge of transforms, timing curves, and spatial relationships to interpret footage with the precision expected in a professional animation studio environment.
• Complete assigned annotation batches on schedule while maintaining consistency across labeled datasets.
• Conduct quality-control review of annotations and provide written feedback to maintain output standards.

What You Bring

• A background in VFX, 3D animation, motion graphics, technical art, or computer graphics at a professional production level.
• Hands-on experience with tools such as Blender, Maya, Houdini, Cinema 4D, Nuke, or After Effects.
• Strong command of motion analysis, object tracking, occlusion, and spatial reasoning as applied in post-production workflow.
• Attention to detail refined through frame-by-frame VFX work or similar visual QA processes.
• Clear written communication skills for annotation notes and feedback documentation.
• Prior video annotation, computer vision, or AI training work is a plus but not required.

Why This Role

YO AI Labs is building annotated datasets that inform how robotic systems are trained to interpret the physical world, and they are sourcing that expertise specifically from the animation and VFX community because the visual analysis skills transfer directly. For artists between productions or looking to diversify their income as contractors, this is substantive work that draws on real craft rather than generic data entry. YO AI Labs operates with a remote-first structure across multiple regions, which gives experienced freelancers genuine scheduling flexibility.

Apply now for the VFX Artist / 3D Animator role at YO AI Labs and put your motion and visual analysis skills to work on a project that extends well beyond the traditional animation studio pipeline.