AI ARTIST HIRING BOOM: REAL OPPORTUNITY OR JUST NOISE?🎨 The creative job market has been brutal for a few years. Traditional illustration, concept art, and execution heavy design roles took heavy hits.Some analyses showed computer graphics artist, producers and editors postings down over 30%, as generative tools flooded the market.Junior openings contracted while “AI enhanced” titles exploded.And this new AI artist job market has found a natural home on LinkedIn. The... Read more
AI ARTIST HIRING BOOM: REAL OPPORTUNITY OR JUST NOISE?
🎨 The creative job market has been brutal for a few years. Traditional illustration, concept art, and execution heavy design roles took heavy hits.
Some analyses showed computer graphics artist, producers and editors postings down over 30%, as generative tools flooded the market.
Junior openings contracted while “AI enhanced” titles exploded.
And this new AI artist job market has found a natural home on LinkedIn. The question is… are the jobs real or any good? As usual, the answer is: sometimes.
(All of the ads in the thumbnail are positions I screenshotted from LinkedIn.)
🍝 Remember the Will Smith eating spaghetti video from early 2023?
That glitchy, nightmarish clip from Runway Gen 2 felt like a novelty. Three years later the leap is staggering: consistent characters, longer coherent shots, better physics, lip sync, and real camera control.
In just the past 12 months, tools like the latest Kling, Veo, Seedance, Hailuo, and refined Runway/Luma models have pushed high quality AI video and stills to near production ready in the right hands.
🤔 Which makes a lot of these LinkedIn ads feel odd. “We’re hiring AI Artists / AI Video Ad Creators / AI VFX Artists.”
Why not hire strong directors, editors, and motion designers who already understand storytelling, timing, and taste then teach them the tools?
The tech moves so fast that yesterday’s specialist prompt skills can be outdated in months. Craft + AI fluency is the far more durable combination.
Any company doing this is much more likely to be on the level.
đź‘» Many of these postings also look like phantom (ghost) jobs.
Companies leave ads live to collect portfolios, signal growth to investors or staff, or simply keep the pipeline warm with no immediate intent to hire. It’s common across LinkedIn. Estimates often put 20%+ of postings in that category, and the AI creative boom has only amplified the noise.
✨ Still, real opportunities exist.
This tech isn’t going anywhere. The barrier to creating something may be low, but it takes real skill to make something imaginative, creative, entertaining, informative and consistent.
The people who will thrive are those who combine sharp creative judgment with exceptional command of these rapidly evolving tools.
There may be a lot of noise, and genuine opportunities can be hard to separate from the scams… but the industry needs skilled users of this tech.
And I suspect many of you reading this will end up as high end users in the future if you’re not already.
🎨 The creative job market has been brutal for a few years. Traditional illustration, concept art, and execution heavy design roles took heavy hits.
Some analyses showed computer graphics artist, producers and editors postings down over 30%, as generative tools flooded the market.
Junior openings contracted while “AI enhanced” titles exploded.
And this new AI artist job market has found a natural home on LinkedIn. The question is… are the jobs real or any good? As usual, the answer is: sometimes.
(All of the ads in the thumbnail are positions I screenshotted from LinkedIn.)
🍝 Remember the Will Smith eating spaghetti video from early 2023?
That glitchy, nightmarish clip from Runway Gen 2 felt like a novelty. Three years later the leap is staggering: consistent characters, longer coherent shots, better physics, lip sync, and real camera control.
In just the past 12 months, tools like the latest Kling, Veo, Seedance, Hailuo, and refined Runway/Luma models have pushed high quality AI video and stills to near production ready in the right hands.
🤔 Which makes a lot of these LinkedIn ads feel odd. “We’re hiring AI Artists / AI Video Ad Creators / AI VFX Artists.”
Why not hire strong directors, editors, and motion designers who already understand storytelling, timing, and taste then teach them the tools?
The tech moves so fast that yesterday’s specialist prompt skills can be outdated in months. Craft + AI fluency is the far more durable combination.
Any company doing this is much more likely to be on the level.
đź‘» Many of these postings also look like phantom (ghost) jobs.
Companies leave ads live to collect portfolios, signal growth to investors or staff, or simply keep the pipeline warm with no immediate intent to hire. It’s common across LinkedIn. Estimates often put 20%+ of postings in that category, and the AI creative boom has only amplified the noise.
✨ Still, real opportunities exist.
This tech isn’t going anywhere. The barrier to creating something may be low, but it takes real skill to make something imaginative, creative, entertaining, informative and consistent.
The people who will thrive are those who combine sharp creative judgment with exceptional command of these rapidly evolving tools.
There may be a lot of noise, and genuine opportunities can be hard to separate from the scams… but the industry needs skilled users of this tech.
And I suspect many of you reading this will end up as high end users in the future if you’re not already.
