Darren Dubicki is an award winning Director & Designer with almost three decades of experience creating films, characters and worlds across feature animation, television, advertising, games and immersive media. Having worked across stop-motion, CGI and mixed media, he brings a versatile approach to visual storytelling, combining traditional craft, design and emerging technologies.

His career has evolved around the connection between design and direction. Beginning as an illustrator, he developed a deep understanding of character, composition and visual storytelling—foundations that shaped his approach as a director and designer for his long-standing collaboration with Aardman Animations - from feature film, commercials and visual development to promos, series and immersive experiences.

Today, he continues to work across both disciplines, while an increasing focus on production design brings together the breadth of his experience, allowing him to help shape projects from their earliest concepts through to final delivery.

His more recent feature design credits include Production Designer on stop motion feature, Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget, where he integrated virtual reality into the design process to explore environments, set design and camera possibilities before production, and Concept Designer on Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl. As the film's sole Concept Designer, Darren developed new locations, combining traditional design with VR exploration, colour script and lighting keys to help define the cinematic language of the film.

More recently, Darren spent three years dedicated to film and series development, collaborating on multiple projects across original IP and established franchises with Aardman Animations as Director & visual Development Lead.

He has received industry recognition and his work won awards at D&AD, ASIFA Annie Awards, Promax, Kinsale Sharks and RTS Society. He’s active on judging panels at various film, design and film school festivals and his work has also inspired the industry to invite him to talk at festivals including We Are Playgrounds, Pictoplasma, SXSW London and BAFTA.