---
name: "Marcin Jakubowski"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/marcin-jakubowski"
fi1m_id: "marcin-jakubowski"
tmdb_id: 2490017
roles: ["Production designer"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 5
average_fi1m_score: 66
average_over: 5
updated: "2026-10-05T11:10:41.787182+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Marcin Jakubowski

## Identity

Marcin Jakubowski

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/marcin-jakubowski
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** marcin-jakubowski
- **TMDB ID:** 2490017
- **Same entity:** https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2490017

Production designer. Born in Braniewo, Poland (reported as origin; resides in Gdańsk).

## Details

- **Work:** Production designer
- **Active:** 2002–2019
- **Frequently works with:** [Denis Leary](https://film.one/person/denis-leary.md), [John Leguizamo](https://film.one/person/john-leguizamo.md), [Lori Forte](https://film.one/person/lori-forte.md), [Patrick Worlock](https://film.one/person/patrick-worlock.md), [Ray Romano](https://film.one/person/ray-romano.md), [Carlos Saldanha](https://film.one/person/carlos-saldanha.md), [Chris Wedge](https://film.one/person/chris-wedge.md), [John C. Donkin](https://film.one/person/john-donkin.md)
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2000s 63 (4), 2010s 77 (1)
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 66 to 61 across 5 titles
- **Score spread:** 0 at 80+, 4 at 60–79, 1 under 60
- **Genres:** Animation 5, Comedy 5, Family 5, Adventure 3, Science Fiction 1
- **Screen time:** 8 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $2,193m across 4 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2490017

## Streaming the US now

- **Disney+:** [*Ice Age*](https://film.one/film/ice-age.md) (73), [*Ice Age: The Meltdown*](https://film.one/film/ice-age-the-meltdown.md) (61), [*Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs*](https://film.one/film/ice-age-dawn-of-the-dinosaurs.md) (56)
- **Netflix:** [*Klaus*](https://film.one/film/klaus.md) (77)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Marcin Jakubowski is a Polish production designer and visual development artist working in animation. Based in Gdańsk, he is self-taught and began in digital art in the early 1990s before moving through web design, educational illustration and television commercials into feature animation.

He worked as production designer on several Blue Sky Studios films, including *Ice Age* (2002), *Robots* (2005), *Ice Age: The Meltdown* (2006), *Horton Hears a Who!* (2008) and *Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs* (2009). On *Klaus* (2019), directed by Sergio Pablos for Netflix and The SPA Studios, he shared the role with Szymon Biernacki. He developed the film’s distinctive 2D character lighting and shading system, which integrates hand-painted elements with volumetric lighting.

Klaus received seven Annie Awards, including Outstanding Achievement in Production Design for Jakubowski and Biernacki, as well as a BAFTA and an Academy Award nomination for Best Animated Feature.

*Sources: blog.siggraph.org, mjakubowski.art, imdb.com, cartoonbrew.com, trojmiasto.pl.*

## On Fi1m (5)

- *Klaus* (2019), Fi1m 77, Production Design, Production design — [page](https://film.one/film/klaus.md)
- *Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs* (2009), Fi1m 56, Production design, Production Design — [page](https://film.one/film/ice-age-dawn-of-the-dinosaurs.md)
- *Ice Age: The Meltdown* (2006), Fi1m 61, Production design, Production Design — [page](https://film.one/film/ice-age-the-meltdown.md)
- *Robots* (2005), Fi1m 62, Production Design, Production design — [page](https://film.one/film/robots-2005.md)
- *Ice Age* (2002), Fi1m 73, Production design, Production Design — [page](https://film.one/film/ice-age.md)

## Complete filmography (8)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Klaus* (2019), Production Design — Fi1m 77, [page](https://film.one/film/klaus.md)
- *Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs* (2009), Production Design — Fi1m 56, [page](https://film.one/film/ice-age-dawn-of-the-dinosaurs.md)
- *Horton Hears a Who!* (2008), Production Design
- *Ice Age: The Meltdown* (2006), Production Design — Fi1m 61, [page](https://film.one/film/ice-age-the-meltdown.md)
- *Robots* (2005), Production Design — Fi1m 62, [page](https://film.one/film/robots-2005.md)
- *Ice Age* (2002), Production Design — Fi1m 73, [page](https://film.one/film/ice-age.md)
- *Ex-tinct*, as Visual Development
- *Ally*, Supervising Producer, Production Design

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