Johnny Fraser-Allen
Senior Concept Designer & Sculptor at Weta Workshop
Johnny Fraser-Allen is a senior conceptual designer and sculptor with over a decade of experience in the film industry at the award-winning Weta Workshop. He has designed characters and creatures for Peter Jackson’s King Kong and The Hobbit trilogy, Andrew Adamson's Narnia Chronicles, and Stephen Spielberg's The Adventures of Tintin. With the help of Weta's facilities and its creators, Richard Taylor and Tania Rogers, Johnny has spent over eight years creating the immersive world of “The Gloaming Trilogy.” With three novels worth of written story, The Gloaming Trilogy has been illustrated with over 40 sculptures, over 50 illustrations, and more than 100 watercolor paintings, which are now touring the world in The Gloaming exhibition. Johnny is also working on a sculpture-based book project titled “The Wandering Woods,” and illustrated the children's book, “The Preschool Pirates.” He also created all of the illustrations for “The Squickerwonkers,” written by actress Evangeline Lilly, published through Titan books. Follow Johnny on Instagram @johnny_fraserallen_artist.
"I had the extraordinary pleasure of meeting the unique individual that is JFA eleven years ago. When Johnny walked into our lives, in walked the most incredible mind of enthusiasm for all things fancy and fun. Johnny has spent time working with us on multiple blockbuster feature films, interspersed with periods of endeavour in his own worlds. Johnny is both a wonderful artist and an incredible conceptual mind bringing a great deal of joy through the worlds that he invents and creates."
- Richard Taylor
Co-owner, Weta Workshop