Johnny Fraser-Allen
Senior Concept Designer & Sculptor at Weta Workshop
Johnny Fraser-Allen is a senior conceptual designer and sculptor with over two decades of experience at the award-winning Weta Workshop. He has designed characters and creatures for films including The Hobbit Trilogy, The BFG, King Kong, The Chronicles of Narnia, and The Adventures of Tintin.
With the support of Weta’s facilities and creators Richard Taylor and Tania Rogers, Johnny spent over eight years building the immersive world of The Gloaming Trilogy, illustrated through more than 40 sculptures, 50 illustrations, and 100 watercolor paintings, now touring globally in The Gloaming exhibition. He is also working on the sculpture-based book project The Wandering Woods and has illustrated the children’s books The Preschool Pirates and The Squickerwonkers, written by Evangeline Lilly and published through Titan Books.
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.
- Richard Taylor
Founder / Creative Director of Wētā Workshop














