Brad Allen was born in Launceston, Tasmania in 1977 and graduated from St Helens District High School in 1993, moving to Launceston to attend Alanvale College he then went on to acquire his trade in graphic pre-press, undertaking his vocational training at the Croyden Institute of TAFE in Adelaide.  Originally trained as a hand-drawn illustrator, Brad began experimenting with computer-aided design earning the nickname "Dr Brad" from one of his colleagues due to his ongoing experiments.

Brad soon found whilst working in conventional graphic design and printing that he was becoming extremely frustrated by the limitations of traditional print based media. This desire to move into computer image creation and animation led to the opening of his own commercial and new media graphic design house in 1999 – Scarab®. Brad is still actively involved in the day to day creative and design within the team at Scarab® and Scarab® is still a front runner in the new media / advertising industry in Tasmania Ten years on ...

Today Brad still lives in Launceston in the heart of Tasmania’s picturesque Tamar Valley with his beautiful wife Kersti and his two sons, Connor and Dylan.

Allen’s fascination with creating imaginary worlds has been a lifelong passion from a 10 year old boy drawing pictures of spacecrafts and planetary communities to becoming a professional graphic artist, 3D landscape artist and a widely recognised creative.