Johnson is best known for directing the DreamWorks animated films Antz, Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas, Over the Hedge, and Home.
He also produced two animated films; both of which earned Richter Grant Organization Awards.
His introduction to computer animation came in 1985 while he worked on the staff at Post Effects in Chicago.
[4] He later joined Pacific Data Images in 1988 and two years later co-founded the studio's Character Animation Group.
While at DreamWorks Animation, he also directed Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas, Home (an adaptation of The True Meaning of Smekday), and the Christmas television special Kung Fu Panda Holiday,[5][6][7] and additionally served as executive producer for How to Train Your Dragon and Abominable.