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This present website for my work has received over 274,000 viewers since it was created in 2016
Currently we receive over 2000 visitors each month to see the latest images of my work created at the north west of England Studio on the various pages of my studio's website .
IF YOU WISH TO CONTACT THE STUDIO ABOUT MY WORK .
PLEASE USE THE FOLLOWING STUDIO EMAIL
tpdnorthwest@outlook.com
RICHARD DIXON
TPD STUDIOS , LANCASHIRE , ENGLAND .
We also show some of our images on TWITTER X , FACEBOOK , INSTAGRAM and THREADS .
SEASTAR 5 INVADERS FROM THE ABYSS - THE SERIES
Written and Created by Richard Dixon .
Copywrite Richard Dixon October 2012 .
UNDERWATER ACTION AND ADVENTURE IN A NEW SCI-FI SERIES
A new sci-fi underwater adventure series in a new comicbook format....made in Lancashire , England .....
Our new comicbooks are created in Supermation Art....its photostyle realism art with super realistic backgrounds beyond the imagination .
Initially in a three books release for SEASTAR 5 INVADERS FROM THE ABYSS.....in 2024 and into 2025 .
We will then follow this with more new creations from our studio...STEAMBOAT JACK...a time and space sci-fi adventure.....later in 2025....MAGNUS JONES AND THE STARJET RANGERS...an outer space
tale from the other side of the universe.....more details on our new productions coming soon to the website...stay tuned into us for more images .....
The new SUPERMATION RETROART PROCESS for SEASTAR 5 INVADERS FROM THE ABYSS in 2024 now uses Maquette Original Figurines Character Designs in our creation process .
These miniature figurines are made specially with steel stop motion armatures with plastic skin for our main characters , together with wooden armatures for minor characters , giving a realistic
look for initial photography for the supermation storyboards creation for the series .
Model animation miniature sets together with artwork sets are all filmed at TPD STUDIOS , Lancashire England .
We then turn the photoanimation images into artwork thin paper cells using a painting drawn style of artwork creation for the final comicbook creation process .
This process also combines real picture background images photography created by Richard Dixon .
We blend characters and backgrounds digitally together giving a very realistic finished picture image with model animation photography being used for miniature vehicles on the printed page for
final Publishing as RICHARD DIXON'S SUPERMATION COMICS .
Some of the backgrounds for this new series of comicbooks were created on location on the Island of Mauritius in the Indian Ocean which stands in for our tropical island locations in the Pacific
Ocean in our series .
The underwater photography landscape backgrounds were created with my photography in the waters around Mauritius in the nineteen eighties when I went skin-diving there .
The images from that time have now been printed on canvas for our miniature sets where miniature vehicle models could be filmed in action sequences for my original SEASTAR ONE pilot in 2015-2018
and later to appear in my supermation composite artworks for the latest series of comicbooks .
SEASTAR 5 INVADERS FROM THE ABYSS ....BOOK ONE ....STRANGE ENCOUNTER.....The Supermation Edition ComicBook....is now available at ComicBook shops across Lancashire , England....in Preston -
Blackburn - Lancaster and in St.Annes on sea at "storytellers inc." Book Store ......and on E/Bay UK for sales in England , USA and Europe , we also despatch to most International Destinations
.
The first book episode is also available in the Amazonstore in a Paperback Edition and E/Book Edition .
SEASTAR 5 BOOK TWO....PRINCESS FROM LEMURIA.....the second book in the series is currently in production for a release next year .
We have also storyboarded a third Book for the series....LEMURIA STRIKES BACK...and this will be produced for a late 2025 release .
Welcome to my history in the Creative Media Business which started back in 1970 in Blackpool , Lancashire when I created RICHARD DIXON PHOTOGRAPHY following a Blackpool College Photography Course
.
My photography in my early years covered work across all of the following , Commercial Photography , Entertainment Industry Photography in Theatres , Wedding and Portrait Photography , also
shooting Model Portfolios for Fashion and Glamour Models starting out in the model and fashion business in the north west of England , Motor Sport Photography of Formula One - Formula Two -Touring
Cars....and lots of Advertising Product Studio Photography for local companies on the Fylde Coast of Lancashire .
I entered the World of Toy Photography in 1988 and added Children's Comics and Magazines to my work with the setting up of the TOY PHOTO DESIGN STUDIO BRAND in the following years , which
eventually expanded to become my operating media brand today of RICHARD DIXON TPD STUDIOS , an Advertising Photography and Visual Production Design Studio .
Over the next thirty five years my work in the Toy Industry and Children's Comics Photographic Illustration was carried out under my TPD STUDIOS BRAND , across seven production studios of
different sizes at various times all based in and around Blackpool and Preston , Lancashire , England .
Today " RICHARD DIXON TPD STUDIOS " , Photography , Miniature Set Production Design , Model Making and Visual Art Production Design is still created in the north west of Lancashire , England .
My visual media work has appeared over all these years across England , Europe , United States of America and around the world .
The two previous websites for RICHARD DIXON TOY PHOTO DESIGN and RICHARD DIXON PHOTOGRAPHY have been brought together under RICHARD DIXON TPD STUDIOS with all my Toy Industry work since this
current site was created in 2016 to provide a showcase site for my work covering most of the last thirty five years .
This present studio website , created in 2016 receives over 2,000 viewers each month to see my current work projects together with my Picture Archives .
My Toy Industry Advertising work has featured across many leading products over the years , including....
ACTION MAN - THE BRATZ - LARA CROFT TOMB RAIDER - ZERO HOUR - G I JOE ACTION FORCE - MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE - MIGHTY MAX - JOHNNY QUEST - MEGA
FORCE - POWER RANGERS - GHOSTBUSTERS - NINJA TURTLES - M.A.S.K. - TRANSFORMERS - BUTT UGLY MARTIANS - JUNIPER JUNGLE - PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN - DANGER GIRLS - DIGIMON - POWER PUFF GIRLS
- QUAKE 2 - BETTY SPAGETTI - WARNER BROS LOONEY TOONS - ROBIN HOOD PRINCE OF THIEVES - DANGER GIRLS and lots more .
My Children's Media work has featured in the creation of fifteen photostory comics adventures for Hasbro's Action Man products using Supermation Photography techniques .
Selling over 700,000 copies of the Summer and Winter Specials Action Man Comic which featured my fifteen photostories specially created with Hasbro's Action Man Childrens product .
The studio also created over sixty cover shots for the monthly Action Man Comic , together with over two hundred poster pictures during the eight years I worked for Marvel Comics UK / Panini
Comics UK / Hasbro Toys UK .
In the Greetings Card Industry I created seven very successful supermation style Action Man Birthday Cards designs for the UK based Company GEMMA CARDS , together with realistic photography of
Action Man for the Book Annuals published by PEDIGREE BOOKS .
My Exhibition Photography Media Advertising work has featured in the promotions for Gerry Anderson's "SPACE CITY EXHIBITION" and also BBC Television's "DR WHO EXHIBITION" in Blackpool , Lancashire
, England in the nineteen seventies .
The TPD Studio's Visual PhotoDesign work with my photography has appeared for the following Companies Products in Children's Comics and Newspapers / Magazines ......MARVEL COMICS UK , PANINI
COMICS UK , HASBRO TOYS UK , MATTEL TOYS UK , TOONTASTIC COMICS , CARTOON NETWORK COMIC , WARNER BROS LOONEY TOONS COMICs , BUTT UGLY MARTIANS COMIC , TRANSFORMERS COMIC , NINJA TURTLES COMIC , GEMMA
CARDS INTERNATIONAL , LUCKY BAG COMIC and PEDIGREE BOOKS ACTION MAN ANNUAL , THE BRATZ MAGAZINE for TITAN Magazines , FIRST LEISURE CORPORATION , EMI , The Blackpool Tower and Winter Gardens Company
, Blackpool's North and Central Piers , TRUST HOUSE FORTE HOTELS AND LEISURE CENTRES , NATIONAL SAVINGS , together with many , many more....
In 2012 - 2014 following on from my work with Marvel Comics UK , Action Man Photostory Specials , I started the development work to create my own new SUPERMATION PHOTOSTORIES CONCEPT for an
original story idea that would be made at my studio in Lancashire , England .
This new direction for my studio would be created over a six year period alongside my normal Toy Industry Advertising Product Photography .
The new concept would eventually move into SEASTAR 5 INVADERS FROM THE ABYSS , following a pilot production concept photostory called SEASTAR ONE .
Over the six years of production on SEASTAR 5 a total of fifteen illustrated episodes for the series were created at my Lancashire Studio with storyboards , model
animation characters designs with images and the creation of model sets with vehicle miniatures .
These have now been brought together into a new visual format of initially three episodes which are now being published in the UK in a new realistic photovisual style art format.
SEASTAR 5 INVADERS FROM THE ABYSS - THE STORYBOOK....Launched in February 2023 .
The first episode in an illustrated storybook version was first released in the Amazon Kindle Store as an EBook edition .
This first episode , " Strange Encounter " was also available in the Amazon Store UK and USA for worldwide purchase as a "Paperback Book Version" from their website .
Illustrated with "widescreen animation art style images" giving the reader a cinema style presentation in a book format .
We have now released an updated ComicBook Limited Edition for the first story in April 2024 and this is available on e/Bay UK as our first SUPERMATION COMIC BOOK Version of SEASTAR 5 INVADERS FROM
THE ABYSS . This release includes an article on " The Making of SEASTAR 5 " , showing some of the behind the scenes model animation original set designs and how some it was created in the studio
.
The first SEASTAR 5 INVADERS FROM THE ABYSS video storybook series promotional trailer , produced by UK Film Producer Simon Cox can be viewed on this website or on YouTube / Twitter .
The Supermation SEASTAR 5 Comicbooks Limited Edition are now available across Lancashire , England in five outlets so far - Lancaster - Preston - St.Annes on Sea - Blackburn .
The second and third books in the SEASTAR 5 Series are in production for a release in 2025 .
Beyond that I am developing two further creations of mine from pilot written stories into two further SUPERMATION ComicbookSeries .
These will start with Sci-Fi Space Adventure MAGNUS JONES AND THE STARJET RANGERS and then we will bring Time Travel Space Adventure STEAMBOAT JACK , which was recently seen by BBC Producers in
England into full production as supermation comicbook versions at my studio in the north west of England .
INTO THE SCI-FI MOVIE WORLD......
I also entered the UK Film Industry for the first time in 2020 to design and create eight individual studio sized miniature spacecraft models for a new British Sci-Fi Feature Film being
produced by Simon Cox called "Of Infinite Worlds".
As Production Designer Miniatures on this new movie I have achieved my ambition of working on feature films in the UK .
The movie is currently in production with live action filming now completed with Editing of the Movie begining.... a release of the film is due late 2025 .
Preview images for some of these space miniatures can now be viewed on this website .
Thanks for reading my History Career in the Media Business .
RICHARD DIXON
TPD STUDIOS UK .
LANCASHIRE , ENGLAND .
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