THIS WEBSITE WAS CREATED IN 2016 AS A SHOWCASE WEBSITE FOR MY TOY INDUSTRY ADVERTISING PHOTOGRAPHY , PHOTOGRAPHY AND MINIATURE PRODUCTION DESIGN FOR CHILDREN'S COMICS , MAGAZINES , GREETING CARDS , TOY PRODUCTS ADVERTISING , MINIATURES PRODUCTION DESIGN AND CREATION FOR INDEPENDENT FILM PRODUCERS AND TV COMPANIES IN THE UK .
THE WEBSITE COUNTER SHOWS THE RUNNING TOTAL OF VISITORS TO MY WEBSITE
This present website for my work has received over 319,000 viewers since it was created in 2016 .
Currently we receive over 2300 visitors each month to see my latest creative images together with my Studio Archives which come from my north west of England Studio .
IF YOU WISH TO CONTACT THE STUDIO ABOUT MY WORK SHOWN ON THE WEBSITE ......
PLEASE USE THE FOLLOWING STUDIO EMAIL
tpdnorthwest@outlook.com
RICHARD DIXON
TPD STUDIOS , LANCASHIRE , ENGLAND
Our design and photography services are available to Independent Film Producers , Directors and Publishing Companies , contact the studio email if you would like to chat , we would love to hear from you .....
2026...RICHARD DIXON WITH THE SUPERMATION COMIC BOOK 1 "STRANGE ENCOUNTER" EDITION .
....THE AMAZONSTORE PAPERBACK BOOK GRAPHIC NOVEL "STRANGE ENCOUNTER" EDITION .
........AND THE HARDBACK SUPERMATION LIMITED EDITION OF "STRANGE ENCOUNTER" .
ALL IN COMICBOOK SHOPS ACROSS LANCASHIRE ENGLAND .
......ALSO IN STORYTELLERS INC BOOK SHOP IN ST.ANNES ON SEA LANCASHIRE NOW.....
Toy Industry Advertising Photographer and Sci-Fi Author Richard Dixon in England is bringing his new second book PRINCESS FROM LEMURIA , from his undersea aliens adventure series in comicbooks to Book Stores across the country and the Amazonstore with supermation photomovie style adventures made at his studio in Lancashire .
THREE NEW PRODUCTIONS....SEASTAR 5 BOOK 2 PRINCESS FROM LEMURIA.....and SEASTAR 5 BOOK 3 SEAFIGHTER...MY MODEL SPACESHIP DESIGNS WILL APPEAR IN LATE 2026 IN UK PRODUCER SIMON COX'S NEW SCI-FI FEATURE FILM "OF INFINITE WORLDS" MADE IN ENGLAND....2026 IS THE YEAR SCI-FI GOES SUPERMATION IN COMICBOOKS AND MY WORK HITS THE BIG SCREEN....KEEP WATCHING THE WEBSITE FOR MORE UPDATES COMING SOON........
The Second Comicbook in the SEASTAR 5 series will feature a cover by UK Movie Poster and Commando Comic Cover Artist SIMON PRITCHARD......
The Third Comicbook in the SEASTAR 5 series is now in production with updates throughout the year on this website......
MANTA-X-RAY is coming to SEASTAR 5 in 2026.....Book 3 in the series will feature a cover by SIMON PRITCHARD . .
FROM UK PRODUCER SIMON COX....OF INFINITE WORLDS...CREATED IN THE UK AND ARRIVING ON THE BIG SCREEN IN LATE 2026.....
"PRINCESS FROM LEMURIA" BOOK TWO - A RICHARD DIXON PRODUCTION TPD STUDIOS UK .
The SEASTAR 5 Invaders from the Abyss sci-fi comicbook series was written by Richard Dixon in 2012 and then turned into a comicbook creation with fifteen episodes of stop motion style artwork . The series was released in a comicbook to shops in the UK and in the Amazonstore with "Strange Encounter" being episode one . The second episode "PRINCESS FROM LEMURIA" is due for release in full supermation edition in the Summer of 2026......
ART DIRECTION on the SEASTAR 5 SERIES is being created by Mat Dixon at TPD STUDIOS , based in Lancashire , England and he has been responsible for all location filming for the series in the UK and MAURITIUS , including undersea miniature supermation effects photography Directed by Richard Dixon .
OMANI HANMER - ONE HOPE ARTISTRY has created our character head faces designs from her studio in Cleveleys Lancashire . These character figures , with steel armatures for stop motion photography where built by Richard Dixon and his studio teams in England for the SEASTAR 5 SERIES for the supermation art creative design process at the studios in Lancashire England .
"PRINCESS FROM LEMURIA".....BOOK TWO IS ON THE WAY.....THE NEXT EXCITING PART TO THE NEW UNDERSEA SCI-FI COMICBOOK SUPERMATION SERIES WRITTEN AND CREATED BY RICHARD DIXON AT HIS NORTH WEST LANCASHIRE PRODUCTION STUDIO - DIVE TO THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA AS ALIEN INVADERS RETURN FROM THE STARS TO EARTH , IN A WAR BETWEEN THE LAND AND THE SEA PEOPLE....THE AGE OF DISCLOSURE JUST GOT REAL....
Richard Dixon's new undersea sci-fi comicbook series will now feature some of Simon Pritchard's artwork on the cover and inside the latest edition to the series....Princess from Lemuria is coming....sci-fi undersea never looked this way before....COMICBOOK ART MEETS SUPERMATION ART.....get ready for comicbook movie style adventure.....
Simon Pritchard will be bringing his superb art into Richard Dixon's new sci-fi undersea world of adventure in 2026 with his cover art and art features in the Princess from Lemuria Comicbook release from SUPERMATIONCOMICS.COM
Richard Dixon's new release will be arriving in a Comicbook , in a Magazine and in the Amazonstore from the Summer 2026.....
VISUAL IMAGES BEYOND THE IMAGINATION.....
Welcome to my history in the visual media business.....Photography , Art Design , Visual Production Design , across England and Beyond .
A journey from my early days in the 70's , 80's , 90's , 2000's in the Toy Industry and Childrens Comics in the UK , to my latest photoart style Sci-Fi Supermation ComicBook Productions and Movie - TV miniature model design for Independent Producers and Production Companies.....all created across my studios in the northwest of England .
Come take a look at the various pages on the website and see a showcase of my work from the last fifty-five years across visual photography and model set production design work created in Lancashire England .
RICHARD DIXON PHOTOGRAPHY
TOY PHOTO DESIGN STUDIO SUPERMATIONCOMICS.COM
TPD STUDIOS LANCASHIRE UK
You can also find me and my work on the following digital platforms.....
X TWITTER....INSTAGRAM...THREADS AND ALSO FACEBOOK AND DEVIANT ART PLATFORMS.....
ZERO HOUR MONORAIL SET IN ACTION....COMICBOOK PHOTOADVERT - CREATED FOR BLUEBIRD TOYS AND MATTEL TOYS BY RICHARD DIXON TPD STUDIOS LANCASHIRE ENGLAND 1990-1991 .
We will begin the journey .....back to the year 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 , 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 2,300 viewers each month to see my current work projects together with my Picture Archives .
The current viewing figures for the website since 2016 are now over 319,000 .
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 over the thirty five years my Studios worked for Companies across the Children's Media and the UK Toy Industry.
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 working across seven of my production studios based in the northwest of England , 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 .
I also created two pilot fully storyboarded supermation ideas with sample photography during this period .
THE BRATZ PHOTOSTORY PIRATES ADVENTURE....and "BATTLE FOR ETERNIA" a stop motion style MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE PHOTOSTORY PILOT .
These two productions did not go through to production as both magazines for these products were cancelled by the Publishing Companies at the time....just weeks before the two productions were due to be filmed....they would have been something to see if they had been made......
However a lot of the preparations work was then regrouped and I started writing again...after seeing some old TV episodes of Stingray , Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea and James Cameron's THE ABYSS movie my ideas started to go towards the creation of an undersea adventure idea.....people from under the sea living there from Earth's past in secret.....
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 movie style art format under SUPERMATIONCOMICS.COM worldwide with sales also now on E/Bay UK for international buyers .
SEASTAR 5 INVADERS FROM THE ABYSS ....Launched in February 2023 on Amazon Kindle and then a paperback Book version was released in the amazonStore UK ..
The first SEASTAR 5 INVADERS FROM THE ABYSS video promotional trailer , produced by UK Film Producer Simon Cox can be viewed on this website or on YouTube / Twitter was also released across social media platforms .
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 .
We have also released a Paperback Book Edition in the AmazonStore UK.....and an E-Book Edition on AmazonKindle and some Samsung Phones and Tablets .
INTO THE SCI-FI MOVIE WORLD......IN 2025.....
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 in late 2026 .
Preview images for some of these space miniatures can now be viewed on this website .
BACK INTO THE FUTURE WITH TPD STUDIOS IN 2026 AND BEYOND
My work at the present continues with Advertising Projects and work for Independent Film Productions in the UK , together with projects for SUPERMATIONCOMICS.COM my new publishing production team based at TPD STUDIOS Lancashire , England .
Current productions based at my Studio feature my new movie artstyle comicbook productions with images created in supermation movie style comicbook stories of sci-fi adventures....
SEASTAR 5 BOOK TWO "PRINCESS FROM LEMURIA".
The latest edition has taken a lot longer to create then was planned as new style character creations have involved extensive building of steel armatures for the large cast of stop motion puppets used in the production process , but we are finally near to the completion of the filmed sequences and its looking very special....2026 is going to be the year of release on this one...
Book 2 Princess from Lemuria will also contain a preview of Book 3 SEASTAR 5 SEAFIGHTER by UK MOVIE POSTER and Commando Comic Cover artist SIMON PRITCHARD .
Also coming is a larger SEASTAR 5 Special Editon Version in an A4 format magazine release....
TPD 21 CENTURY MAGAZINE later in the year....
This special edition magazine will include the complete Book 2 Princess from Lemuria....and an extensive feature on the MAKING OF SEASTAR 5 THE SERIES .
THE WORLD OF SEASTAR 5 will be another feature in the magazine...a photo gallery look at the future world where the story takes place .
In our first magazine release special....we are also looking at showing for the first time the complete initial chapter for MAGNUS JONES STARCOMMANDO.....our space sci-fi adventure concept idea....
......presented in full supermation movie retrostyle artwork created by UK MOVIE POSTER AND COMMANDO COMIC COVER ARTIST SIMON PRITCHARD .
FUTURE ITEMS CONTINUE TO BE DEVELOPED BY RICHARD DIXON'S TPD STUDIOS.
Space Time Travel Sci-Fi Series , "JETBOAT JACK" .
This production is being written with photography created from images we shot on the Island of Mauritius , together with further images being filmed at TPD STUDIOS Lancashire England .
This story is based on a concept animation idea that was shown to the BBC TV a couple of years back when we made them a presentation which at the time did not proceed....since then we have developed it further into a comicbook pilot idea which we will release some images to the website later in the year .
Thanks for reading my History Career in the Media Business .
RICHARD DIXON
TPD STUDIOS UK .
LANCASHIRE , ENGLAND .
RICHARD DIXON
SUPERMATIONCOMICS.COM
LANCASHIRE , ENGLAND .
STARTING THIS MONTH ON THE STUDIO HOME PAGE WE ARE SHOWING TWO ACTION MAN PHOTOSTORY STYLE ADVENTURES WE MADE FOR MARVEL COMICS UK - PANINI COMICS UK - HASBRO TOYS UK.....
WE HOPE YOU ENJOY SEEING THESE.......
This story is copywrite MARVEL COMICS UK - PANINI COMICS UK - HASBRO TOYS _ 3D LICENSING UK .
THIS PHOTOSTORY ADVENTURE IS COPYWRITE MARVEL COMICS UK AND HASBRO TOYS UK .
MADE AT TPD STUDIOS LANCASHIRE UK BY RICHARD DIXON .
SUPPORT SERVICES FROM MARVEL UK TEAM AND HASBRO TOYS UK .
THIS WAS THE THIRD ACTION MAN PHOTOSTORY ADVENTURE.......
OF INFINITE WORLDS - A SIMON COX PRODUCTION ALPHASTAR PRODUCTIONS NUNEATON , WARWICKSHIRE , ENGLAND .
All copywrite on these images by Simon Cox AlphaStar Productions 2023 .
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