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This present website for my work has received over 279,000 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 .
Above artwork poster......ORIGINAL POSTER ART CREATED FOR SEASTAR 5 BY CONNOR MAGILL - NORTHERN IRELAND DIGITAL ARTIST .
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 SUPERMATION COMICBOOK SERIES
A new sci-fi underwater adventure series in a new supermation comicbook format....made in Lancashire , England .....
Our new comicbooks are created in a realism art format with super realistic photostyle backgrounds beyond the imagination .
Initially we are making three books for a release for SEASTAR 5 INVADERS FROM THE ABYSS.....in 2024 and into 2025 .
These new supermation comicbooks are based on Richard Dixon's original SEASTAR ONE project fifteen episode picture book series which was released to the Studio's website in 2019 . We did not
publish a print version of that original series which was later created into the new supermation version of SEASTAR 5 using our new artwork process .
THE SUPERMATION PRODUCTION PROCESS
Our new SUPERMATION RETROART PROCESS for SEASTAR 5 INVADERS FROM THE ABYSS in 2024 now uses Maquette Original Figurines Character Designs in our photography art 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 , which gives
realistic looks for our initial photography for the supermation storyboards creation plan process for the series .
With the storyboards made we then create an artwork A3 sized print ....these images are then painted with additional elements added....effects added...and some clothing parts added in a paste up
technique to give extra realism to the finished pictures .
All artwork images of characters are then blended into our animation sets which are a combination of model animation sets and artwork sets...all brought together on a animation stand rostrum set
up for final composite photography to produce the final comicbook style images for the publishing process to be carried out by a printing company .
Some of the backgrounds for this new series of comicbooks were created on location on the Island of Mauritius in the Indian Ocean in the nineteen eighties , they will stand in for our tropical
island locations of the Pacific Ocean in our book series .
The underwater photography was created by my self in the waters around the island when I went skin-diving there using a Nikon Nikonos underwater camera .
Thirty six underwater images from that time have now been printed as miniature backgrounds for a number of the vehicle model sets for the supermation series .
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.....and the third book in the series "LEMURIA STRIKES BACK" are being released in 2025....stay tuned to the website for release dates.....
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 of 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 .
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 late 2025 .
Preview images for some of these space miniatures can now be viewed on this website .
BACK INTO THE FUTURE WITH TPD STUDIOS IN 2025 AND BEYOND......
My work at the present features new items coming soon into my world of supermation comicbooks.....
SEASTAR 5 PRINCESS FROM LEMURIA.....BOOK TWO....ARRIVES IN 2025 .
SEASTAR 5 LEMURIA STRIKES BACK.........BOOK THREE...ARRIVES DECEMBER 2025 .
FUTURE PRODUCTIONS IN DEVELOPMENT AT TPD STUDIOS
STEAMBOAT JACK - TIME AND SPACE ADVENTURE COMICBOOK IN DEVELOPMENT .
MAGNUS JONES AND THE STAR RANGERS - SUPERMATION COMICBOOK IN DEVELOPMENT .
STARCRUISER 2525 - ANIME SUPERMATION COMICBOOK EXPERIMENTAL ART IN DEVELOPMENT .
Thanks for reading my History Career in the Media Business .
RICHARD DIXON
TPD STUDIOS UK .
LANCASHIRE , ENGLAND .
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